Yay Capitalism!

I'm all for the rampant
indulgence in society,
at least when it comes
to things that don't
really matter.

I'm all for people
buying things that
will actually make
them happy, and not
just serve as some
psychotic status marker.

I'm all for a market
that allows for an
open exchange of
information and ideas,
in whatever form
they take.

I'm all for capitalism,
the idea, which seems
to me a better one
than communism, which
is why I think we ought
to lay off of Joe McCarthy
after all these years,
at least for the principals
he defended, if not
the extreme methods
he pursued.

To recognize not
just a threat but
a terrible way
to run a society
is a basic tenet
of democracy, something
that exports as well
as imports, and while
it's not an ideal,
it's a reflection
of a free will state
we have all lived in
from time immemorial.

I'm all for trying
to make things better.