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RE: An extremist studying extremism (COINTELPRO #1)(Repost)
I don't consider you to be an extremist.
...a little bit left of me actually.
....quite a bit come to think...
I don't consider you to be an extremist.
...a little bit left of me actually.
....quite a bit come to think...
going by my Left-Right continuum, very much so...but I hope you agree I am still very Right of Center ;>
If I used the Left-Right continuum I would....
I dunno what I use but it's not that.
....which is MUCH too simple to describe a complex phenomena.
...The Pournelle Political Axis is better BUT.
....still...no cigar.
statism versus liberty...everything else is poli-navel-gazing ;>
Statism is insane and inherently violent. It's an attempt to force the less powerful to provide for the parasites. It all began with Noah's flood. The flood myth was caused by the melting glaciers at the end of the last global glaciation. Some folks found it easier to take rather than to make. To justify their violent behavior to themselves and others they invented religion , the divine right of kings and other nonsense.
Best they could do in a refugee environment with all their infrastructure and technology destroyed I suppose.
We have rebuilt the tech and infrastructure so should be able to do better now.
rent-seeking, government capture, the "Iron Law"...all pretty much dexcribe the same thing you are talking about
Rich also clued me into a nice study that desribed the "transition" of bandits into chiefs , maybe I'll remember the name. it's in my reference Db anyway
But there is a flip side of this...to of them, actually
the rent-seekers COULD NOT hold power if there wenn;t enough people who wanted to believe their lies
crazy isn't it?
oh wait...I went and mentioned religion again ...I'm sorry.
"pie in the sky by and by".
Psychic trauma from the horrible time of the Glacial Melting do you think?