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forrestcrow
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Alarming Discussion with Noam Chomsky, Conclusion - Regarding Ron Paul and more
A lively discussion between two people who arrive at the same conclusion after going back & forth. Professor Chomsky knows I've devoted myself to e...
Indeed, if you interview him again, the things he said about how complex the system is sort of validate WHY a left-libertarian ought to support Ron Paul. If the Rothbardian, ultra-rightist, anarcho-capitalist dream is what Chomsky fears, it's an unjustified fear because there's no way such a soci...
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forrestcrow
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3 weeks ago
Alarming Discussion with Noam Chomsky, Conclusion - Regarding Ron Paul and more
A lively discussion between two people who arrive at the same conclusion after going back & forth. Professor Chomsky knows I've devoted myself to e...
I find it interesting that Chomsky's so weary of endorsing Ron Paul. It appears to me that he knows Ron Paul is the best alternative out of everyone for the presidency (he never speaks out against Ron Paul - except once in a 2007 N Net forum), but something keeps him from saying so. It's a shame ...
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forrestcrow
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2 months ago
Reagan responds to Obama and his supporters
“But change would not mean
rejection of the past. Like a tree
growing strong through the
seasons, rooted in the Earth and
drawing life from the...
Reagan is a nationalist statist that used criminals around the world to fight the enemies of US hegemony, furthered criminalized marijuana use, ensured the absolute banker takeover of the economy and created more protectionist anti-free market polices than any post-war president. For all you righ...
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Michel Ciment Interviews Stanley Kubrick
Excerpts from a rare interview with French film critic Michel Ciment interviewing reclusive American movie director Stanley Kubrick about the theme...
@wolfblitzer57 I'd disagree. I think you're mixing the stylization with the content. The content of Kafka's work is incredibly bizarre and complicated, but the stylization is incredibly formal. Try reading In the Penal Colony and then look at something like Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and you'll unde...
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About Alan Smithee
Ayn Rand's Moral Defense of Capitalism
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On November 5, 2011 Yaron Brook, President & Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, spoke at Ev...
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forrestcrow said:
The state capitalist system promotes brilliant, creative and wholly selfish people to succeed, while a free market system would support the first two qualities but not necessarily the third. Things like open source programs, ebooks, online blogs etc... demonstrate this. Giant corporations simply ...
Ayn Rand's Moral Defense of Capitalism
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On November 5, 2011 Yaron Brook, President & Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, spoke at Ev...
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forrestcrow said:
For example, how far would Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have gotten if there was no state to protect "intellectual property"? Market discipline would enhance equity and cooperation, albeit via individual self-interest. That's the fatal flaw of Rand's philosophy: it ends with selfishness and that's i...
Ayn Rand's Moral Defense of Capitalism
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On November 5, 2011 Yaron Brook, President & Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, spoke at Ev...
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forrestcrow said:
Ayn Rand's philosophy only has meaning in a state capitalist context. If you had a true free market in which the state didn't intervene, nobody would be part of a corporate type structure when they could be part of a more cooperative structure. The reality of the situation is that markets are ult...
Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word
A poem I wrote to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion. In the scriptures Jesus received the most opposition from the most rel...
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forrestcrow said:
I really don't understand this. He's basically renouncing the physical totalitarianism of religion while embracing the mental totalitarianism of religion (albeit in a new, 21st century package). This is just my humble opinion, and I don't mean this to be merely belligerent, but why not just rejec...
Noam Chomsky on Ron Paul
Excerpt from Noam Chomsky's talk at Kutztown University on 11/21/2011.
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forrestcrow said:
@MsSexySocialist By the way, I do consider Ron Paul to be a "vulgar libertarian", as Kevin Carson calls them. But I consider him to be on the most non-vulgar end of the vulgar libertarian spectrum. And, I'll take that over King Obama or the current Idiocracy lineup of GOP candidates. Ron Paul 201...
Noam Chomsky on Ron Paul
Excerpt from Noam Chomsky's talk at Kutztown University on 11/21/2011.
13,671 views
forrestcrow said:
@MsSexySocialist As Kevin Carson pointed out, large scale private businesses as they exist could not exist without the nanny state, just as a turtle could not be placed on a countertop without intervention. I come from the school of mutualism that does not see capital, management and hierarchy as...
Noam Chomsky on Ron Paul
Excerpt from Noam Chomsky's talk at Kutztown University on 11/21/2011.
13,671 views
forrestcrow said:
@MsSexySocialist My problem with Chomsky (whom I admire immensely, by the way) is not his consequentialism (I too am a consequentialist, and I believe Ron Paul is more of a consequentialist than people like Murray Rothbard), it's his dismissal of bottom-up markets as having any positive effect. S...
Noam Chomsky on Ron Paul
Excerpt from Noam Chomsky's talk at Kutztown University on 11/21/2011.
13,671 views
forrestcrow said:
I find it interesting that Chomsky says, in the same breath, that we cannot allow Ron Paul's hands off free market to exist lest we submit to total corporate tyranny - and then says that corporate tyranny is dependent upon the nanny state. As a left-libertarian mutualist, I find this to be Chomsk...
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