[MD] socialism

[Platt Holden]

Now let's hear from that empty sloganeering, talk-radio parroting, rambling 
bearded lunatic with a Messianic complex, Mr. Robert M. Pirsig:

"A free market is a Dynamic institution. What people buy and what people 
sell, in other words what people value, can never be contained by any 
intellectual formula. What makes the marketplace work is Dynamic Quality. 
The market is always changing and the direction of that change can never be 
predetermined. The Metaphysics of Quality says the free market makes 
everybody richer by preventing static economic patterns from setting in and 
stagnating economic growth. That is the reason the major capitalist 
economies of the world have done so much better since World War II than the 
major socialist economies." (Lila, 17)

Those claiming to be Pirsigians who continue to support  the beneficent 
wonders of socialism are quite obviously in a state of catatonic denial.

Platt