Pardon me for bringing up issues which people would rather not talk nor even think about. We have largely become a nation of resigned wimps who accept whatever gets tossed our way. This is just South Korea. And before that there was the economic bailout of Thailand, the Philippines, Mexico, etc. Isn't it even more astounding, that in a global economy where capitalism purports to glorify the free marketplace, allowing unsuccessful competition to fall by the wayside, the IMF produces socialistic bailouts of failed capitalist ventures.
Countries are, after all, large corporations.
There I go again. Pardon me for not talking about the Chargers' football game, or the Packers for that matter. Benjamin Barber is a social critic and Director of the Rutgers University Walt Whitman Center. For that matter, pardon him. Barber expressed his fear, not that people will continue to buy and consume but, rather, that this will become all they believe there is.