* I'd say NO there wasn't any capitalism but an oligarchic tyranny. And I say there wasn't even that. The other kids didn't complain about being excluded, because they weren't excluded. The teachers decided that their disinterest was evidence of their oppression. The kids who thought up the idea of...

You're focusing on everything but the point you're wrong about. Marxism is just a small subset of Communism - and even Marxism doesn't require that governments be overthrown, although it's seen as very likely. All sorts of communes have been attempted without overthrowing anything - violently or oth...

JohnyMcmuffin wrote:Which is what he said on the next line

No. He said that communism requires the violent overthrow of a government, which it does not. And that was specifically a communist system, not merely a socialist one.

Means of production is walking to the Lego bucket. No one owned that. Ergo, not capitalism. Exchange of goods occurred over compromises over space in the town. When the kids began selling space in exchange for a convertible currency, then I will grant that's capitalism. Simply coming to a consensus...

So, essentially, what happened was the children, on their own, built up a capitalist society No. There were no exchanges of goods, no means of production to be owned, no profit. The only 'ownership' was of the things that had been built. The adults did some exercises that helped them realize that t...

proudfoot wrote:I'm a sociologist.

Yep. It's a problem.

I don't think you understand my meaning. You have a problem with inconsistency in your positions.

proudfoot wrote:systematic inequalities could arise so easily and be treated as natural.

I think you have a little problem there.

It's utterly fascinating to me to see how many different ideas about what the thesis of the piece are, what its interpretation should be, and how various people respond to it.

The shirt is the diagram from "Talk Like A Pirate" showing the location of the thromborax.

Why We Banned Legos

I would be interested in your thoughts.

empath wrote:Gawd, so if Jester's Mr(?) Crocker, Lavos is the media muckrackers; does that make me....Brittney Spears?!?

Well, now that you mention it, every time you've gone out for a night on the town, you've neglected to wear panties.

I think that about covers it.

I vote for dancing to a totally inappropriate tune, like All Shall Fade from LoTR.

It's the diagram showing where the 'thromborax' is from "How To Talk Like A Pirate".

Actually, I am rather annoyed that Allen! posted some kind of trollish, sexual message in the thread about the lunar eclipse. And that he keeps telling everyone what to do without having (as far as I can determine) any granted authority to do so. And that he's incredibly annoying, like Lavos, but do...

King Kool wrote:Yes, but I've been watching since November. There's so many other people who are greater authority on LRR than me.

When a new video comes out, you're just as much an authority on the subject as someone who's been watching since LRR began.

In short: edit the Wiki already.

It's the color of Earth's sunsets and sunrises, reflected back at us.

It's so beautiful... no words... they should have sent a poet...

King Kool wrote:I feel strange making the articles, expecially not being an authority on LRR.

You watch the videos. How much more of an authority can you be? The cast has said they won't do it.

Starman.

It has Karen Allen, Jeff Bridges, and haunting electronic music. What's not to like?

What are two ways your life has improved since you left high school?

It starts about 25 minutes from now, at 6:45 EST PM.

Heads up to everyone on the East Coast.

My army of fact-checkers will destroy you.

Y'know, no one's forcing you to do business with Sony.

Don't buy their products. Eventually someone will come out with a cheaper, simpler, better alternative. Buy that person's products.

Look, it doesn't take much work to create a video page. You can just open the editing window for an existing video page, copy everything, paste it into the editing window for the new video, then change all of the specific data to match the new one. It takes very little time. Most of the time is take...

If the only good to come of this thread is the phrase "pulling a vanHumbeck" to stand in place of slacking off and not doing something, I consider it a victory. "I helped my uncle Jack pull a vanHumbeck." No, thank you. Let us instead bury this phrase in the deepest recesses of ...