I was just reading an interview with a Republican when I spotted a sentence that perfectly outlines the American way of thinking. Enjoy:
"We should be trying to extract, in the most environmentally balanced way, ALL OF THE OIL AND GAS WE CAN in our state."
End of quote.
Taken from here: in english

It's amazing that of all prominent SF writers in the West not one came even close to what brothers Strugatsky depicted in their Noon Universe. How come all these sophisticated minds could come up with was a set of better technology, different political system, success in conquering other planets and contacts with aliens, but never a better human ( Read more... )

The idea that Soviet economy was no good is so wide-spread that if you want to find out some details about it you can't. As funny as it sounds, that's true: try looking up Soviet Economy in Wikipedia, and you will find a lot of baloney about how it didn't work because a Plan couldn't catch up with consumers' demand, and the 1930 - 1970 section ( Read more... )