Geodesic neoconservative empire
At 10:07 PM 10/24/04 -0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: If the only way
to kill barbarians is to kill barbarians in their bed before they kill you in yours, to pave over nation-states that support them, starting with the easiest first, it can't happen fast enough, as far as I'm concerned, and I'll gladly "vote" my expropriated tax-dollars for the purpose of draining the swamp that is the Middle East.
Is this geodesic neo-conservativism? Where can I start bearer-document goose-stepping? Whatever happened to leaving the barbarians to kill themselves, and getting the fuck out of family spats?
For the most part, I'm going to answer this (mostly) seriously, though I expect it wasn't asked in the same fashion. At 9:17 PM -0700 10/28/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Is this geodesic neo-conservativism? Where can I start bearer-document goose-stepping?
Impedance mismatch. You're using a (now) cryptocommie codeword for Jewery ("neo-conservative") with Nazi imagery. Everybody knows that Jews are communists, right? ;-). Except, of course, to a cryptocommie, *everyone*'s a fascist. Must be like eskimos and 19 different names for snow, or something. It has always amused me that libertarians and anarcho-capitalists insist on using the language of the left to describe the things they don't like. One of the reasons that the right in this country has been so successful has been their development of a useful analytic apparatus, and corresponding language, over the past 50 years, certainly more so than the left, which is nothing but marxism, dilluted or otherwise.
Whatever happened to leaving the barbarians to kill themselves, and getting the fuck out of family spats?
When they can't seem to kill themselves fast enough, it's time to help them
along a bit, especially when they start killing *you*? :-).
At the moment force-monopoly is, by definition of monopoly, a hierarchical
market. Hence the "dance with the girl that brung ya" bit. They have
already *stolen* my money, they might as well be doing something with it
that goes back to their existential principle ("a bandit who doesn't move"
as Mancur Olsen says), i.e. the use of force itself instead of bread and
circuses, and furthermore in killing people (and their friends, and the
camel they rode in on) who now have a demonstrated ability to kill me,
personally.
Sure, there's something to be said for the notion that terrorism is some
form of geodesic warfare, but, notice, when you take out certain
nation-states, terrorism subsides. Or, at least, it returns to that
nation-state, where terrorists can be killed faster. Better there than
here, certainly.
So, I would say that geodesic war consists of (bearer settled :-)) cash
auctions for force. That exists in certain, um, informal markets, but
transaction costs aren't low enough for general use yet. I think we're
we're going to get there, though.
Cheers,
RAH
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-- Major Variola (ret):
Is this geodesic neo-conservativism? Where can I start bearer-document goose-stepping?
R.A. Hettinga wrote:
Impedance mismatch. You're using a (now) cryptocommie codeword for Jewery ("neo-conservative") with Nazi imagery. Everybody knows that Jews are communists, right? ;-). Except, of course, to a cryptocommie, *everyone*'s a fascist. Must be like eskimos and 19 different names for snow, or something.
The underlying theory is that Zionism/Neo Conservatism is pretty much the same thing as national socialism, only with "Jewish" substituted for Aryan. There is some truth in the theory, but those so sensitive to the mote in Israel's eye, fail to notice the beam in their own eye - fail to notice that Communism etc is pretty much the same thing as national socialism, only with various oppressed masses substituted for Aryan. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG wCJhHoX6NaUOg9bzELh3wQAX0TvI/0xSpIOmC1vM 4LSyiD05pLm9WYrKDI9oyxCi8ABMK6tMoAkxIOGhU
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