"It's the economy, stupid!"

I wouldn't call myself a communist. Not by a long shot. Communism, as the saying goes, doesn't even "work well in theory" in my opinion. But Capitalism sure seems to have some problems all it's own. I've taken macro and micro courses, and I know all about consumer motivation, supply and demand curves, and market equilibrium. It just strikes me that a lot of the factors that our economic models are based on are pretty screwy. Just in a common sense sort of way. Take the gas crisis right now (face it, that's what it is). OPEC has realized that our insatiable lust for oil means we will pay just about anything they are willing to charge. Meanwhile, the CEOs and CFOs, the CCOs and other assorted corporate executive blowhards at the four major oil companies still in power in this country all have each other on speed dial, all send their kids to the same five ultra-exclusive schools, and all still golf at the same five or six ultra-exclusive country clubs. At the highest echelons of our corporate economy, competition is a myth at best. Most people are aware of this. And I know that I am just as much a part of this system as everyone else. I know that I could stop shopping at Wal-Mart, convince everyone else I've ever met to do the same, and the result wouldn't amount a rounding error on Wal-Mart's end of year profit report.

Oh, fuck it. I'm just as bad a the rest of you.

You're getting predictable.