The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55309   Message #862784
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
09-Jan-03 - 12:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Any conservatives on Mudcat?
Subject: RE: BS: Any conservatives on Mudcat?
But why not share things? We're all one family.
Why make life so complicated and mean, like an updated version of Gradgrindery. (And Gradgrind, from Dickens Hard Times, was a parody of the 19th century liberals who thought everything had a price.)

A society that doesn't see excessive inequality as fundamentally undesirable is fundamentally anti-human. That's the idea behind the ancient Judaic concept of having a process of Jubilee every few years, when all the debts are wiped out, and we all start out even again. Essentially that is a very conservative concept, asnd none the worse for that.