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Honk for the Revolution!
On Oct 23, 3:51 pm, Wilson wrote:
"TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher" wrote: On Oct 23, 2:58 pm, Wilson wrote: "TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher" wrote: On Oct 23, 6:13 am, noname wrote: Is it better to have a tyrant of flesh and blood? Probably; a flesh-and-blood tyrant is easier to remove. And that's because the tyrant is not so well camouflage. In capitalism they eat you, but you are "free," whatever that means. For example I'm free, but not free from Florida Power & Light. Corporations are running the show instead of a strongman. No one forces you to have electric service. You wiped out the last people in America that wanted to live off the grid... the Indians. Oh please. Neither myself nor my ancestors were involved in that genocide. So your attempt to inculcate some guilt here has fallen a bit short. I can see you ain't got much sympathy for who want to be off the grid. You haven't even addressed the issue of how to ride a bike on our chaotic roads. I think I'd commit suicide before going through this... "Living 'off the grid': Man loses job, wife, home, decides to bike across the world" http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll...728/-1/FOSNEWS Not because of the adventure itself but because all the hostility I've seen in people's faces and attitudes. "I've seen hate in their eyes," to quote something in the news describing a terrorist. |
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Honk for the Revolution!
On Oct 24, 1:11 pm, Awaken21 wrote:
On Oct 23, 4:18 pm, SG wrote: On Oct 23, 12:24 pm, Awaken21 wrote: On Oct 22, 10:43 pm, Wilson wrote: Wilson wrote: wrote: Wilson wrote: liaM wrote: Wilson wrote: liaM wrote: Freedom is the solution. More power for the regulators is just more power. Freedom has enslaved billions of people hidden away in sweat shops and hovels.. There is no enslavement in freedom. Yeah. It's hidden from your sight. Read Bonfils. You seem to be married to your biases. If power is the problem, increasing govenrment power will not fix things. -- Wilson Wrong truism. It's very accurate and appropriate. I'm in no way an objectivist, but this says it well: “When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you…you may know that your society is doomed.” — Ayn Rand Poor Ayn. That childhood in Russia ****ed with her head pretty seriously. Best debater perhaps ever though. Too bad so many of her assumptions fall apart in the face of reality cause to watch her argue for them, you wanted her to be right. A brilliant, brilliant woman...I haven't read Atlas Shrugged, only The Fountainhead. I wonder if both her and Nietzsche were abused as children to have such disconnection. I'm not sure if she was personally abused, but the things she went through under the Russian verson of a communist authoritarian government certainly put their mark on her psychologically for her whole life. Don't require a degree in the humanities to see it. The real item was another Russian, also anarchist, but social not antisocial like Ayn Rand: 'If we ... ask Natu "who are the fittest: those who are continually at war with each other, or those who support one another?" we at once see that those animals which acquire habits of MUTUAL AID are undoubtedly the fittest. They have more chances to survive, and they attain, in their respective classes, the highest development of intelligence and bodily organization.' -Peter Kropotkin http://www.marxists.org/subject/scie.../kropotkin.htm He is the inspiration for the Revolution. |
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