While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

[Masada]

All hail the culture of machinery and exploitation.

For someone supporting the unfettered free market... this seems sort of, I don't know, ironic.

 

[Daftpanzer]

I have no intelligence and you are all 100% correct all the time.

 

[Shadowbound]

Education is freedom, Daft.

 

[Daftpanzer]

Education is freedom, Daft.

Very well.

 

[Thlayli]

For someone supporting the unfettered free market... this seems sort of, I don't know, ironic.

Don't you think that things like "free market" and "collective ownership" are more like emergent properties of human society that are both impossible to eradicate but in their purest form more like philosophical ideals which we can only approach by degrees?

 

[Lord of Elves]

I say, don't you think polio is rather like an emergent property of human society which is impossible to eradicate?

 

[erez87]

I say, don't you think polio is rather like an emergent property of human society which is impossible to eradicate?

Are you equating physical things that actually exist to immaterial piratically spiritual things?

 

[Luckymoose]

North King and I have a cabin for Camp NaNoWriMo July if any of you guys are doing it, let me know your username and I'll invite you.

 

[Terrance888]

For him? Doesn't surprise me.

EDIT: I also wish to wrimo.

 

[Thlayli]

I say, don't you think polio is rather like an emergent property of human society which is impossible to eradicate?

Wait, what? They're both polio?

Anyhow my point is that every state on Earth that ever has been or ever will be is Third Wayist to some degree or another, and that they just lean, with varying degrees, in capitalist or socialist directions depending on the society and the political climate. Or more realistically, oscillate between the two throughout the centuries as the inevitable backlashes against each system's weaknesses proliferate.

 

[Luckymoose]

For him? Doesn't surprise me.

EDIT: I also wish to wrimo.

Sign up for the campnanowrimo.org site and I'll invite you.

 

[m.t.cicero]

I say, don't you think polio is rather like an emergent property of human society which is impossible to eradicate?

Who even starts a sentence with 'I say' anymore? What is this, Victorian England?

 

[Shadowbound]

Wait, what? They're both polio?

Anyhow my point is that every state on Earth that ever has been or ever will be is Third Wayist to some degree or another, and that they just lean, with varying degrees, in capitalist or socialist directions depending on the society and the political climate. Or more realistically, oscillate between the two throughout the centuries as the inevitable backlashes against each system's weaknesses proliferate.

Somalia was pretty much libertarian paradise at one point, and the opposite was true for North Korea back during the 90s.

 

[Daftpanzer]

North King and I have a cabin for Camp NaNoWriMo July if any of you guys are doing it, let me know your username and I'll invite you.

Just to be clear guys, this appears to be a 'virtual' cabin, not an actual physical gathering as I first thought when reading Lucky's post

 

[JohannaK]

Oh, man, what I would give for a month in a cabin with other dudes.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Well, you guys might be interesting to chill with...

 

[Lord of Elves]

Wait, what? They're both polio?

Anyhow my point is that every state on Earth that ever has been or ever will be is Third Wayist to some degree or another, and that they just lean, with varying degrees, in capitalist or socialist directions depending on the society and the political climate. Or more realistically, oscillate between the two throughout the centuries as the inevitable backlashes against each system's weaknesses proliferate.

Are you equating physical things that actually exist to immaterial piratically spiritual things?

Markets, poverty and the scarcity of resources are very clearly physical things that social, political and economic philosophies deal with. I don't know whether this is some kind of cop-out on the part of the quoted posters or a reflection of the ridiculousness of post-industrial neoliberalism, vis a vis, "Poverty and inequality are just these ... these things man, like, they're like qualities of the universe or something. Like, they happen on their own, I mean ... if a poor person starves to death in the woods, were they ever really alive in the first place?"

Jesus, you people.

Oh, man, what I would give for a month in a cabin with other dudes.

I'll just leave this be.

 

[Luckymoose]

You only have four days to give me your usernames. I can't hold the cabin closed longer than that.

 

[Thlayli]

Markets, poverty and the scarcity of resources are very clearly physical things that social, political and economic philosophies deal with. I don't know whether this is some kind of cop-out on the part of the quoted posters or a reflection of the ridiculousness of post-industrial neoliberalism, vis a vis, "Poverty and inequality are just these ... these things man, like, they're like qualities of the universe or something. Like, they happen on their own, I mean ... if a poor person starves to death in the woods, were they ever really alive in the first place?"

Jesus, you people.

My kingdom for a reaction gif.

The idea that the poor will always be with us is much older than post-industrial neoliberal capitalism.

I mean, like, pure equality seems a bit more far fetched, brah. Wouldn't that be clones and crap?

 

[North King]

inequality =/= poverty