"Nowhere in Tim's spew is the recognition that the largest beneficiaries of government favoritism are corporations and wealthy individuals like himself, especially those associated with the greeders of the defense industry, rather the national security state." Yes...that's the thing I don't fully get. If we assume that Mr May made a big chunk of $$$ at Intel, isn't it rather naive of him to assume that the same system that helped make Intel the global $$$-generator it is isn't the same system that keeps black folks quiescent and so on? I think it's doubtful that Intel could have become what it is in any other country in the world. Add to that the fact that Mr May seems to lead a fairly bucolic life (from his accounts)...working in his gardens, installing tripwires and landmines and so forth, apparently without worrying about cash or physical needs. So this system has served him pretty well, insofar as there was a place for him to apply his skills in order to make his $$$. That system was payed for by somebody else's taxes, and now it's asking (well, demanding from) him for some $$$ that he apparently can easily afford. This doesn't necessarily annhilate his "arguments" or main thesis, but in this light the call for the killing of millions so that he can afford a few more landmines seems perplexing. As for the middle east and US foreign policy, I'd be more convinced if Mr May and others pointed to that as a main reason to stop paying taxes and back out of the system. In other words, that there may or may not be any 'inherent' flaw to a fairly light form of "statism", but that it's defacto application (in the case of the US) is creating a seriously destabilized global political environment, while decreasingly serving (though a piss-poor education system) those that ought to benefit from taxes and spending. (This was why I became interested in "Crypto-Anarchy".) Of course, I'll add the usual boiler-plate notion invoked by physicists, mathematicians, and hard-scientists almost universally, in their heart of hearts: Only mathematics and experimental physics (as a thought system or philisophy) are truly reliable and able to make definitive conclusions about the world...all other so-called systems of thought (including sociology, political 'science', economics and so on) are half-baked hodge podges at best. Therefore, any thought system that has as a corrollary "...and 40 million negros should die..." should immediately be suspect of having been based on a foundation of non-mathematical muck, likely relating to penis envy and getting rejected by some hot black chick Mr May tried to date back in 1957 or whatever. -TD
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com> To: cypherpunks@algebra.com Subject: Re: Vengeance Libertarianism Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 04:38:04 -0800
What's pleasurable about reading the fiction of ideologues like Tim is the smack-down tone of their prejudices. Fake, fake, fake.
Nowhere in Tim's spew is the recognition that the largest beneficiaries of government favoritism are corporations and wealthy individuals like himself, especially those associated with the greeders of the defense industry, rather the national security state. No US institution has been uncontaminated by the wealth generated by the illusion of US enemies and the raping of the economy to simulate battle with such fictional threats, at home and abroad.
Welfare is puny by comparison, and Tim's castigation of it is like the master of the house bitching about health needs of his servants while requiring them to wipe his ass. Standard nouveau riche conceit which reveals a fear of again being a poor asswipe himself, the stench of self-loathing inescapable.
The favorite mindlessness of the ideologue, is to rehash endlessly comfortable old prejudices, chanting repetitively the same accusations, avoiding self-criticism in the manner of the self-righteous, professing of certainty to conceal doubt, working hard to present an image of confidence, most often by blaming and attacking easy targets.
The rich fear the poor, and rightly so, for they know who pays for their perks. And the answer to this fear is always threats of violence, the dominant paradigm of those who reap the most benefits from house rules of the United States.
Cloaked, as ever, in blind faith in the "Constitution," or another rigged fat cat document used to fleece the peasants at home and abroad, based as they always are on justification of the supremacy of the over-privileged.
Eveready to shoot those who disagree, send them up the chimneys, the teenie-bopper ideologue struts mightily against imaginary demons.
Wasn't it a leftist who coined Goldwater's most memorable phrase? Extremists are all alike, full of shit and hatred, their own worst enemy. Suicide prone, but afraid to go alone.
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