the Bush administration's attempt to articulate a worldview is worth quoting in full:
The concept of `free trade' arose as a moral principle even before it became a pillar of economics. If you can make something that others value, you should be able to sell it to them. If others make something that you value, you should be able to buy it. This is real freedom, the freedom for a person-or a nation-to make a living.(William Finnegan- "The Economics of Empire")
Forget freedom of speech, press or religion. The only "real freedom" is commercial freedom.
Freedom is all about the buy and sell (who knew Ebay junkies realize one of the big secrets to life?)
....Whatever will get you to worship at the alter of Consumerism.
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