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Thanks for your thoughts, should come in handy. Here's another fun quote: "Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's ...

You have a secret invisible 3rd premise that points to "a god" as the source of moral values: 3. Moral values are not my values or your values. Your a...

Freud (Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego) on Le Bon's The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895): ...a group is extraordinarily credulou...

re #3: You'll have to recruit a dictator or totalitarian structure to create and enforce this sort of cultural uniformity.

I agree. Ridiculous as she is, she's extremely influential in Right-minded circles. It's fun and useful to develop a catalog of zinging anti-Randian f...

If you pay someone $7.00 an hour for their labor, have you earned the product of their labor or have you, to some degree, stolen from them?

They don't seem to be pretending; it's a perfect myth to justify antipathy (unempathy) in the old Calvinist vein maybe like Max Weber said. (I of cour...

You didn't answer my question.

The stabbing knife analogy doesn't seem useful to me. You spoke of x and y. In this case because every mind has a unique configuration there is no y a...

What about 10% of subjects? 20%? And why? What if 63,000,000 people voted for Trump and as of March only 3% regret it? Is that enough to say force as ...

Why all subjects? You only need one subject to use force.

The quote is Bernays. X-)

The threat arises typically in the context of a political discussion at a family dinner or at a fashionable soiree and may well spread as a political ...

Let me rephrase your question for clarity's sake: If someone is unaware that their emotional complexes and habits-of-thought have been created or reco...

The error is Rand's. That's my point. She seems to assert that, apart from physical force, only reason, persuasion, discussion and voluntary, uncoerce...

Blaise St. Mary

Not sure about "Wolfmoon." I used to play a mystic skeptic on the old ruined site. Blaise St. Mary.

I suppose there's a WASPiform regular glory. A kind of goosebumps without a cosmological affect. I mean a gloriouser glory. e.g. https://www.youtube.c...

Thanks.

Can you point me to the place where these assertions are made?

Thanks, everybody. :)

Thanks. Thinking more of a secular glory and its pursuit: Cinema, spectacle, celebrity, adulation, fascism.