January 24, 2006

• Isn't a black and white world a wonderful thing? Different states have different goals, Dr Chomsky. The alternative to the state is anti-rational anarchy, in which might makes right, and in which humanity is quashed.
• >Different states have different goals, Dr Chomsky. The alternative to the state is anti-rational anarchy I'm not an anarchist, and I'm skeptical as hell of the goals of the State I happen to be living in. 'States seek power' is a pretty large generalization, but as large generalizations go I'd say it's not wildly inaccurate. Why, what is your state seeking? Happiness for all sentient beings?
• Sorry- unnecessary sarcasm. Points deducted.
• Any monkeys live in Bhutan? Whats it like? /wishful thinking
• Hurray for Chomsky! I'm quite enamored of his work, and once took George Shadroui to task for his idiotic anti-Chomsky ravings. You are all invited to have a look see. As for anarchism, he's written extensively about it.
• Actually, all he did was awkwardly rephrase Benjamin Franklin's quotation: "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
• Deserve and will have neither, I thought it was, but maybe I read it paraphrased.
• The alternative to the state is anti-rational anarchy, in which might makes right, and in which humanity is quashed I suppose anarchism as a serious political movement is now so buried in obscurity that silly statements like this are possible with a straight face. What a shame. For most of the serious anarchists, their main objection to the state is precisely that it ultimately rests on arrogated power and 'might makes right'. An odd reversal skrik, unless your were just joining in the black-and-white minstrel show.
• I like this Abiezer.
• I like him too - and I might get have a beer with him one day soonish. And with YOU! Then you'll be sorry! HA HA HA HA HA!
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• The alternative to the state is anti-rational anarchy i favour post-rational flanarchy.
• Thanks, Abiezer, you saved me the trouble. The alternative to the state is anti-rational anarchy, in which might makes right, and in which humanity is quashed. What blithering idiocy. If you want to know something about anarchism, write me and I'll give you a reading list.
• . . . Chomskian analysis has become the defining dissident voice of the blogosphere and a certain kind of far-left academia. So a sense of its integrity is crucial. It is obsessively well-read, but rather famished in original research, except when it is counting how often the liberal media say this or that in their search for hidden, and sometimes not-so-hidden, bias. Crucially, it is not interested in debate, because balance is a ruse of the liberal media elites used to con the dumb masses. Chomsky is essential to save you, dear reader, from the lies we peddle. Chomsky hatas be all up in 'at.
• Noam Chomsky debates William F. Buckley (1969) (Google video, sound, etc) via Bluetown.
• Exclusively, Mind Hacks publishes a deleted section from an earlier draft of Bin Laden's latest speech that lays out his demands for the science of linguistics