Tuesday, October 25, 2005

George Soros from Atlantic Monthly, 1997

This is what George Soros believes and has spent millions if not billions of dollars for.

Our sense of right and wrong is endangered by our preoccupation with success, as measured by money.

Open Society – where rights of individual are safe guarded but shared values hold society together. Open society is middle ground between extremes such as Communism, and nationalism and laissez-faire capitalism. Open society improves the imperfect society by trial and error, insists on freedom of expression and protecting dissent.

Offers “limitless progress.” Open society must regard it's own shared values as a matter of debate and choice. The concept of “open society” must be the only absolute. Declaration of Independence should be revised so that instead of stating that “we hold these truths to be self-evident” it would acknowledge our fallibility. There is no ultimate truth; our beliefs are expressions of choice.

Laissez-faire incompatible with concept of open society and has effectively banished income or wealth redistribution

We have entered a period of disorder which laissez-faire is incapable of addressing.

U.S. and UK laissez-faire policies prevented open society development of Russia as well as reform and reconstitution of the United Nations.

No comments: