James, ‘the Rich,’ and the Complexity Argument
http://www.empireremixed.com/2014/08/27/james-rich-complexity-argument/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+empireremixed+%28Empire+Remixed%29 August 27, 2014 by Brian Walsh (A meditation at on James 4.13-5.20 presented at Wine Before Beer on August 26, 2014.) You just don’t understand. You make these stark pronouncements as if the issues are simple, but they are not. This is a very complex situation. And your self-righteous moral pronouncements look like they are taking the higher ground but they are rooted in an arrogant ignorance. You don’t understand the situation, with its complex history. You don’t understand that if you start boycotting certain companies and products all kinds of people will get hurt. You don’t understand that this whole system is the only bulwark we have against utter chaos, a reverting back to the anarchy of tribe versus tribe. You may...