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My Economy Rant
When the rich steal from the rich, it's Good Business.
When the rich steal from the rich for the poor, it's Noblesse Oblige.
When the middle steal from the middle, it's Corruption.
When the rich and the middle steal from the poor, it's Fiscal Responsibility.
When the poor steal from the rich and the middle, it's Crime.
When the poor steal from the poor, it's Tough Luck.
My favorite haiku
Ask not.
Take everything.
Even my poverty.
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Brian Hayes produces the One Stop Thought Shop as a blog to capture smart and interesting ideas and technologies and social commentary. This blog doesn't tell you about what there is on the breakfast menu nor about mood or dinner dates. Instead the One Stop Thought Shop provides education and insight about breakthrough science, technology and our modern world.
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Caveat
We must be careful not to overstate the case. Let us not forget that in this situation it must be noted: nothing could be further from the truth. Because, as they say, it is the exception that proves the rule. Of course, rules are made to be broken and so, in this case, we must make allowances. For the time being, all we can state with certainty is that, given this set of assumptions, all things will be equal. Context is everything. Thus, this is not the final word on the subject. And yet, because of the foregoing doubts, we must be doubly sure. So, in light of current developments and taking stock of all our cultural preconceptions, the conclusion is neither obvious nor buried.
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Robert Neuwirth.
Amerika
This doctrine is known as antinomianism, the doctrine that the Elect are free of all constraint by laws. To what extent does this principle still animate our politics?
At home, we have a famously low to nonfunctional welfare state, almost as if we thought there is fundamentally something wrong with helping those whom God hasn't favored.
Our entertainments (and sometimes, it seems, our police departments) are replete with the 'action hero' who breaks all the rules and acts an awful lot like a Bad Guy, but is the Good Guy nonetheless. More at
Calvinism for Dummies
Reason's Revenge
mystic bourgeoisie:
"...history is not predestined. It is, however, littered with with petty control
freaks peddling fascism tricked up to look like freedom..."
Henry David Thoreau: "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good. Be good for something."
Neitzche: "Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
Isaac Asimov: "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
Buckminster Fuller: "If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.'
Albert Einstein: "As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."
Anais Nin: "We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are."
Blaise Pascal: "I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room."
Thor Heyerdahl: "Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
Robinson Jeffers: "We must uncenter our minds from ourselves; We must unhmanize our views a little, and become confident As the rock and ocean that we were made from."
Zo: "Taking delight in oneself. A damn sight easier if them what gave birth to you felt the same way."
Walt Whitman: "There is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thought that rises, independent, lifted out from all else, calm, like the stars, shining eternal. This is the thought of identity— yours for you, whoever you are, as mine for me."
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2 Comments:
Bad link!
Other than that, keep up the good work =-)
Thanks for the 'fix alert' and encouragement.
I looked for a link that would be more than a book review. Deric Bownd's Mind Blog pointed to Mithen's open source essay. Hopefully the link will remain available:
The Music Instinct
The Evolutionary Basis of Musicality
Steven Mithen
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