Reviews for The Paradigm of the New Activism

Reviews For: The Paradigm of the New Activism

Typewriter King
2006-11-28
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abuse“I think you’re overestimating both the importance of the right to the neocons, and the importance of the neocons to the right.”

That’s understating it, he’s a-talkin’ John Birch paranoid blues here:

Now Reagan, he's a Russian spy,

Clinton, Nixon and that Bush guy.

To my knowledge there's just one man

That's really a true American: Lew Rockwell.

I know for a fact he hates Neocon cus he picketed the show 24.

No Trust
2006-11-28
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abuseI think you’re overestimating both the importance of the right to the neocons, and the importance of the neocons to the right. The nationalist mythology existed long before the neocons did; they have only taken advantage of it and haven’t even done much to stoke it, unless you buy the 9/11 conspiracy theories. The fundy right’s obsession with their Blow Everything Up eschatology centered firmly on Israel is independent of and as deep as the neocons’ obsession with perpetual war for perpetual fascism, etc. The neocons would be just as at home on the left as the right if it ever came to parting company, and the right would be just as rotten without them as with them.

“Early Christians were brutally executed by the pagan rulers of Rome, until they converted to Christianity and began brutally executing the pagans.”

Pagan philosophers were making fun of Christians with impunity during and after Constantine.

“There’s an increasing problem with junk science, from anti-genetic engineering bioconservatives to “intelligent design” advocates. They want bans on some research, which is a nightmare to enforce. Enforcement would be a nightmare. Imagine if the government banned potential venues for gene therapy or instructed kids in “intelligent design” with your tax money. Likewise, attacking science (and technology indirectly) with crappy fundamentalist philosophy is economic suicide for a developed nation.”

I’ve never heard of intelligent design advocates wanting to ban anything. Also, philosophy is more important than science; good philosophy is what keeps science from turning into a silly religion and self-destructing. Imagine if all scientists spent their time pontificating on the kind of ridiculous nonsense that you see coming from evolutionary psychologists and sociologists.

“Now, here’s an interesting option: Perhaps instead of gold or government whims, we set the value of currency equal to say the informational equivalent of one hour’s worth of labor. A computer program that takes three hours to write is worth three credits. An engineering schematic that takes six hours is worth six credits. This is not so much an exchange of goods as an evolution of barter. Both parties decide on the value of a service or a good. Commodities might be a bit harder, though a decide price can be set (IE “A two credit computer program for a two credit table”).”

Essentially making every kind of commodity into money is unworkable, especially if something’s price is set to how many hours it takes to make it. Everyone getting paid for their labor hours is a nice dream of the left-ancaps and agorists, but it’s not going to happen.

“Forcing others to modify themselves is out of the question, as that’s just collectivism.”

Respect for other individuals' rights seems extraneous to transhumanism.

Final notes: The AWC guy is Justin Raimondo, not Raimundo.

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