Hi there
On 24 May 99, at 19:23, Bob Wallace wrote:
> Gandhi? Guy who slept with young naked girls as an old man to prove how
> 'pure' was? Was always interested in people's bowel movements? Whose
> ideas led to the deaths of a million Hindus and Muslims? Gandhi was
> close to insane. His persona was a myth. Almost pure propaganda.
And who helped to free an entire sub-continent from the illegal and
violent rule of the British Imperialists.
> What do you believe in? Intellectuals who are so utterly and morally
> superior to everyone that they should have the right to use government
> coercion to make people do what intellectuals 'know' is right? Thomas
> Sowell refers to such people as 'the annointed' who are deluded with
> what Hayek called 'the fatal conceit.'
> Indeed a pure free market does not exist. And that's a shame.
And it never will. What I do believe in is separating the achievments
of a person from his character. History is littered with the good
achievments of people of dubious character. But that dubious
character is often the result of Dynamic social value. There is a very
nasty tendency in todays political arena to use mud-slinging instead
of argument. If you don't like a persons beliefs then attack him with
vitriol and slander. This, as far as I can see is Social Value
attempting to dominate Intellectual value. And funnily enough, seeing
as I believe the MOQ to be of high value, I see this as immoral.
> Not the free market. Socialism. Attempts to use government power to
> exploit others.
Precisely my point. If you take the time time read up on the MAI - an
agreement between the multinationals and various governments -
you'll see that this is exactly what the multinations nearly succeeded
in doing. Fortunately, a bunch of motivated and dynamic intellectuals
prevented this from happening
> Intellectuals using biological level coercion to force their values on
> others is social level garbage. A common term for this is 'Marxism.'
Is this Marxism the theory or Marxism the Practice. One is
intellectual Value and the other Social Value. But exactly the same
case can be made against Capitalism as well and normally is.
Except that the intellectual value of Capitalism is of a lower order.
Horse
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