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12 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - You Lie, Mr. President · 1 reply · -7 points
So therefore I would say Grady has a point, even if might be coming to his statements from other angles. It is a problem, when onesided blindness grasp hold of any society.
12 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - You Lie, Mr. President · 0 replies · +1 points
12 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - You Lie, Mr. President · 0 replies · +10 points
So therefore (without anyone seeming to think too much about it) a constant EXPANSION of empire of some sort (growing markets) are supposed to solve any problems. Yeah! So more light brings more to read, and more reading brings forward more inventions. But at some point more light does not make any difference. And at some point a bigger market might run into also more growing control and information collection. More administration. Military alertness. Need for spin. Than any one new customer added.
Now, the growth of derivatives the last decennium has been spectacular! Could be seen not just as a sign of greater wisdom etc., but more importance of being the first and fastest, because the markets get closed down ever faster for any special product. An attitude of "grab the money and run" far remote from visions of Ayn Rand and her entrepreneurs. And it is certainly NOT socialist nonsense, that brought forward the present reality controlled by spin and raw power. So scolding Wilson is to me another error, regardless of any shortcomings of marxist speculations. Like punishing the watch maker for setting the wrong time, when the world is burning.
12 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - You Lie, Mr. President · 1 reply · +11 points
12 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Libya, Libertarianism,... · 0 replies · 0 points
12 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Libya, Libertarianism,... · 0 replies · 0 points
12 years ago @ News From Antiwar.com - Obama Lauds 'Historic'... · 1 reply · +9 points
12 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Libya, Libertarianism,... · 3 replies · -2 points
The robots just follows some master spider. You really are a joke yourselves too, Antiwar.com with such a setup.
For myself I suppose with the above writing I irritate a lot of AR robots. And do they answer with reason? NO! Only with signals. Precisely the opposite also of AR's philosophy. I suggest you remove the possibility of *"signal" debate completely from your website! Send a missile to the signal robots, that they are below human dignity!
12 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Libya, Libertarianism,... · 4 replies · 0 points
And people programmed by her wisdom?
I was in on some courses by Leonard Peikoff. I think one was the seventh version of his "Objectivism". In that version it was above History. But at the same time he discovered etymology, and in the published book the claim of absolute truth had disappeared.
Nathaniel Branden had his own biographical real life problems which proved above "absolute truth".
Alan Greenspan became perhaps the most striking refutation of the premise, that with the rightt ones inside your mind, you become infallible and virtuous, incorruptible, honest or just respectable.
And for the free, self-regulating market itself, doesn't that PRESUPPOSE some sort of accountability for the players? Some laws or guidelines. Some means of enforcing those? Spin seems to me to have failed as another lacking method on the wrecked social road of regulations. For one: when ideas are not honestly presented, they do not get debated, nor the bad ones rejected, nor do the players become wiser of anything.
And the big world developer toolset set to sea especially by the Clintons - both legally, and heavily spinned - of globalism? The beauty for the politicians is, that it is based on irrefutable premises. And set to sea above regulations since it's domain is above any laws or regulatory enforcements.
Things that will become needed, or already is, are at least some reforms of democracy (Hoppe was a pioneer into that). I would say at least LONGER TERMS! So that issues become more principal and of lasting importance. No reelections possible (goodbye to most spin - I hope). Accountability of leaders and administrators. No swearing on the Bible is as good as certain punishment for illegalities, or lack of pursuing them. In fact in the old China, the local administrators were judges. They could order torture and death by 4 oxes drawing the prisoners arms and legs in opposite positions at the same time. BUT IF THEY EXECUTED AN INNOCENT MAN, THEY WERE THEMSELVES EXECUTED! So some carefulness and responsibility was ensured by social mechanisms.
12 years ago @ News From Antiwar.com - Lack of Goals, Debate ... · 0 replies · +2 points
And this equality between appearance and conviction is probably already in for "copyright pending". "Making the world greater and better" etc.
Sometimes one wishes for you parodies of humans (Americans) to make a big party and laugh yourselves to death. Absolutely insincere and falling for your own studied appearances, that would be a fitting departure from the earth for humans of such self-inflicted, unnatural, worthless self-degradation.