When you try to think about things like thinking and understanding words start to get in the way and spin you off into paths irrelevant. At the bottom of such meta-thinking is the feeling that this is a maze with no finish, a puzzle with no solution. The trap of recursion. A mysterious place of space and time and the collision of atoms.
Recarving Rushmore Tuesday, Apr 7 2009
Everthing weird 3:43 am
Recarving Rushmore: Books: The Independent Institute
Recarving Rushmore
Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
By Ivan ElandHighlights | Synopsis | About the Author
Highlights
* U.S. presidents who are regarded highly by historians, journalists, law professors, and the public often fare poorly when we consider the ill effects of their policies or their unfaithfulness to the Constitution. A new ranking of the presidents—one that focuses on how effectively they advanced peace, prosperity, and liberty within the limits of their constitutional powers—virtually turns upside down those rankings that praise a president because he was a charismatic leader, a good manager, or served during a time of national crisis. Figuratively speaking, Ivan Eland’s Peace, Prosperity and Liberty (PP&L) rankings show that recarving Mount Rushmore is long overdue.
NewOrder – computer security and networking portal Thursday, Mar 5 2009
Everthing weird 3:29 am
Testing out Flock and its integrated blogging feature.
http://www.cypherpunk.at/onioncat/
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Paul Avrich Dead Anarchists Friday, Jun 27 2008
Everthing weird 2:14 am
interventricular septum Friday, Feb 29 2008
Everthing weird Anatomy, Heart, Medicine 12:11 am
Here’s a good drawing of the inter ventricular septum, which is what ruptured in David’s case
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The Myth of Natural Law Friday, Feb 15 2008
Anarchy and History and Law and Philosophy and Politics and Society 2:53 am
A well argued treatise on the fallacy of libertarians claims of “Natural Law”
If there were human natural rights like the law of gravity, we would have figured that out all ready. A good read.
War Crimes Saturday, Jan 12 2008
History and Law and Philosophy and Politics and Society ethics, History, Morality, People, Society 9:35 pm
The man who dropped the bomb on Japan recently passed on into that black infinity that he sent so many innocents to. He took full responsibility for the bombing , so would he take the same responsibility if it turns out that it was a war crime? Interesting question. One man has the moral reasoning ability to determine if he performed an unjust act by pulling the triggger. More than 100,000 people perished that day and the weeks and months that followed. If the blast didn’t vaporize you then the radiation poisoning surely did. The bombing was unnecessary ans Japan was about to surrender. So was it a war crime? I think so.The Man Who Bombed Hiroshima.
The Aim of Anarcho-Syndicalism Friday, Mar 23 2007
Anarchy and Law and Politics and Society Anarchy, Society 11:36 pm
“At the heart of the failing of our rich and bloated society is lack of democratic control of the economy. Sure, we can elect useless politicians, but we have no say as to what or how we produce as a society.
Anarcho-syndicalism seeks to overcome this most basic of failings, by striving for a society based on democratic control of the economy. We seek a society based on workers’ control, under which the economy is seen both as a means of fulfilling our collective and individual needs, and ensuring that everybody has a say in how society is run. Until that time comes, we may be getting richer as a society every year but, under capitalism, that simply means producing crap to make the rich richer, in a society deprived of any real humanity.”
The truth is junk sells, and all the more so if it’s shiny! Thats at all levels. Materialism is a disease that is progressive and destructive. It is a circle that eats it’s own tail or falls into itself.
Saving the past. Friday, Feb 23 2007
CBC.ca Arts – Old China bulldozed amid rapid building boom
This is a symptom of a new pace in a society that wants progress at any cost. The cost are high because if we do not take enough time to look behind and treasure the past we are bound to experience and suffer the same effects of our mistakes again and again. The comparative cost of building a building and preserving the past is indeed high on both sides but it is more important to keep our ancestor’s burying grounds, and such things that are buried in the past, safe from the greedy wrecking ball. There is much to be learned from discoveries such as 700 ancient burial sites on a construction site in China.
Insane leaders Tuesday, Feb 20 2007
“All democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it; none but the republicans and mugwumps know it. All the republicans are insane, but only the democrats and mugwumps can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”
Mark Twain
–What Is Man and Other Philosophical Writings
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Whether the dems or the gop notices it, I hope the American peopla can see it. Our leaders are insane. They have let their self interest override their commitment to the people for whom they serve. This lust for power and its evil companion greed has led our leaders to the brink of the abyss. Both for themselves but also for the end of humankind. It can happen to us. We must learn to live in peace with a cooperative institution based on fair and equal rights for all men.
