Dakryn's Batshit Theory of the Week

[Badbird]

First of all, you mean especially. Second, from what I see you post on here, you're in lock step with the ideology of American liberalism, which is represented quite well by the Democratic Party.

I'm not a fan of most Democrats but there a few I like. Hell there one Republican I like as well. I like the Green Party though since the Democratic party is just the same as the Republican party. Not all Democrats are liberal, just like not all Republicans are conservative.

 

[Einherjar86]

Those are what we call moderates, and even if they don't presently adhere to many of the tenets of their party, they will eventually have to if they wants its endorsement in running for a higher office. All candidates inevitably mold nicely into the cookie-cutter caricature of their party's ideal representative.

 

[Badbird]

Well any big name from the two party system has to become moderate at some point, so they can get votes from the other side.

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

And good luck to anyone voting today.

If voting could actually change anything.....it would be restricted, regulated, and taxed.

I agree with this to a certain extent but I always thought voting is strictly regulated by the state with state approved times and issues and with candidates who fall within the main stream of the parties that make up "the State"

I think sometimes the State is not just the government, but the whole political establishment. I know this isn't a very original idea but when we conclude we have met the enemy and they are us, the voters.

The challenge of change is to defeat the major parties at their own game, which seems to be elections. Refusing to compete in that arena will forever mark the movement as fringe.

 

[Prismatic Sphere]

Another great Mencken quote that will make you all smile:


"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

 

[Der Morgenstern]

People who quite Mencken are slightly less irritating than people who admire Ayn Rand. Slightly.

 

[Prismatic Sphere]

Only because he was funnier. Face it though, no other philosopher since Aristotle held the individual as the supreme value in the universe, which he is.

Plato didn't give the individual a second glance. And that is why Plato is the father of the criminal mind just as Aristotle is the father of the honest, business mind.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

Only because he was funnier. Face it though, no other philosopher since Aristotle held the individual as the supreme value in the universe, which he is.

Plato didn't give the individual a second glance. And that is why Plato is the father of the criminal mind just as Aristotle is the father of the honest, business mind.

No other philosopher? Max Stirner would like a word with you.

 

[Pessimism]

Only because he was funnier. Face it though, no other philosopher since Aristotle held the individual as the supreme value in the universe, which he is.

Plato didn't give the individual a second glance. And that is why Plato is the father of the criminal mind just as Aristotle is the father of the honest, business mind.

....wut

 

[Prismatic Sphere]

No other philosopher? Max Stirner would like a word with you.

Here is the evolutional hierarchy:

Platonistic Choice:

-Self-responsibility is feared and avoided
-Man, the individual can be sacrificed to society or to "higher causes".
-Higher realities and unknowables exist; thus rendering man's mind impotent.

Year 300 - Plotinus
400 - Christian Philosophy St. Augustine


1200 - Bonavenure
1250 - John Scott

1550 - Niccolo Machiavelli

1650 - Thomas Hobbes

1790 - Immanuel Kant

1825 - Georg Hegel
1830 - Arthur Schooenhauer
1850 - Karl Marx
1860 - Soten Kierkegaard

1900 - William James
1920 - John Dewey

1960 - Jean-Paul Sartre
1960 - Herbert Marcuse
1960 - B.F. Skinner

Platonistic Products:

-Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Nixon
-Collectivism and censorship, parasitism, pragmatism, fascism, socialism, and democracy
-Oppression and slavery
-Altruism and sacrifice
-Racism, injustice, and wars
-Poverty and decay
-Religion and mysticism
-God, Schweitzer, Nader, and Jesus


Aristotelian Choice:

-Self-responsibility is accepted
-Man, the individual, is the highest value in the universe
-Reality is knowable


Year 500 - Boethius(imprisoned and died)

1000 - Avicenna(attacked by Christians)

1190 - Averroes
1200 - Albert Mogus
1250 - Thomas Aquinas

1500 - Leonardo Da Vinci

1600 - Galileo

1690 - John Locke
1790 - Adam Smith

1860 - John Stuart Mill
1890 - Herbert Spencer

1940 - Ludwig Von Mises
1960 - Ayn Rand

Aristotelian Products:

-Edison, Henry Ford, Carnegie, Jefferson, Coolidge
-Freedom and liberation
-Property and individual rights
-Laissez faire and Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy
-Rational self-interest
-Justice and peace
-Prosperity and growth
-Discovery of truth and knowledge

 

[Prismatic Sphere]

Thus, as no inanimate object(from a rational, reality-integrating individual's perpective) can be a root of any or all evil(i.e. money); I submit that all Platonistic philosophy which has dominated all of our "civilized" landscapes for the better part of 2300 years is the root of all and every evil plaguing mankind today.

It is high time to swiftly and decidely eradicate such mystical thought and philosophical dishonesty from the firmament once and for all.

 

[Badbird]

What does Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Nixon have to do with Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro?

 

[Cythraul]

Here is the evolutional hierarchy:

Platonistic Choice:

-Self-responsibility is feared and avoided
-Man, the individual can be sacrificed to society or to "higher causes".
-Higher realities and unknowables exist; thus rendering man's mind impotent.

Year 300 - Plotinus
400 - Christian Philosophy St. Augustine


1200 - Bonavenure
1250 - John Scott

1550 - Niccolo Machiavelli

1650 - Thomas Hobbes

1790 - Immanuel Kant

1825 - Georg Hegel
1830 - Arthur Schooenhauer
1850 - Karl Marx
1860 - Soten Kierkegaard

1900 - William James
1920 - John Dewey

1960 - Jean-Paul Sartre
1960 - Herbert Marcuse
1960 - B.F. Skinner

Platonistic Products:

-Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Nixon
-Collectivism and censorship, parasitism, pragmatism, fascism, socialism, and democracy
-Oppression and slavery
-Altruism and sacrifice
-Racism, injustice, and wars
-Poverty and decay
-Religion and mysticism
-God, Schweitzer, Nader, and Jesus


Aristotelian Choice:

-Self-responsibility is accepted
-Man, the individual, is the highest value in the universe
-Reality is knowable


Year 500 - Boethius(imprisoned and died)

1000 - Avicenna(attacked by Christians)

1190 - Averroes
1200 - Albert Mogus
1250 - Thomas Aquinas

1500 - Leonardo Da Vinci

1600 - Galileo

1690 - John Locke
1790 - Adam Smith

1860 - John Stuart Mill
1890 - Herbert Spencer

1940 - Ludwig Von Mises
1960 - Ayn Rand

Aristotelian Products:

-Edison, Henry Ford, Carnegie, Jefferson, Coolidge
-Freedom and liberation
-Property and individual rights
-Laissez faire and Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy
-Rational self-interest
-Justice and peace
-Prosperity and growth
-Discovery of truth and knowledge

Cool, GMD's got its very own Glenn Beck now.

 

[Badbird]

Well we got Keith Olberman(cookiecutter) and Alex Jones(Dakryn), so now we have a Glenn Beck (Prismatic Sphere)on our forums.

 

[Einherjar86]

Well any big name from the two party system has to become moderate at some point, so they can get votes from the other side.

Not really. McCain didn't moderate his views in order to gain democratic votes; in fact, he just got more "conservatively insane" as the race went on.

Likewise, Obama didn't pledge some kind of moderate stance. He appealed to liberal/progressive democratic ideals; it was only after he got elected that he started making concessions (because he knew plenty of his bills wouldn't pass if he didn't).

 

[Pessimism]

Pray tell, do I represent some charismatic figure well known in the media sphere?

I hope it's not Roseanne


Edit: McCain switched a lot of his positions before he entered the presidential race; it was not an abrupt switch however. He used to share some moderate positions with Democrats, and then (like Einherjer said) became radically insane as the race progressed.

 

[Einherjar86]

Worse. Oprah. You're a bitch and you're black.

 

[Pessimism]

I am the most blackest Dane/Russian you will ever see sucka.

Oprah has money though man, that can't possibly be me.

 

[Cythraul]

http://www.totalhealthbreakthroughs...declared-too-dangerous-for-human-consumption/

 

[The Ozzman]

Is that article a joke?