tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29705116.post4464375168586850908..comments2023-10-31T04:56:00.798-05:00Comments on It Must Be the Vapors…: THE “BANE” OF SELF-RELIANCE?Yodoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244765916380830711noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29705116.post-22712283940467034932009-11-08T12:32:35.990-06:002009-11-08T12:32:35.990-06:00On second reading of your comment I noticed anothe...On second reading of your comment I noticed another of your wiley ways, to wit: the equating of either/or to duality. <br />For me duality means If you string out the variations in reality tunnels about any subject the extreme ends of the string are symbols for the direction to move along the string to change the proportions of the meanings of the symbols.<br /><br />Either/or means there are only the two ends possible, no string.<br /><br />So that's how you guys work it, wisdom dawns slowly if it is to last.<br /><br />Easy to see enemies when you go either/or. I'm not your enemy, nuanced or not.Yodoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244765916380830711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29705116.post-53238212501296187102009-11-08T12:15:04.470-06:002009-11-08T12:15:04.470-06:00Where do you find an either/or, you wiley old side...Where do you find an either/or, you wiley old sides-maker. I am a socialist because I empathize with others' suffering and offer help whenever I think I have it. I would like everyone to feel that way about each other. <br /><br />I live alone (as Che Bob likes to refer to it, "out on the rez")to find the unaculturated human within me that exists in common with all humans so that I may live my life in reverent respect for that essence as an example of what I am learning and a guide to communicate it. This is how I offer my help to people by the side of the rat race track.<br /><br />I am against the collective because ethics and morality cannot be legislated, and even if they were individuals would still either care or not. The collective acts as a crutch, just like religion demanding what is only of value when freely offered, that cripples true brotherhood and the will to freely offer anything. The collective, while ostensibly giving comfort to the less fortunate, gives cover to usury by the vulture spirits among humanity no less than capitalism does the crimes on Wall Street. The ideal versus the incarnation. The good Samaritan versus 1984. I do much better on my own thanks that's my personal either/or. Yours are yours, personal or demanded of everyone.Yodoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244765916380830711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29705116.post-79182468560235845462009-11-08T11:34:13.050-06:002009-11-08T11:34:13.050-06:00And yet you fall prey to the same "broad brus...And yet you fall prey to the same "broad brush" tendency. Where you normally display a capacity for nuance and contingency on this subject you adopt a dualistic, "either/or" that is puzzling. Individual or collective.We need to understand Gault within the larger project of Objectivism and free market fundamentalism which is why I used the word fetish. <br />Likewise, Marx wrote that "the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."<br /><br />I brought up Rand because Anthem is right under 5000 Year Leap by Skousen on the JBS reading list in front of me.troutskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16020298501632120830noreply@blogger.com