No, it’s not a “humanitarian” crisis. It’s just another example of the inevitable failure of socialism.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Is “liberalism” creating a soulless monoculture?
There’s nothing liberal about it. It’s totalitarian.
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To a large degree I think the monoculture tendency is reinforced by global communications being accessible to everyone. There is a lot of herd behavior and pressure to conform. Back when we allowed pseudonyms and anonymous posts regularly in the Web (before Real ID became the norm) people were more free to express their opinions. This sometimes resulted in lunatic fringe comments. But it also gave a more wide spectrum of opinions. Often you saw better comments by anonymous people than from identified users. In particular in venues which did not have an established community to begin with.
One could counter this argument with the Usenet. There people usually used their Real ID. The thing is the Usenet was segregated by topic. It was a lot easier to self police. There were less people to police. And if the police became too oppressive we had the alt.* hierarchy. In effect often there were three degrees of policing: alt.*, the regular group, and the *.moderated group.
I tend to use pseudonyms in the Web. I find it removes useless distractions. I’ve even had my 15 minutes of fame with a couple of my pseudonyms which I do not use anymore (lost access to the e-mail account, or can’t be bothered to discuss in that topic or venue anymore).
I had a barrel of fun once when I visited a forum again, after not going there for 3 years, to find there was another user with the same pseudonym which imitated my comment style and even my personal tastes perfectly. It had a similar login system to this site. People did not even notice I was gone. That was both sad and amusing at the same time…
I do tend to keep to the same pseudonym in any given community though as it does facilitate discourse if people have some kind of prior working dialog.
Nonsense, it isn’t a humanitarian disaster or socialist apocalypse. Venezuelans have a magnificent society where they get to spend much of their time at home with family, meeting news friends in the que, and taking frequent vacations out of the country to purchase souvenirs.
And just think about how low their carbon footprint is.
Venezuela isn’t a socialist disaster, it’s an eco-friendly socialist utopia.
And as each week goes by, there will be more land per capita, less overcrowding.
And forward-thinking progressives like Obama and Queen Cacklepants want to make the US into Venezuela del Norte.