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Quotebag #95
“However, I am looking forward to the launch of Youwho. I have no idea what it will be like, since it all seems to be a big secret, but at least Ancestry won’t own it. At first anyway…. :/”—MartheLawton “But politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of…
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Quotebag #94
“I’m willing to grant that right-wingers can libertarian (they are really radical liberals), even if I think that their focus on negative liberty promotes an incomplete picture of freedom.”—Dave Hummels “What I wonder: what the fuck is it about the exchange of money that makes people feel entitled to *disrespect*? When I buy services from…
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Degree, not kind
The difference between the totalitarian nightmare of the nation state and the totalitarian nightmare of the business establishment is one of degree, not kind. OK, the latter is more voluntary than the former, making it a lesser of two evils. Always some careerist or other sucker-upper to the business establishment will describe the employment relationship…
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Quotebag #93
“The bottom line is this: project management is a game you can’t win. If you come in way under budget and time, it’s as if everybody is going to think you’re a sandbagger and won’t believe your estimates again.”—David Shirey “[Referring] to humans as an ensuing mob [isn’t] very nice.”—Mikey Hetherington “The various binary distinctions…
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Chaotic good, high fructose corn syrup and large organizations
Jason Lewis writes of the plight of the Chaotic Good, especially when trapped in a large organization. Apparently these are D&D alignments. The most concise explanations of these that I have found are in the form of memes, of which there are many to choose. In case that doesn’t clarify the matter, the good neutral…
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Antilibertarian antistatism
The tag line of the present blog has been changed. It was: “Lack of marketing skills leads to agoraphobia, which leads to anagorism.” Now it says “antilibertarian antistatism.” The previous slogan was introspective and a little self-deprecating. It served a purpose, and now another purpose is to be served. “Antilibertarian antistatism” is an attempt to…
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Quotebag #92
“If you accept that market economies have no tendency to full employment equilibrium, then it follows logically that large-scale automation is most likely to cause serious structural unemployment and a chronic aggregate demand shortfall.”—Lord Keynes “From my point of view, there is simply no way to posit any sort of god (a creature by definition…
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Successful society of atheists or mostly areligious people?
Cliff Arroyo informs us: I usually describe myself as incapable of religious faith (that part of my brain/mind/soul/whatever is just plain missing). But I do have an attraction to a lot of religious imagery and/or practice. I also respect religion and religious belief and it’s clear that human societies function best when some religion is…
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Some notes on thick individualism.
Thick individualism considers the distinction between individuals and firms to be of more consequence than the distinction between small firms and large firms. Thick individualism considers the distinction between individuals and the state to be non-analogous with the distinction between firms and the state. It really sickens me that the word individualism…
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Quotebag #91
“Governments are just window-dressing for the major multinational corporations that actually run the world. They, in turn, are already run by computers.”—whlanteigne “The sooner we restore a society where work is something we do, and not something we’re ‘given,’ a society where we’re in control of our working lives, the sooner we can do away…