Geoffrey Allan Plauche
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TANSTAAFL!!!
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31 years old
Bellevue, Nebraska
United States
Last Login: 12/8/2009
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| General | Philosophy
Politics & Economics
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International relations | | Music | Check out my cousin Kevin's band, Building the State; my friend Dale's song, Silent Lullaby; my friend Jimmy's band, Horseshoes & Handgrenades; Ashlin's band, The Eames Era.
Favorite Genres: rock, heavy metal, blues-rock, alternative, punk-rock, classical, celtic.
Favorite Bands: Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne, They Might Be Giants, Green Day, Garbage, Joydrop, Evanescence. | | Movies | Serenity, Equilibrium, V for Vendetta, The Lord of the Rings, Stargate, Batman Begins, The Matrix, Underworld, Reign of Fire, Spaceballs, Star Wars, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's The Life of Brian, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Enter the Dragon, Princess Bride, Willow, Highlander, Gattaca, Gandhi.
| | Television | Favorite Channels (I wish I had cable): Food Network, Sci-fi, Comedy Central, History, National Geographic, PBS/LPB.
Favorite Shows: Firefly, Babylon 5, Jericho, Seinfeld, House, My Name is Earl, 24.
| | Books | Nonfiction: Various works by Aristotle, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, F.A. Hayek, Lysander Spooner, Roderick Long, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Douglas Rasmussen and Douglas Den Uyl, Fred Miller, Nathaniel Branden, Frederic Bastiat, Henry Hazlitt, Albert Jay Nock, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Jefferson; The Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee.
Fiction: Robert Heinlein; Ayn Rand's Anthem, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and We the Living; J.R.R. Tolkien; George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series; Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series; R.A. Salvatore's Drizzt Do'Urden series; John C. Wright; C.S. Friedman's Coldfire trilogy; Isaac Asimov; Donald Kingsbury's Psychohistorical Crisis; Orson Scott Card's Ender series; Michael Moorcock's Elric and Eternal Champion novels; George R. Stewart's Earth Abides; many of the other D&D novels from the Dragonlance, Birthright, Forgotten Realms, and Dark Sun settings; various Star Wars novels; Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451; George Orwell's 1984; Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
F&SF Magazines & E-zines: Locus, Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Azimov's, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Jim Baen's Universe, Realms of Fantasy.
Graphic Novels & Comic Books: Alan Moore's The Watchmen and V for Vendetta; X-Men; Batman, especially issues by Frank Miller and Alan Grant; Anarky by Alan Grant; Michael Moorcock's Elric series; the Firefly/Serenity miniseries linking the tv show and the movie.
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Robert A. Heinlein Book Club, Stranger in a Strange Land, J.R.R. Tolkien, Quenta Silmarillion, The Fellowship, The Tolkien Readers group, The Literature Club, The Road to Lothlorien
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Sulphur, Louisiana | | Body type: | 5' 8" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Atheist | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Doctoral Candidate |
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I am a grad student, currently working on my dissertation in political philosophy. I'm building on a burgeoning tradition in developing an Aristotelian form of classical (not contemporary and leftist!) liberalism.
I've flipped burgers and delivered pizza. I was a lifeguard and swimming instructor for one summer. And I served six years in the Louisiana Army National Guard as an intelligence analyst, the last three as my battalion's intelligence NCO (Sergeant, E-5). I love martial arts and have a 1st degree black belt in taekwondo, but haven't practiced in a while. When I finish my dissertation and get a regular job, I'd like to get back into martial arts.
I've been playing with the idea of writing F&SF for a while now, indulging in writing-based online freeform RPGs, but recently decided to start working seriously on that goal. My focus right now out of necessity has to be writing my dissertation, getting published academically, and getting an academic job, so it might be a while before I have any rough drafts of completed stories to share. But...I'm doing my homework: immersing myself in the genre, reading some writer's guides, developing story ideas, settings and characters, and practicing.
My interests in F&SF are broader than some, narrower than others. I'm not particularly impressed by so-called 'literary' fiction or, consequently, so-called 'literary' F&SF. These pieces usually, but not always, strike me as pretentious, boring, and/or unintelligible. I do like hard SF, space opera, military SF and the more humanistic SF. I like epic and heroic fantasy as well as some dark and urban fantasy, but I'm starting to get tired of the endless series involving a 'chosen one' who must fight the 'dark lord' with the very fabric of reality hanging in the balance. I prefer my magic logical and 'scientific', not ineffable. A little mystery and psychological horror are nice additions to F&SF, but I generally don't read straight mystery or horror. I like dystopian fiction as well. And some alternate history and historical fiction, but usually only if it features political-economic issues, war, and the like.
Anthologies I am currently (but slowly) reading: The Year's Best Science Fiction: 23rd Annual Collection, edited by Dozois; The Space Opera Renaissance, edited by Hartwell & Cramer; Best Short Novels 2006, edited by Strahan; Off the Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction Stories of Robert A. Heinlein; The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith; The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction; Black Seas of Infinity: The Best of H.P. Lovecraft.
I blog occasionally on my main blog, Libertas, and on the Mises Economics Blog. My personal website url is www.veritasnoctis.net.
In addition to MySpace, you can also find me on Facebook, LiveJournal, and Orkut.
For your convenience, edification and reading/viewing pleasure, I have created an Aristotelian Liberal Amazon.com Store, which includes books on the burgeoning political philosophy, on market anarchism and the Austrian school of economics, and liberty-themed fiction (books and dvds).
Favorite Quotes:
"TANSTAAFL!!!" - Robert Heinlein
"The State is that great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else." - Frederic Bastiat
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." - Ayn Rand
"I swear - by my life and my love of it - that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." - Ayn Rand
“I’m no Ayn Rander! She didn’t go nearly far enough!" - The Question, Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley (2002)
"My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) - or to ..unconstitutional' Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word state (in any sense other than the inanimate realm of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate!" - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1995), p. 63.
"If we could get back to personal names, it would do a lot of good. Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and the process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people. If people were in the habit of referring to ..King George's council, Winston and his gang', it would do a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy" - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1995), p. 63.
"The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit to it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity" - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1995), p. 64.
"The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny." - Merlyn, The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White
"I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person." - Merlyn, The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White
"All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull." - Merlyn, The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White
"Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people - it is often very dangerous to do things at all - and the only thing worth doing for the race is to increase its stock of ideas. Then, if you make available a larger stock, people are at liberty to help themselves from out of it. By this process the means of improvement is offered, to be accepted or rejected freely, and there is a faint hope of progress in the course of millennia. Such is the business of the philosopher, to open new ideas. It is not his business to impose them on people." - Merlyn, The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with a series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
"The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation." - Frank Knight
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H.L. Mencken
"I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home." - Albert Jay Nock
"Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they are prosperous if the boom starts, and that deficits and indebtedness are merely signs of how prosperous they are." - Albert Jay Nock
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell
"Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow." - Edmund Burke
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics." - Thomas Sowell
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is hacking at the root." - Henry David Thoreau
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." - Robert Heinlein
"The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys." - Robert Heinlein
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