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July 26th, 2011, 9:02 pm
(quote not shown) Such as? Anarchy is the ultimate form of society. However, it requires each and every person in society to have the same mindset and abide by it. There can be 0 remnants of any past society. This is why it is not 'realistic' or is at least thousands of years away. Anarchy requires ...
July 26th, 2011, 7:50 pm
James Royce wrote: The theory’s basis permits great liberty and cultural, sexual, artistic, lifestyle and much other diversity regarding secondary ends. The primary end is a general principle implying non-sexism, non-racism, types of happiness, freedom, education, sympathy, peace, democracy, altruism, flourishing, fairness and much more. Emotions and various other subjective experiences are considered important.”
Politics is invariably concerned with economics. Does this theory place economics before or behind it principles?
March 28th, 2011, 2:05 pm
The US has always been a divided corrupt greedy tribal nation and has managed to survive despite all that. The pendulum swing of politics has always reached for extremes and those who gain power at them will overreach, wreak havoc on the nation, be repudiated and retreat to lick their wounds and hat...
March 28th, 2011, 1:50 pm
Many dictionaries these days equate anarchy with chaos but that is a deliberate obfuscation. When anarchy is defined as the chaos of no rules it seeks to remove the ability to articulate rule without rulers and infers the necessity to have rulers if there are to be rules. Do not confuse Anarchy with...
March 9th, 2011, 8:56 pm
(quote not shown) Well, it is the government that creates and enables the economic political and social structures that allow a "private sector" to exist and accumulate wealth and power. And it is government that protects them while they do so. There is really nothing natural about this so...
February 24th, 2011, 3:34 pm
If we consider the question, what is the purpose of the economy? The simple answer is to engender the efficient allocation of resources. But to what end? Many believe that the purpose of the economy is to meet social needs and advance society through economic growth and technological advance. That t...
February 14th, 2011, 8:39 pm
(quote not shown) That, and the socialist policies adopted by the western governments in fear of communism that created an economic dynamic of shared wealth and widespread prosperity. Now that the communists have collapsed (USSR) or been co-opted (China) there is no longer any need to share the weal...
February 11th, 2011, 3:01 am
(quote not shown) I agree. Republican/conservatives certainly talk a lot about certain specific parts of the Constitution but their actions indicate a severe and deliberate ignorance of the Constitution in its entirety. It seems to me that they have edited the Constitution to suit their own particul...
February 11th, 2011, 2:39 am
Well, this concentration of wealth thing is not a new problem. It is the perpetual dilemma of the greedy. Until recently this was not so apparent as new opportunities in new places continually arose, but now that the world and its resources have finally been measured and found finite economics has b...
February 9th, 2011, 12:10 am
It is a matter of perspective. If you are brought up with the perspective of entitlement to everything you want then you will become resentful if your wants are not met. If you are brought up with a perspective of satisfying need then you will not be resentful if you have enough to meet your needs. ...
February 8th, 2011, 9:35 pm
And here I was thinking all this time that capitalism and religion went hand in hand. I see now that capitalism is only a devious plot to replace religion with atheism and to then replace itself with communism. Either that or the Muslims will take over the world, even though their population growth ...
February 8th, 2011, 9:11 pm
There is also a fundamental question that needs to be addressed. The question is: What is the purpose of the economy? It seems to me that the purpose of the economy is to serve the needs of society, i.e. to facilitate improvement in the life of every person. The Libertarian/Objectivist seems to esch...
February 1st, 2011, 11:07 pm
The problem is one of control. Once controls are sought, for whatever reason, it will result in the power to arbitrarily control content. Once power is gained it will inexorably increase and becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible, to rescind or even restrain. So, do we put up with an increas...