[christophilus]

That sounds to me like no true Scotsmanship.

[lostlogin]

The 'But communism polluted us too" comments here are a touch too defensive, and I don't get the point.

[revolvingocelot]

It's a thought-terminating cliché that has the useful side effect of getting everyone to talk about the sociopolitics of authoritarism or the Cuban Missile Crisis or anything other than the fact that modern industrial society doesn't have to be as polluting as it is.