Orwell did a great job of mapping and unmasking various elements of tactics used.
That kind of explains it then.
It's like a life-long funeral for socialism by a socialist who can't just face the fact that socialism doesn't work.
It's like a life-long funeral for socialism by a socialist who can't just face the fact that socialism doesn't work.
If Orwell is cringe, Ayn Rand is repulsive. Imagine a future where females like that one masturbate on 50% of the pages, and that future is here.
Like what I often say about socialists hate boner for Hitler:
There's nobody who hates socialists more than other, slightly different socialists.
There's nobody who hates socialists more than other, slightly different socialists.
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@ned @amerika @PNS @cjd @sj_zero Anarchism is a term stretched to the point of meaninglessness -- it can be socialism, communism, syndicalism of various flavors, libertarianism " " "... but it can also mean, in the simplest, rawest form one who rejects coercion in the ordering of society, and can extend that to mean one who rejects order itself.
I used to use that word to describe my own view, which is that the state (or any organization) has to make a case for my cooperation and participation; the fact that I'm born here entitles me to be here, and I owe no mafia with a flag any consideration, let alone allegiance: it's up to them to make a case. If that case is coercive, it justifies resistance at the minimum.
In practical terms... this doesn't work because almost any two people can organize to overcome a single person which renders any sort of ideological/political position and its arguments moot; even so, I still more or less think as above, and regard government like mostly unwelcome weather: a reality that one must contend with.
I believe that all forms of government (including its absence) are cringe because whatever form it takes, it has to address the fact that 80% of humanity are too fucking stupid to wipe or wash their own asses. Such a system will necessarily be base (not based), gay, retarded, and violent, and treat the 20% as either gods, or the retarded 80%, or some funky combination of both that.
The best answer I have to this Gordian knot of retardation is seasteading, spacefaring, or similar sorts of escaping the ship of fools by being a fool with one's own ship.
I used to use that word to describe my own view, which is that the state (or any organization) has to make a case for my cooperation and participation; the fact that I'm born here entitles me to be here, and I owe no mafia with a flag any consideration, let alone allegiance: it's up to them to make a case. If that case is coercive, it justifies resistance at the minimum.
In practical terms... this doesn't work because almost any two people can organize to overcome a single person which renders any sort of ideological/political position and its arguments moot; even so, I still more or less think as above, and regard government like mostly unwelcome weather: a reality that one must contend with.
I believe that all forms of government (including its absence) are cringe because whatever form it takes, it has to address the fact that 80% of humanity are too fucking stupid to wipe or wash their own asses. Such a system will necessarily be base (not based), gay, retarded, and violent, and treat the 20% as either gods, or the retarded 80%, or some funky combination of both that.
The best answer I have to this Gordian knot of retardation is seasteading, spacefaring, or similar sorts of escaping the ship of fools by being a fool with one's own ship.