To the slum dwellers, the beast isn't capitalism, it's that gnawing feeling in your stomach when you haven't eaten for a day. But Peter Buffett, who lives a life almost as privileged as Prince Charles, bemoans the idea of getting people to the point where they aren't worried about where their next meal is coming from because it just turns them into capitalists and consumers. And before you know it, they're buying big screen televisions and writing op-eds in the New York Times on the futility of philanthropy.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if for one week - just one week - liberal elite blowhards could live at the dump outside Managua Nicaragua and 'pick' along with the folks who live there?
Elite snobs do not need to share the plight of the poor from their limos. They need to be impoverished, starving, without friends or support. They must be genuinely poor. I believe that can be arranged.
A culture committed to morality will not support the purveyors of vulgarity. That will end this ridiculous reign of blathering imbeciles who want only for the culture to grind down to their level.