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Do Not Accept the Weak State of Mind in Our Time

@@ -76,27 +79,22 @@ a liberal; nor am I a conservative. I do not buy into the traditional socieconomic dipole scale, and I also reject the political compass two dimensional scale; my political belief system could best be described -as anarchism if you must have a label for it. Naturally this is only -because anarchism isn't an ideology, but rather a broad set of ideas -centered around the rejection of traditional heriarchial political and -social structures.

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These short essays are continually evolving, and each will be split -into its own page as the ideas contained within it are fleshed out in -my mind. Writing things down tends to help me to do this for there are -limits to how much information the top of my head can hold limiting -the usefulness of internal thought once an idea becomes complex -enough. Political and social beliefs are perhaps the most complicated -ideas a man can have because of our complex intertwined social -structures.

+as curmudgeonly bastard if you must have a label for it. This is only +because being a curmudgeonly bastard isn't an ideology, but rather a +broad set of ideas centered around the rejection of traditional +political and social structures (i.e hating everything). I reject the +ressentiment (lookit I'm Nietzsche) of traditional anarchism and +believe not that every man should have no master (for then all would +be weak), but rather that he should be his own master.

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These short essays are mere stubs I wrote a long while ago, and each +will perhaps be extended in the future.

The Basis of My Philosophy

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It is often helpful to know what someone considers as the basis of his -philosophy when interpeting what he has written. As such I have -compiled a page of links and quotations to reveal the inner secrets of -my mind.

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I read some things and thought they were cool. Now I can make people +think I'm smarter than I really am.

@@ -106,17 +104,12 @@ The Current Economic and Political Structure Is Broken

The Government of the Unites States

I feel that the government in the United States is very close to being -broken beyond repair. As it stands the government above the local -level ignores the individual citizen and instead is only affected by -large scale action. As far as the individual is concerned we no longer -live in a Republic, but rather in an Oligarchy which is quickly -descending into something far worse.

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I do feel that there is still some reform that could be made in the -near (ten years perhaps) future that could allow the government to -become tolerable again. We are, however, quite close to the edge where -there will be no fixing it. If that threshold is passed we are in for -terrible times.

+broken beyond repair (perhaps this is a bit conservative, but one must +hope). As it stands the government above the local level (and even +there!) ignores the individual citizen and instead is only forced to +do anything by large scale action. As far as the individual is +concerned we no longer live in a Republic, but rather in an Plutocracy +which is quickly descending into something far worse.

@@ -127,6 +120,8 @@ economic system based upon paying others as little as possible in an attempt to make the most profit from their labor so as to make some profit?

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But then again, what does evil mean?

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@@ -270,8 +265,7 @@ power wielded by a corporation were merely the sum of the individuals that composed it there would be little issue; the fundamental problem is that the benefits of gaining access to mass production facilities and a huge workforce that can be forced to cooperate on certain goals -gives a large corporation much more power than the simple sum of its -members.

+gives a large corporation much more than this.

Corporate Personhood should be revoked
@@ -369,10 +363,12 @@ Learned Ignorance and Weakness

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Last Modified: - March 13, 2008

+ December 11, 2008

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