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how dare a group of socialists attempt to impress some kinda equality on all citizens

i feel that only the biggest corporations should dictate the terms !

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There's nothing arbitrary about it all. When you look at the colour grey as being a mix of white and black there's nothing arbitrary about the roles played by the elements of black and white.


That's another way of saying the same thing I said and shows that you do understand what these two elements are and that they aren't arbitrary.


Analysing a situation by finding what appear to be fundamental poles at work is not necessarily about seeing one of the two poles coming to dominate exclusively. Looking at the interaction between electrons and protons in an atom involves realising that polar type relationships are fundamental to reality. Now I know that sociology is way less clear than Physics but there really isn't anything unclear about what is meant by left and right in politics. It is clear though that they are often misapplied.


Before I answer that, who is "We" and what do you mean by "tyrannical socialism".

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

There's nothing arbitrary about it all. When you look at the colour grey as being a mix of white and black there's nothing arbitrary about the roles played by the elements of black and white.


That's another way of saying the same thing I said and shows that you do understand what these two elements are and that they aren't arbitrary.


Analysing a situation by finding what appear to be fundamental poles at work is not necessarily about seeing one of the two poles coming to dominate exclusively. Looking at the interaction between electrons and protons in an atom involves realising that polar type relationships are fundamental to reality. Now I know that sociology is way less clear than Physics but there really isn't anything unclear about what is meant by left and right in politics. It is clear though that they are often misapplied.


Poly, I don't know what kind -- if there is such a thing or it's just your attempt at inventing it -- of thing you are trying to propose as a metaphysical analogy in that one paragraph but it is the first and only thing I've ever seen you post that is stupid. Nothing else, just stupid.

--Bat

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Bat, in your post the quote ended up a bit messed up and it looks at the start like you're answering FOWL with exactly my words.

Also, you quoted the whole shooting match so it's not immediately clear which paragraph you're talking about, but I guess it's the last one.



What I'm talking about there, and it was off the cuff - I'm not pretending it's particularly eloquent, is generally called dialectics and it's an idea that's appeared in many guises dating back at least to the Ancient Greeks and Plato and was also discussed by Hegel and Marx among others. The interplay between opposites. Would you care to expand on why you think what I've said is stupid?

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

Granted, the multiple quotation is a mess, so, to clarify this I'll now include which paragraph as I should have:The paragraph directly above my comment. (Specifically, "Dialectics" has it's origin in the Greek phrase, "Dialekte Tekhne" ["(The) art of conversation", i.e., contradictions made apparent by two opposing speakers] found in Plato's Symposium and many centuries later used in a much different, extended sense by G.W.F. Hegel ("thesis, antithesis, synthesis" used to describe "the historical process") and in a very different description of "the historical process" Karl Marx ("Dialectical Materialism").

You made an absurd jump from particle physics the sloppy gibberish of modern socio-political references of "left" and "right" as if they described something as well-established and factual as the behavior of protons, neutrons and electrons. That's not simply comparing *apples and oranges*, it's more like comparing *goldfish and bicycles*.

There, I think I've cleared up any confusion.

--Bat

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It was purely mentioned as a very simple example of a polar opposition that is mutually exclusive. You have to admit that the left/right opposition between the extremes of total social ownership and total private ownership is also a simple example of a mutually exclusive opposition. I wasn't claiming that understanding an atom would help you understand society. I did say, to be fair, "Now I know that sociology is way less clear than Physics".

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

Oh, yes, you did say sociology is way less clear than physics (Although I personally wonder about that!) but I've always had trouble with socialism (the nationalization of ownership, allegedly administered on behalf of the public) and total private ownership. They begin to resemble each other more and more as ownership is held by fewer and fewer. Doesn't the now-collapsed "Global Communist Threat" resemble the Capitalist's ultimate dream? Ownership of many nations with an aggressive aspiration to own all nations with political power held by a very few? And a so-called "Free-Market Capitalism" becoming a "Global Economy" of fewer and fewer "international corporations" in possession of all ownership and all political power held, once again, by a very few?
The names they're known by are very different but aren't they, in practice, entirely identical?

--Bat

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A Thousand Splendid Suns. what an amazing book.

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

If you're saying that the version of Socialism in the Soviet Union was not much better than the Capitalism of the West then I agree. But, just because the disempowerment of the majority of people in the former Soviet Union might be indistinguishable from that in the West, doesn't mean Socialism is indistinguishable from Capitalism. It just means that what was happening in the Soviet Union was a very flawed and limited attempt at Socialism and the human race in general is still a long way from getting it's collective act together.

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

On Writing by Samuel R. Delany.

I think I'm going to read 'Malone Dies' by Samuel Beckett. I'm not sure.

As I see it the historical norm is tumult, war and ignorance accompanied by a very small ruling class while there are only very brief, ephemeral oases of moderation gapping that norm and we're now witnessing how rapidly our own brief respite from the norm can pass.
Not something I find very agreeable at all.

--Bat

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oh, you should. it's an uplifting, feel-good read...

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

Hilarious and interesting.

Oooh peerdiem, Im liking the look of that book....heh.

I'm currently reading a book about Evacuees during the Second World War, which is really interesting. What those poor kids had to go through, they must have been terrified. When you compare those kids and how strong they had to be with the way some kids behave nowadays, it really makes you think.

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Make sure you've read 'Molloy' first, tho.

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I did. It didn't thrill me as much as I thought it would. I'm liking 'Malone' much more so far..though I think after this it'll be another 3-4 months before I try 'The Unnameable'.

(Also, is there a particular reason I should have read Molloy first? I read that Beckett particularly said that he didn't want the three considered a trilogy.)

it doesn't matter what order you read them in.

beckett's writings were always timeless.

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

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Yes, indeed. Talk about timeless books !

South of No North - Bukowski

M'boy bought this for me...aint he sweet.



"Compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI. Published to coincide with the fourth series broadcast in September 2006. If, like Alan Davies, you still think that Henry VIII had six wives, the earth has only one moon, that George Washington was the first president of the USA, that Bangkok is the capital of Thailand, that the largest living thing is a blue whale, that Alexander Graeme Bell invented the telephone, that whisky and bagpipes come from Scotland or that Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain, then there are at least 200 reasons why this is the book for you."

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I"m "reading" (okay, listening to the audio book) of Walt Disney:Triumph of the American Imagination. Interesting so far (13 hours in and it's up to Pinocchio).

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