tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post1228926473119336232..comments2023-10-24T03:46:41.971-07:00Comments on Contingencies: Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-71300224161879083362009-08-27T16:12:15.742-07:002009-08-27T16:12:15.742-07:00Everything's far more fucked-up and pathologic...Everything's far more fucked-up and pathological than you realize, man. <br /><br />Maybe click down a few posts, and note new Thomas Pynchon manga. TP has a good insight into the workings of Pathopolis, superior to that of most philosophical wheezebags, techie-bottlewashers who think they are scientists, or the scores of HS Thompson imitators found on KOS. <br /><br />Try Crying of Lot 49 orJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-28940810971271987792009-08-27T14:25:15.162-07:002009-08-27T14:25:15.162-07:00"You misread your Demo leaders as well. Some ..."You misread your Demo leaders as well. Some may have a few authentic socialist desires, but most are party hacks working for various lobbies and special interest groups."<br /><br />Politicians should never be blindly trusted or worshiped as celebrities. They're all under constant pressure to use their power to favor their financial supporters. A few manage to retain sufficient Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01902187799552292369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-32537696273793127402009-08-27T13:59:20.647-07:002009-08-27T13:59:20.647-07:00Read some Rawls "Theory of Justice." On...Read some Rawls "Theory of Justice." One could, in theory, posit health care as part of a Rawls-like social contract, perhaps. If politicians were playing a type of sim-city--Rawlsland--, where they had to live in the society they chose to construct, they might choose to implement a type of socialism where medical care was provided to all equally. <br /><br />Sim-city is not the Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-74819633489166725192009-08-27T13:42:38.329-07:002009-08-27T13:42:38.329-07:00"I'm not defending Longism per se, but yo..."I'm not defending Longism per se, but your own gurus don't agree with you."<br /><br />The best kind of guru is one that mind you telling him to his face he's a frigging ass. LL can bite it on this one.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01902187799552292369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-68494756091030558722009-08-27T13:25:09.216-07:002009-08-27T13:25:09.216-07:00I would not call that natural rights (which is mor...I would not call that natural rights (which is more like Locke, or founding fathers), but a type of egalitarian-socialist view. Rights-philosophy and utilitarianism are not necessarily incompatible, anyway (ie a majority might vote for rights of various types--and have). <br /><br /> Even though people might start with natural rights to some activities (working, transportation, voting, etc), thatJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-5796793818277464502009-08-27T12:54:31.122-07:002009-08-27T12:54:31.122-07:00This sounds like nit-picking. The point I'm ma...This sounds like nit-picking. The point I'm making is that human lives shouldn't be valued the same way as personal property. I'm basing my ideas on the assumption that all lives are of equal value; which I have learned via feedback at Kos makes me a Natural Rights adherent rather than a Utilitarian. Stick the labels where you wish, but my basic point is that all humans value their Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01902187799552292369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-35993655860847246532009-08-27T12:41:10.731-07:002009-08-27T12:41:10.731-07:00Noted . However there have already been increases ...Noted . However there have already been increases in social programs with ObamaCo's victory so I suspect its probably close to that, if not less. <br /><br />Even if we grant that number's correct, that does not mean all these poor people have no medical care whatsoever--so the number's misleading. In CA there are county health care clinics up and down the state: even the illegal Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-14582327379778971412009-08-27T12:20:41.517-07:002009-08-27T12:20:41.517-07:00Posted. One of many I found with a quick google.Posted. One of many I found with a quick google.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01902187799552292369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-1267971081154431532009-08-27T12:07:51.747-07:002009-08-27T12:07:51.747-07:00Btw, McEnabler--
I posted a comment to your site ...Btw, McEnabler--<br /><br />I posted a comment to your site (now featuring the Subluxanator, Mormon socialist, and chiropractor supplies salesman!). Of course, since you don't care for reasoned dissent, it's not likely to appear, but here it is again:<br /><br /> WHERE is your source for the claim (rather egregious claim) that 47 million Americans have no health insurance of any type??<Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-240271340421290972009-08-27T11:18:18.669-07:002009-08-27T11:18:18.669-07:00Yes. The Annals of the Four Masters has a lot of t...Yes. The Annals of the Four Masters has a lot of that. But then so does much ancient history. Really, I'm not a sword and sorcery sort of person, and prefer modern history--say the absurdities of WWI and WWII--but ancients interesting, at least as evidence of pathology. <br /><br />The vikings or celtics seem fairly horrible until you read of the huns or mongols (--or, really stalinists and Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-17843873418634115212009-08-27T10:56:34.553-07:002009-08-27T10:56:34.553-07:00I read a great book a few years back though can...I read a great book a few years back though can't recall the title- a collection of Irish myths dating back to the dawn of recorded history. Fascinating the origins of "the little people" stuff.<br /><br />The thing that stuck most in my mind was the extreme violence endemic to almost every story. The old unveiling of the host's son's decapitated head at the banquet sort of Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01902187799552292369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-25697168772306731572009-08-26T14:25:11.283-07:002009-08-26T14:25:11.283-07:00Yes it's interesting. I haven't at all ma...Yes it's interesting. I haven't at all mastered irish history or gaelic but I have noted a few things when I have time to study this sh**t (an old professor pal of mine was sort of a specialist in old english and gaelic.) One, many of the names and places (like from Annals of the Four Masters): aren't really fixed until the scribes (mostly the priests) write the history down, like Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592514.post-7662122137342435092009-08-26T13:49:43.768-07:002009-08-26T13:49:43.768-07:00Good stuff. All this ancient clan stuff fascinates...Good stuff. All this ancient clan stuff fascinates me.<br /><br />One of the cunning ones, eh? Not cunning enough to avoid getting our asses kicked at Culloden. We coulda been contendahs!<br /><br />Not the first or the last time we backed the wrong nag. But we did it with spirit!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01902187799552292369noreply@blogger.com