UCLA Professor Jared Diamond studied four civilizations that perished and three that survived. Diamond listed two choices that those societies which adjusted and survived made while those that failed did not: willingness to change core values and long term planning.
"The powerful culture wide taboo against discussing or analyzing the dynamics of our market economy will lead to the fall of our democratic civilization."
to read Doug Page's article published 9/20/2008, click on
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/cross-examining-capitalism
Original: Cross Examining Capitalism