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Only a socialist talks about force and claims it isn't force. It's a matriarchal condition, like, "Do what I say, but tell me you like it."

Oh, you're a socialist.

Anything can be capital, and all capital can cease to be capital. One of Rothbard's examples was a chair in a hotel; if it were in your home it wouldn...

I wanted to say something like this, minus the name change. Socialists are the ones who define certain types of property as capital because it gives t...

You can't distribute capital if you don't differentiate between capital and property.

Absolutely. When you remove the floating abstractions (namely the concept of capital) it's pretty hard to argue against capitalism.

It's impossible to stop people from cooperating.

Interesting stuff. This is what I've thought for a while, being the most probable explanation for consciousness. I had never heard the terminologies b...

Science and business go hand in hand. Karl Popper's philosophy shaped the modern scientific method.

Yep. Bigotry and sexism. The biggest problems in the Western World at the moment... And definitely the norm.

Thanks for posting the letter. People should read it.

Sure...

There's two problems with this: 1. Hungary was not willfully part of the USSR. 2. Hungarians decided to keep the statue. If Russians were the ones say...

I think you misinterpreted me. I don't think the silent majority is narcissistic, not as it pertains to their political position. The mob is not the m...

It's not maintainable. The mob is not organized enough or smart enough to control the majority, who are not in the mob and never will be because of th...

Your implication here is that without memory experience cannot exist. We know the brain stays very active during sleep. We know we dream, and for the ...

I don't see another more believable alternative. Like everything else in the universe, I don't think awareness is created or destroyed, but the form c...

lol I never said rocks are aware. I did say I think insects are aware, and I don't think awareness is an emergent property... but we only acknowledge ...

And at some point a pile of dirt becomes a hill. Doesn't mean the hill "emerged," only the abstract concept. It would seem that electricity is an emer...

Is anyone saying that consciousness is an emergent property going to deny that we can see a spectrum of consciousness at the top end? Can they explain...

Why don't you try to make an actual point? Otherwise why even comment?

You're really making me question your reading comprehension.

Not true. There are things that are absolutely knowable, like the fact that existence exists and consciousness exists. We know that there is a differe...

I agree with your reply. The only thing is that "consciousness" is used quite loosely depending on the source. The people who follow Eckart Tolle, or ...

Well if you have no feeling about the answer, how do you even know other people are conscious? Saying "I don't know," sounds like you're leaving the d...

At what level of consciousness is this observer produced? Is there an observer in the case of insects? This is only part of the argument, but you do a...

It's what happens in every political system that involves the public at all. Democracy moves towards anarchy because it's an easy sell; you're appeali...

And before the gold mine was opened how much value did the real estate have? Your problem is not with the loss of value, your problem is with the chan...

Basically the process of instating a communist system is to work towards anarchy until the old power structure is toppled. As soon as that power vacuu...

None of the people with these authoritarian ideals would ever put themselves in danger to advance their agenda. The fact that Noam Chomsky is now alt-...

So I am actually in agreement with the OP, although I don't like the terminology. "Consciousness" is what we have, and comes with the ability to think...

He's not authoritarian, he just stresses the importance of the problem "how do we get there from here?" He theorizes that there is no such thing as in...

We continue to learn about health and our nature. Embracing elements of the culture of the past is not an impossibility. I would even say it's a proba...

It's interesting that the question presupposes the immorality of hurting others, without any justification. Why the double standard? Obviously the imm...

Here: https://archive.org/details/limitsofpuredemo00mallrich/mode/2up

Yes it has, Ancient Greece was a direct democracy. (The "Ancient" is for "no more/failed state").

Get ready for some ignorant replies :P

But civilization existed for thousands of years before that gold and oil was of any value? Why? Because nobody had done the work to find it, drill it/...

It depends on how the power structure is set up. Here you can read a developed theory with a lot of primary sources on how the political structure is ...

This is what I thought you meant, and am just using the word entity to refer to the group as a whole. No, I do believe there is plenty of conspiring g...

And by what non-arbitrary standard is the state not a part of "the people"? The media is the media, the universities are the universities, and the sta...

The economy does run on human labor, though. "Resources" are not measured by weight or volume. Resources are anything required to produce human value....

This is smart. People do not change their minds on things like this unless it is rooted in a more fundamental change of perspective. But without argui...

No, public opinion only needs to be dominated to the extent that the public have power. If not, public opinion is only important as so far as it preve...

All the great achievements in human history depended on a hierarchy of power. It's called leadership and it's something humans need (and compete to be...

I mean that official power decentralizes and weakens. Any policies that contradict the ultimate value, being the lowest common denominator, are only t...

And then what? There is no winning option on the right. The culture will continue to change in the direction it always has. Like I said above, there a...

This has always been the case. Things either progress, or progress slowly; those are the options. Specific policies are irrelevant, the general consti...

What people want and what works for them are two different things.

The war is not for culture, though. It's for power. One side doesn't want it, they just want to stop the power grab. They're too concerned with cultur...