“Ukraine is part of Europe geographically, but for the demonstrators and their supporters the concept of “Europe” has the resonance of a vision, vivid and frustratingly out of reach. To them, Europe implies genuine democracy, trustworthy police and sincere respect for human rights.” —
(lost the source)
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 16:47:00 UTC
LIBERTARIAN VIRGINITY
The Dark Enlightenment: Where libertarians go, when they lose their virginity.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-06 10:30:00 UTC
Postmodernism is conspicuous consumption for intellectuals and elites. Conservatives have no equivalent.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-04 22:46:00 UTC
http://markmanson.net/stop-trying-to-be-happy(sentimental but true)
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-02 04:52:00 UTC
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/02/disagreement-a-response-to-gary-norths-criticism-of-bitcoin/(repost)(edited and expanded)
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-02 02:56:00 UTC
http://www.businessinsider.com/protesters-bulldoze-the-police-2013-12
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 11:31:00 UTC
SMACK DOWN
“I want to go watch!”
“You will be the first person to use gazolin and start war in my country. If you wanna war, then go to your f__king states, and make war with your Obama. Ukrainians won’t be using violence. We are not a violent people.”
What can I say. I’m an anarchist. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 10:24:00 UTC
http://www.ft.com/home/europeTHE FINANCIAL TIMES AND THE BBC ARE CARRYING THE NEWS
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-01 10:16:00 UTC
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/core-on-the-utopianism-of-libertarianism/Rothbard, Hoppe and Doolittle : from reactionary ideology, to rational philosophy, to ratio-empirical institution.
(re-post)
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-30 05:33:00 UTC
http://www.stephenhicks.org/”Noam Chomsky is a mixed bag intellectually, but I like this quotation forwarded to me by Edward Fox:
CHOMSKY ON POSTMODERNISM
“There are lots of things I don’t understand — say, the latest debates over whether neutrinos have mass or the way that Fermat’s last theorem was (apparently) proven recently. But from 50 years in this game, I have learned two things: (1) I can ask friends who work in these areas to explain it to me at a level that I can understand, and they can do so, without particular difficulty; (2) if I’m interested, I can proceed to learn more so that I will come to understand it. Now Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard, Kristeva, etc. — even Foucault, whom I knew and liked, and who was somewhat different from the rest — write things that I also don’t understand, but (1) and (2) don’t hold: no one who says they do understand can explain it to me and I haven’t a clue as to how to proceed to overcome my failures. That leaves one of two possibilities: (a) some new advance in intellectual life has been made, perhaps some sudden genetic mutation, which has created a form of ‘theory’ that is beyond quantum theory, topology, etc., in depth and profundity; or (b) … I won’t spell it out.”
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-28 01:19:00 UTC