Bog & Mig - I'll try and get back out there this weekend to try and take some pictures of that place for you two (and anyone else interested).


 Originally Posted By: Sicilian Babe
LLC - For an interesting view on Communism, you should read Ayn Rand's We The Living. All about a Russian family immediately after the Revolution and the subsequent changes in government. It was Rand's first book and her philosophy was just beginning to emerge. Although it's fiction, Rand did live in Russia at that time, so much of it is autobiographical. Rand recreated the same characters over and over again in her books, and it's interesting to see Irina as the early version of Dagny Taggart of Atlas Shrugged. However, since this was her first book, Irina is more human, more accessible.


Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out. \:\)

I read The Communist Manifesto last year, to try and see if I could pinpoint where they just completely fucked up an essentially good idea. Aside from the obvious being that it's against human nature to find a society in which everyone wants to be homogeneous--that being, someone will hold ambitions to be a leader, and that person will also have ambitions to climb above the rest, negating the purpose of his society--I think communism just took it to extremes. I think socialism could work quite nicely though... Something of more of a common ground between Communism and Capitalism. As mentioned, the New Deal was essentially socialism, and that was probably one of the best (if not the best) economic plan/reform America has seen. I can't imagine how we would have recovered from the depression without it.

"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."