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Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:30:12 +0000

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By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:40:22 +0000

The other point Miller made concerned nature. We are often told the natural is good, and thus we should emulate it. Yet we often find the savagery of nature not only to be the most pristine state we have ever met of non human interference, but also the most cruel and the harshest, equal to Hobbs’ metaphysics.

Good, compassion, equality, these are not natural things, but man made and man created artifacts. Made of a desire and will, nothing more, and if man didn’t exist, neither would such things exist.

I have yet to see gender equality amongst lions. I have yet to see compassion from hyenas. I have yet to see the old being taken care of by the young in herds. When an outlier exists, we all rush to it, but the very state of the freakish nature of such things existing in the world calls into focus how rare it is for the so called noble animal kingdom of savages.

The Left attempts to apply some of this noblesse to tribals as well, except perhaps without the oblige.

In retrospect, the Left seems to desire a world crueler than what the current one is under a natural state. By using human power to create savagery and destruction not equal, but beyond what nature itself has created on planet Earth. Now that’s a goal to vote for in your so called “democracy”. Since most people wouldn’t hear of it, it must be kept hidden, people must be allowed their self deceptions.
I’m not sure what will become of humanity in such a state, but it isn’t good. It wasn’t good 3000 years ago in the pristine “natural Gaia” we had, and it won’t be good in the Left’s “pristine non-human Utopia” either.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:30:32 +0000

Rory Miller wrote a piece somewhat relative to the topic. http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2012/12/its-later.html

“What they don’t see are the people who have been patiently waiting in line to come to America, but whose chances diminish as others skip the line entirely.”

The IRS is one of the biggest tyrants in the US to begin with. American citizens don’t know much about it because… they don’t deal with them at all. Power imbalance.

What Americans don’t see, precisely because the Left wishes them not to, are all the rape victims on the various coyote smuggling runs and convoys from Mexico to the US. All the kidnapped workers and their families, held hostage until the workers in the US “pay off the debt”. The 50% tax or more, that gets fed to human smugglers (including the child trafficers we saw ACORN familiarize themselves with) as well as the Mexican government and drug cartels for the privilege to “work” in the US.

All of these problems, but none of them are things which the Left can make use of in their power mad death cult utopian schemes. At least, not yet. Eventually, however, they will find a way to manipulate people into believing that such things are either America’s fault, their political enemy’s fault, or just the Republican’s fault. When that day happens (when, not if), they will have a stronger grasp on migrant workers from mexico and they will suddenly allow the media to present news of such incidents. And it will happen as if it suddenly began, to American eyes. When it had been happening for decades.
The power of the Left and their propaganda arm knows no bounds, for there is no such thing as limited powers when one speaks of mad racist totalitarian regime eugenicists.

By: johnfromcolumbus

johnfromcolumbus — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:28:05 +0000

Whoops—’Cash for Clunkers’ Actually Hurt the Environment
http://news.yahoo.com/why-cash-clunkers-hurt-environment-more-helped-024848694.html

By: David Foster

David Foster — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:17:21 +0000

No, it was the sort of thing a tiger would say…

By: Indigo Red

Indigo Red — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:42:51 +0000

Sure it was Hobbes? Mightn’t it have been Calvin?

By: David Foster

David Foster — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:24:55 +0000

There was a great quote, I believe from Hobbes, on the concretization of abstractions, but I’ve been unable to re-locate it…

By: Indigo Red

Indigo Red — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:26:46 +0000

Ain’t that the truth, David!

By: David Foster

David Foster — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:18:00 +0000

Indigo Red…”When I’ve used this story on my liberal friends, I get a blank stare and the response, “What have tailors and doctors to do with one another?” There’s no capacity to compare and contrast in the brain of a Liberal it seems.”
Higher education *should* help develop the ability to deal with abstractions; ie, among other things to understand commonalities which may not be immediately obvious, as between the tailor and the doctor. Too often, it seems to have the opposite effect: it seems to lead not to fluency in abstract thinking, but to *concretizing abstraction*, ie to talking about categories (“the poor,” “the middle class,” etc) as if they were actual objects.