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neat, short article. i like this:
When you taste wine and you know the label and you know the price, you are going to be influenced by that. And when you are tasting wine in a blind way, now you don't have anything to base it on and you have to really use your senses.

I think the same thing happens with thoughts about just societies. When we are in the regular world, we are using our current position, our ideology and the labels that politicians give us, and they obscure reality and obscure what we really want.

But Rawls' definition really lets us strip all this away, lets us focus on what is really important and how people actually want something very different from what we have.
just about every good comedian has a rant about how the mass media (particularly in the US) feeds those who consume it how they are supposed to think. clearly, it works.

and i'd say more socialists than communists. ;)

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TC wrote: and i'd say more socialists than communists. ;)
Don't let any of my redneck Republican conservative neighbors hear you calling them socialist. Because "that's what Nobama's trying to do to us; take our guns and money and make us a socialist state."

I just looked at a graph of distribution of income from 2010 estimates. It showed that the threshhold for top 25% earning households was only $85,000, and the median household income was $50,000. I find it hard to comprehend that me and my wife make more than 75% of American households.
Yes, I know what it's like to be poor (we both grew up in welfare-drawing households), but it's incomprehensible to me that "We" are "the rich" that people are always complaining about around here. We have a shitty house, high-mileage cars (1993 and 2001 (yes, they're BMWs, but they're still old)), and a shit-ton of debt, and live paycheck to paycheck. I am sooooooooo NOT rich.
Are you propositioning me? I taste like candy and you want the recipe?