Philosophy and History

Glenn Beck is dumb and an inadvertent shill, Michael Savage is an incoherent jackass.

@jpohe People are dropping dead in China by the millions. DAMN YOU GLUTAMATE!

I have to agree with Albert Jay Nock, it has never been shown that having a majority of the population literate is any boon for society. The main reason to push literacy, from a State perspective, is to make people more receptive to various modes of propagandizing and impressioning. Obviously the...

I like Rand for a lot of thing, but she (and many Objectivists, like Piekoff) had a delusion about a 'capitalist' state, which is in a lot of ways like Plato's 'Philosopher King', it is an impossible delusion. The answer for Israel and the middle east is not a 'two state' solution, but a no-state...

@xXtyrannizingXx Actually, that's a pretty silly view of things.

Classic albums get made because people are trying to sell their output and are therefor controlled by the incentive to make things people want to hear. People who just make music for themselves usually put out crap. It just so happe...

@hyperseauton Arnold has an Austrian accent, this guy has an NE German accent.

Pretty hilarious.

@austrianrationalist

Dude, I know!

'This summer, liberty Dies Hard.'

Best interview ever.

I didn't know Thomas Carlyle was a poorly disguised asian girl.

There is a limitation of time, but also of capacity. The human mind has quite limited capabilities.

There is the issue that a lot of NeoConservatives come from a Lovestonite anti-Stalinist background; they believe it is the duty and right of the US to 'spread democracy' by bombs.

@charronfamilyconnect

If one person in the world owned all the gold and wouldn't lend it out, then we'd start using something else as money; since gold would obviously be useless for indirect exchange due to the fact that only one person has any..

Also, that's such a bizarre fantasy world I can'...