Before we get to the dangers of Statist thinking, wouldn't we first want to know if we CAN actually question our beliefs. Scientific evidence from neuroscience tells us that conservatives will rationalize rather than examine beliefs critically while at the same time maintaining a complete denial of that fact, if the examination leads into areas they find emotionally distasteful. It could even be that the whole notion that Statist thinking is dangerous could be a CBD creation, I don't know.
Exactly like your fake anti Obama crap....ROFL@MattThat is absolute bullshit and unsupported by any scientific study. You couldn't be more full of shit if you were a septic tank.
Since this thread is going to be nothing but a slam-fest, let's have some fun. List a movie/game that an anarchist can't enjoy because it's "Statist."
No, that's retarded. How about posting your opinion on the OP's vid?
No, that's retarded. How about posting your opinion on the OP's vid? Here are some sample relevant questions you could answer. Is the vid dumb? Why? Which part didn't you like? Was there even a part of the video that you agreed with?
Are my questions now starting to help you see what message board threads are about and how to properly participate in them? So somebody creates a thread about a topic...maybe they reference an article or a video. Then people discuss that topic. The actual topic. It's not "I have decided this thread is now going to be about some unrelated bullshit". That's not how it works.
So, in my (probably vain) attempt to re-rail the thread...what are your thoughts about Statism? What opinions do you have? If people are too retarded to rule themselves, then why should we assign those same retarded people to rule over other people?
Exactly like your fake anti Obama crap....ROFL@Matt
Damn. Too big for a sig quote. Good job!You'll have grains of sand of coherent points in a sea of hyperbolic naivety and disaffected nihilism. If you can't convey your message without resorting to images of slaves being whipped and goose stepping SS troops for every perceived injustice you feel takes place in society, you're no better than the toddler crying his eyes out and screaming when mommy didn't buy him the candy bar in the checkout line. To him, this is the WORST THING TO EVER HAPPEN!! How can mommy DO THIS TO HIM?!? He HATES HER! SHE'S THE WORST PERSON EVER!
This is essentially the mindset, and it doesn't warrant anything more than a wry smile and a quick pat on the head from reasonable adults with real lives and some semblance of credibility.
You're having a tantrum. You're illogical, and it completely removes any and all credibility you may have had because you cannot or will not process and discuss rationally actual facts and historical data, let alone basic societal tenets.
The OP, and the video narrator, are sadly marginalized malcontents. Powerless misfits and impotent internet keyboard commandos. They'll huff and they'll puff and they'll link to Blog X and Poorly Edited Site Y and Melodramatic Youtube Video Z, but at the end of the day they're adult children. As dependent if not more so on the state and societal apparatus they so loathe. They're losers and shut ins, and despite their occasional internet eloquence, they are, sadly yet thankfully, impotent in real world matters.
That is absolute bullshit and unsupported by any scientific study. You couldn't be more full of shit if you were a septic tank.
Damn. Too big for a sig quote. Good job!
I liked the use of the term disaffected nihilism as a fancy substitute for self hate. One of the manifestations of self hate is the need to create some substitute for a lack of genuine self respect, often in the form of the worship or contempt for external authority, opposite sides of the same coin as a means to either substitute for or deny the feeling of self hate. None of that will work of course, but it gives folk something they imagine is very important to do.
To affirm or deny is madness. Consciousness evolution results from the insights that come with their reconciliation. The answers are always the reconciliation of paradox in some third way.
The curtain covering the religious cult called Statism is removed as Larken Rose breaks it down. For those with enough courage to question their beliefs the following is for you.
Statism: The Most Dangerous Religion
Can't be that simple. I and many of my friends were all raised in very conservative, ultra-religious households. Roughly 50% broke free and became very liberal, while the other 50% stayed and are passing the same environment on to their own children. Sample size probably north of 100 people.It would seem an important endeavor to find how one arrived at the starting point in order to proclaim one's existence to be irrelevant in favor of the greater good. It seems there must always be a rationalization [either rational or otherwise] that cultivates a belief. How did this start must be the first question asked and its answer ought then provide the ability to reconcile the reality of the belief within the context of contra belief conditions.
How do Conservatives get to be the way they are and how do Liberals get to be the way they are? Is it as simple as how they were raised or is it much more complex such as some evolved genetic demand? I maintain it must be some combination but weighted heavily in favor of genetically derived brain differences and the consequences of that.
You did notice, I hope, that anything I said no matter how accurate, if you didn't like the emotional implications of it, would be denied absolutely and here you are denying it absolutely.
And naturally, having convinced yourself via multiple rationalizations that that I don't know what I'm talking about, you have pretty much sealed your ignorance behind fortified walls, but the information that demonstrates exactly the truth of what I said can be found, and in your case, wasted here:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0059837#pone-0059837-g002
The CBD war on science is funny. The science that is acceptable to the CBD is otherwise known as group think from altered reality land.
The curtain covering the religious cult called Statism is removed as Larken Rose breaks it down. For those with enough courage to question their beliefs the following is for you.
Statism: The Most Dangerous Religion
The curtain covering the religious cult called Statism is removed as Larken Rose breaks it down. For those with enough courage to question their beliefs the following is for you.
Statism: The Most Dangerous Religion
Careful, Anandtech P&N is a Neo-Keynesian Paradise. You better watch your back if you start saying bad things about increasing the size of the state, comrade.
The accuracy IS your problem. You have come to your own conclusions form the study and somehow that has now morphed into scientific fact.