An example of a deep encounter

Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:11 pm » by **Edgarrothstein**

99socks wrote:
edgarrothstein wrote:
99socks wrote:
Was that a rhetorical question followed by a rhetorical answer?

Not really.. it's a feeling I've had for a while... How in our cultural cycle, things seem to flip from left and right and up and down and black and white in half the time it took the last cycle. And I think, if the worse we've seen so far in recent history is communism and THAT "only" lasted about 70 years, then even the NWO nightmare everyone dreads should be over in 30... Which means, there will still be a collective memory for people to use to rebuild something better....

Yeah. I too trust in human race.

Well there's communism and there's communism.
In former Yugoslavia, for example, wasn't really so bad. They used to have a loose-kind of communism + socialism. It was rather unique sort of political system, better described as Titoism.
You ask majority of people of my generation if they lived better in communism than in wild-west democracy + capitalism, which is a novelty for them. They'll say - yes.

Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:14 pm » by **99socks**

edgarrothstein wrote:
Yeah. I too trust in human race.

Well there's communism and there's communism.
In former Yugoslavia, for example, wasn't really so bad. They used to have a loose-kind of communism + socialism. It was rather unique sort of political system, better described as Titoism.
You ask majority of people of my generation if they lived better in communism than in wild-west democracy + capitalism, which is a novelty for them. They'll say - yes.

Sure... every locale has a different flavor. Yugoslavia wasn't like Cuba, and neither are like North Korea...

Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:20 pm » by **Edgarrothstein**

99socks wrote:
edgarrothstein wrote:
Yeah. I too trust in human race.

Well there's communism and there's communism.
In former Yugoslavia, for example, wasn't really so bad. They used to have a loose-kind of communism + socialism. It was rather unique sort of political system, better described as Titoism.
You ask majority of people of my generation if they lived better in communism than in wild-west democracy + capitalism, which is a novelty for them. They'll say - yes.

Sure... every locale has a different flavor. Yugoslavia wasn't like Cuba, and neither are like North Korea...

The system was pretty similar actually. Social security, free health insurance and stuff like that.

At least Tito and Fidel shared the same love :

They were rather popular duo...