Another important strand of ET thought is that we're not productivists: There is a level of economic activity that would satisfy us, and it is for most of us somewhat below the current level of economic activity in The West^TM - or at least not greatly beyond it. Contrast this with the prevalent productivist ideologies that form the accepted political spectrum - the mainstream Left is just as insistent in its cries for MORE! as the Right, although it couches its voracity in somewhat softer tones.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.