Dirty Jingles

It's just all around better.

illuminatus is a book

Oohh ya I think she does that so no one can sendher messages

My judgments about what is interesting can be pretty capricious, I guess. : )

I'll probably look more closely at it at some point, just not right now.

in exchange for the penrose article (which i did like)

Dude that's funny, fucking funny. Almost as funny as that town called dildo.

You should start a TV show called intellectual fireside chats and you could dress up in a robe and smoke a pipe and could invite various contemporary intellectuals on to your show to have an old fashioned fireside chat

Sounds like a plan. Jus tot let you know I won't hav eit done for a while, I just wanted to give you a heads up

Hey I was actually wondering if yo'ud like to proofread a paper (for both grammar & logical ) for my political & social philosophy. Basically, we are reading a book called "Strong Democracy" by Benjamin Barber in which he makes a case on why there should be more government, more democracy, and more community in our lives, and also attempts to show the inadequacies of liberal democracy AKA libertarianism. Basically, my paper is a counter-argument to that, and I will be citing Mises, Hayek and a little bit of Hazlitt (or maybe Friedman, I haven't decided), to say that Barber is wrong because:

1) He does not account for the fact that community can arise within a liberal democracy because communities are nothing more than a group of individuals working towards a common goal, something which liberal democracy does not prevent.

2) Barber confuses the free market with American style capitalism. In actuality, a free market as proposed by Henry Hazlitt, Mises and Hayek would address the social inequalities & problems which face our society, and also that the free market, as a dynamic mathematical system, is far more adaptive to peoples needs & thus can react better than any system of government, whether it be a republic, a democracy of the people, etc.

3) No matter what we do, there will always be problems, and although Barber is correct in citing those problems and calling for solutions, no matter what style of governance we pick, society and people will always have problems, there is no magic way to legislate that away. I'd mainly quote Reinhold Neibuhr for this portion (a conservative theologian & political philosopher, but despite the fact I disagree with him on many things, his book Moral Man and Immoral Society makes some damn fine points).

Let me know if you're interested. And I think I showed you the other paper I wrote for that class. Just got it back and I got a B on it (mainly due to grammatical

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