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Bloginton Blakley

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You can not emulate genius, you either are or are not. If we take the common meaning of genius. You seem to be assuming that being driven to succeed i...
February 12, 2019 at 11:22
"Do you see how this is backward? We make demands on agriculture, because it is necessary to support the vast numbers of human lives, not vise versa."...
February 12, 2019 at 04:09
The thing about taxes is that they are set by a government which will quickly become owned by the wealthiest in the system. Any government... Everyone...
February 11, 2019 at 19:56
When you say power elite, I read authoritarian. The use of authoritarianism is a choice that came along with setting up civilization... using crops......
February 11, 2019 at 19:49
"Profiting from the capitalist system is a totally another thing to profiting from a criminal enterprise or racket." How do you figure?
February 11, 2019 at 15:45
It's pretty easy to start engineering something and come to an unexpected dead end. We've engineered an agrarian society... we call it civilization an...
February 11, 2019 at 10:55
Let's say we are in a lifeboat. And I "own" the lifeboat and all the food and water. Once I have everything everyone else owns, in return for a place ...
February 11, 2019 at 10:34
Does might make right? Wouldn't we have to start with a known wrong and then demonstrate that the application of force makes that know wrong... right....
February 11, 2019 at 10:26