<p>let’s just say I criticized Christian Conservatives in terms of their advocacy of Intelligent Design and I got in, thus I think, so long as your point is valid, they won’t care too much ;)</p>
<p>I wrote an essay basically criticizing capitalism and applauding Marx’s ideals on complete equality (and I still got into Stanford SCEA). If you really are a poltical idealist, then I’m sure your essay about communism will show passion, which I think adcom’s desire most. Besides, I doubt people in academia (esp. Princeton) will automatically sneer at different viewpoints i.e. communism. Good luck!</p>
<p>How can you seriously preach about “total equality” through your “communist-anarchist” (bullsh it) theories while applying to an elite university; an act that embodies the pursuit of success and self fulfillment which is only attainable in a non-communist system. </p>
<p>Your ignorance is embarrassing. </p>
<p>Withdraw your apps, better yet, if you get in, give your place in the class of 2010 to the guy who pumps your gas. Then go live in a commune, you idiot.</p>
<p>wow, a lot of immature people on this forum that clearly don’t get the point of my post. how can you get so defensive when i haven’t done anything to offend…i am expressing my views, they are ideals, and not practical at society’s current state. i think both of you need to grow up and chill out. moderator please close this thread because it’s clear that some cant handle it.</p>
<p>by the way, im cal-invite in counter-strike</p>
<p>Golly.</p>
<p>Can’t we just be friends</p>
<p>haha im not rebelling against anything, the fact you call me a “****ing idiot” and “moron” and tell me to “go jump off a bridge” because of my opinions makes me laugh at you. you need to calm down, i’m mailing you some prozac right now.</p>
<p>Somebody needs some head… Golly…</p>
<p>Please tell me Mr. Panties in a Bunch (mjr02002) that you are not going to Princeton?</p>
<p>Suburban anger is just so funny!</p>
<p>The following quotes may be useful:</p>
<p>"An orphan quote [unattributed quote in search of a home] sometimes attributed to Georges Clemenceau is:</p>
<p>Any man who is not a socialist at age 20 has no heart.<br>
Any man who is still a socialist at age 40 has no head.</p>
<p>The most likely reason is that Bennet Cerf once reported Clemenceau’s response to a visitor’s alarm about his son being a communist:</p>
<p>If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him.
If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then."</p>
<p>yes, the saying goes that everyone is a socialist until they are around 30. then we all learn that we cant change anything, so we just sit back and conform to capitalist life. i cant wait till Mr. Panties in a Bunch (kudos to cityknight) starts flipping out at this one…grow up my friend, they are just views, no need to get irate like an immature little hothead.</p>
<p>Truth is one, the wise call it by many names.</p>
<p>i welcome the tranformation of this thread into a political debate, here is one of my views: why are people so concerned about who is elected president of the US? why should it matter? why should ONE man have so much power to change the entire status of the US in the world? IMO, this is an example of an intrinsic fault in the structure of our government. When people asked me Kerry or Bush, I said neither of them…one man should not matter so much in our government. But it does, since this one man selects everyone and basically determines whether the US gov. on the whole is liberal, conservative, or moderate. It should be the people that decide…there will always be differing opinions and everyone is never going to be content. Regardless of who is “President” the views of the US should remain the same since the people are remaining the same.</p>
<p>1337haxo0r, the president does have a lot of power, but not as much as you make him out to have. You’re completely ignoring the other two branches of government. The president cannot determine whether the US government as a whole is liberal, conservative, or moderate because he does not control major policy decisions, Congress does. The president is most often in the spotlight and definitely gets the most publicity, but most of what goes on in Washington is not the president’s doing. I really think the system we have is pretty good, considering.</p>
<p>By the way, if you’re planning to go into economics, please don’t write that essay :)</p>
<p>99% of Princeton applicants are rich kids. Of course you all are gonna like the system, and they probably will too, regardless if you disagree with the guy, you have no right to disrespect his views. </p>
<p>His desire to work for change from within is admirable, and while the rest of you facists can throw your silver spoons at us, some folks want change. I’m not for overthrowing the system, but most people believe in change, the sad fact is that those in power want to keep the power, so they have a fundamental stepping stone they must overcome if they want to make the world a better place: their selfishness.</p>
<p>This is Princeton, the spirit of Woodrow Wilson lives on. If the guy had a bit less of a temper, and wasn’t a complete racist, he would be considered one of the greatest presidents of the United States. He was an idealist who recognized the need for global change. The comments with ad hominim attacks have no place in the growth of our nation, and without respect for our fellow human beings and the ability to set aside selfish desires and work for a better nation, we are nothing. </p>
<p>Cmon, we all did the Princeton essays. How are you working in the service of all nations when you insult folk’s political views with out even listening… I’m not sure ya’ll really want to go to Princeton, or maybe if some of you really represent the Princeton spirit, they need to stop misrepresenting themselves as an institution in the service of the world.</p>
<p>no, im not going to princeton. Not the point…the point is that you two are morons. Communism does not work. It can’t work. It halts societies progress. It is absurd. Anybody with half a brain in this world knows this. My point still stands. Don’t try to go to an elite university so you can hopefully thrive in this system where the most talented and/or educated and/or hard working people succeed if you are so against it. Jump off a bridge and save us all from your dribble. I hate idealists…especially when they know and admit they are idealists but don’t realize how stupid it is to be one. </p>
<p>What you believe in is akin to saying “I’d like everybody to live like the royal family of England…and even though that isn’t possible I’m still going to believe in it.” The only difference is that your beliefs are a toned down version of the former and there are plenty of other morons out there like you so that you can validate yourself and feel like your ideas make some sense. Newsflash: they don’t.</p>
<p>ok Mr. Panties in a Bunch, then you can politely disagree rather then start cussing and flipping out like the loser you are.</p>
<p>I’m glad that kid isn’t going to Princeton.</p>
<p>I agree that the political system known as communism is an impractical goal for humanity, and I don’t believe that it will ever be properly applied. HOWEVER, just because I disagree doesn’t mean I don’t listen. Some people are smarter than me, so I gotta listen to what they say. </p>
<p>Mr. Panties in a Bunch, you have a bigger problem because you do not recognize that other people’s opinions are valuable. You probably think you’re smarter than everyone else, hell, maybe you are, but you sure don’t know everything. </p>
<p>I’m a poor white kid, I had a nice scholarship to a good private school for 8 years. Then I transfered to an inner city public school and the best part about the change is that I could experience the different worlds. I have a more complete perspective on the world, and that is because I was open.</p>
<p>Your arrogance typifies one of the biggest reasons our country is rotting from within, nobody is listening to anybody. </p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be more productive to make a coherent argument against the application of communism than to rant and rave and curse?</p>
<p>ok ok I have learned something here. I think communism is a wonderful idea. Lets all switch over. In fact I hope he gets into whatever school he wants and switches the whole campus over politically… unfortunately while you on this board are all kissing his PC butt I will be suffering in nashville in a materialistic free capitalistic society. Yes I will be tormented because I will miss the new concept never before spoken about debated or heard of…the new concept of communism. Please let me know if there are any books about this new idea- and by the way im sure it will be a grand success… I must go now my chilled white chardonay is waiting for me…</p>
<p>Logical argument:
Country C becomes communist. Wealth and wages are spread evenly. With equal wages, workers lose incentive to make good products. Products become shoddy. Standards of living drop.
Since they can’t really make any money, businesses completely stop R&D. Development stops. No progress is being made in technology, and everything produced is crap.</p>
<p>“Logical argument:
Country C becomes communist. Wealth and wages are spread evenly. With equal wages, workers lose incentive to make good products. Products become shoddy. Standards of living drop.
Since they can’t really make any money, businesses completely stop R&D. Development stops. No progress is being made in technology, and everything produced is crap.”</p>
<p>On some level, I agree, (Devil’s Advocate time) but your logical argument is pretty illogical: you are forgeting the last step</p>
<p>“they get tired of making crap, so they make better things so they live better”</p>
<p>they get tired of making crap,</p>
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<p>lol CityKnight. Individual people are going to work hard so that everybody benefits will never happen? Get over your crap. It doesn’t and won’t work.</p>
<p>Also, telling me that I’m not open to opinions when the only thing being discussed is communism is ■■■■■■■■. I have to believe that some idiots idealistic views that communism can work and is better than other current systems is “valuable” or else I have no perspective? Arguments like that have no meat to them. You can’t back up your opinion or anybody elses by saying that its “wrong” to not respect it. If I don’t respect it, then I don’t. Everybody is allowed to think for themselves. Don’t lecture me on argumentative methods when you are using even more shoddy methods to try and prove that I’m fundamentally flawed and what I say doesn’t matter just because I don’t respect the crap that you pull. Circular logic that demands the respect of your crap opinion doesn’t interest me.</p>
<p>This quote describes perfectly my feeling on communism:
“Communism is a very workable system. The only problem is that humans would be running the show.”</p>
<p>I have a strange theory that Illuminati and Freemasons are going to create a new world order… I wonder if I should write about that.</p>