Comments on: ‘Stuff’ is bad, kids learn

By: McSwain

McSwain — Sat, 16 May 2009 17:31:02 +0000

My thought was, “It couldn’t be THAT bad.”

And then I watched it. Wow.

By: Vandal Savage

Vandal Savage — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:35:02 +0000

It’s sad that children in the West are being openly told to hate Western civilization. And what alternatives do the people who make videos like these propose? They never offer *their* solutions… They just like to state what *they* view as the problem.

Using technology created by the Western civilization they so loathe. Ironic!

If they were to actually break down and tell us the whole truth of their beliefs, I wonder what proposals they would demand, what changes they demand be made to our daily lives? And would these proposals apply to them, too?

By: david foster

david foster — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:40:04 +0000

Heritage…”anti-capitalist propaganda”

In truth, this is not only anti-capitalist. A Soviet-era factory manager or economic planner would have been just as appalled at this as a 2009 American factory manager or a 1940 New Deal TVA official. So would a medieval peasant desperately searching for firewood to keep his family from freezing, or a medieval monk clearing land and building waterwheels in the intervals between his prayers.

Call it what it is: anti-civilization.

By: tim-10-ber

tim-10-ber — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:31:48 +0000

Still…consumerism as it has been known is probably gone for a generation or two. Welcome to the new reality…living below your income, no more debt and “the Jonese” who or what are they? Now to see how the country, states counties, cities, etc. adjust to the new reality….

By: david foster

david foster — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:16:52 +0000

The same “progressives” who perpetrate this kind of thing are probably the same ones who complain about the decline in “good manufacturing jobs for the middle classs”, never thinking that there might perhaps be a connection.

By: Dave J

Dave J — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:19:50 +0000

Gosh, kids! We should all live in caves and die of disease, starvation or exposure before the age of 40! Won’t that be great?!

You first!

By: Steven O'Toole

Steven O'Toole — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:15:43 +0000

That’s funny. I told my kid that the way to be a capitalist is to skip the toy, save your money, invest it in something that people really need, and get a good return. How did capitalism ever get equated with accumulating a lot of useless colorful plastic junk?