tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post6443653421459044794..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Political IdeologiesSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-58621406323457348902009-04-04T23:58:00.000-04:002009-04-04T23:58:00.000-04:00My problem with most of these questions is that th...My problem with most of these questions is that they reflect the spectrum of allowed opinion in American society, and don't go outside those bounds. The questions don't allow for any kind of socialism, for example.Joenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-19344908427132557992009-03-22T17:06:00.000-04:002009-03-22T17:06:00.000-04:00243/400 .... and I wind up mumbling unhappily, bec...243/400 .... and I wind up mumbling unhappily, because my self-image is more "skeptical conservative" than "progressive." I think there's some bias built into that test, to be honest.<BR/><BR/>-mike shuppAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-79642963937549600842009-03-22T12:58:00.000-04:002009-03-22T12:58:00.000-04:00177, which doesn't really describe just how conser...177, which doesn't really describe just how conservative I am when it comes to government. Many of the questions are rigged, having two unlinked parts, so you can't agree with one without agreeing with the other. <BR/><BR/>Yes, America should lead the world in the race away from fossil fuels. No, that doesn't involve signing up for idiocies like the Kyoto protocol, which legally no US Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-60476822190446928622009-03-21T23:15:00.000-04:002009-03-21T23:15:00.000-04:00Oh yea I never mentioned my score. 296, not bad fo...Oh yea I never mentioned my score. 296, not bad for someone who voted twice for Reagan and four times for Bushes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-74563846938463287892009-03-21T21:42:00.000-04:002009-03-21T21:42:00.000-04:00335/400 which is no surprise for anyone who has kn...335/400 which is no surprise for anyone who has known me since the 60'sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-89797995841022412522009-03-21T05:14:00.000-04:002009-03-21T05:14:00.000-04:00Plato:You are right, I did misunderstand your inte...Plato:<BR/><BR/>You are right, I did misunderstand your intent. And I must admit, I often find myself unsure how to interpret your phrasing.<BR/><BR/>So, then, we agree about the corporation... though the image of the Golem may fit even better than the robot.<BR/><BR/>As to your remark about the Chicago School, I guess you are referring to the so-called Freshwater School of Economics. Problem Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-67211151373152209832009-03-21T01:16:00.000-04:002009-03-21T01:16:00.000-04:00Anonymous:The egregious flaw in reasoning under yo...<B>Anonymous</B>:<I>The egregious flaw in reasoning under your heading of "neoliberalism" is that it takes literally the legal fiction that a corporation is a person. Starting from this false premise it reaches the false conclusion that government needs to be bigger and more powerful to deal with these big powerful so-called "corporate citizens."</I><BR/><BR/>You answered what I had already put PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-79994945854752641152009-03-20T20:19:00.000-04:002009-03-20T20:19:00.000-04:00Plato:The egregious flaw in reasoning under your h...Plato:<BR/><BR/>The egregious flaw in reasoning under your heading of "neoliberalism" is that it takes literally the legal fiction that a corporation is a person. Starting from this false premise it reaches the false conclusion that government needs to be bigger and more powerful to deal with these big powerful so-called "corporate citizens."<BR/><BR/>Corporations are not persons. All actions Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-71034043621078807502009-03-20T10:45:00.000-04:002009-03-20T10:45:00.000-04:00Anonymous,Just so you see how the deterioration ha...Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>Just so you see how the deterioration has crept into your thinking, so as to show, my confusion, has also become yours.<BR/><BR/> This is the dualistic nature that has allowed us to intermingle language in constitutions that speak a different language when assigned "to entities" that are real or not? Under law most certainly, but it has escaped the thinking mind to "allow PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-14895776004745032262009-03-20T03:05:00.000-04:002009-03-20T03:05:00.000-04:00Plato:A free man needs no standing army and no pol...Plato:<BR/><BR/>A free man needs no standing army and no police. These are tools of the state.<BR/><BR/>One supports education and interdicts indoctrination simply by boycotting schools that indoctrinate. Most importantly, one refuses to allow the state to have anything to do with education.<BR/><BR/>People who are brought up strong and free are typically sane. The systematic induction of massAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-23468597325315091432009-03-19T21:32:00.000-04:002009-03-19T21:32:00.000-04:00Yes yes yes. One group is us, the other neighbors,...Yes yes yes. One group is us, the other neighbors, in what we would call the future.<BR/><BR/>Libertarian ideas could use a little more heart, they sound too cold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-70279526402870541592009-03-19T20:04:00.000-04:002009-03-19T20:04:00.000-04:00Anonymous,You speak of "the need to empower the in...Anonymous,<BR/><BR/><I>You speak of "the need to empower the individual as to choice and the future," and that is exactly what we need to do! Which, incidentally, is exactly the Libertarian point of view.</I><BR/><BR/>More a "social democracy" perhaps, then a social liberty?<BR/><BR/>I seem to be confusing things in terms of <A HREF="Neoliberalism" REL="nofollow">Neoliberalism</A>. <BR/><BR/>The PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-72824555131361528182009-03-19T18:55:00.000-04:002009-03-19T18:55:00.000-04:00Laura Knight-Jadczyk is a co-owner of a ponerology...Laura Knight-Jadczyk is a co-owner of a ponerology blog too.<BR/><BR/>http://ponerology.blogspot.com<BR/><BR/>Until shortly before the economic collapse became public, they very much realized it was beneficial for their cause to de-emphasize the more esoteric stuff (even though they do study that stuff very scientifically). <BR/><BR/>Given how bad they see things getting, they are emphasizing Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1798976773401589222009-03-19T17:57:00.000-04:002009-03-19T17:57:00.000-04:00Plato:You speak of "the need to empower the indivi...Plato:<BR/><BR/>You speak of "the need to empower the individual as to choice and the future," and that is <I>exactly</I> what we need to do! Which, incidentally, is exactly the Libertarian point of view.<BR/><BR/>The way to accomplish it is to<BR/><I>stop disempowering</I> the individual.<BR/><BR/>Schooling, which sacrifices education for the sake of indoctrination, disempowers the individual.<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-33474770405935664682009-03-19T14:48:00.000-04:002009-03-19T14:48:00.000-04:00WE have discussed Glenn T. Seaborg here before. Be...WE have discussed <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Seaborg" REL="nofollow" TITLE="which led to the current arrangement of the Periodic Table of the Elements.">Glenn T. Seaborg</A> here before. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Best,PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-41515265627680568672009-03-19T14:10:00.000-04:002009-03-19T14:10:00.000-04:00John G. and Anonymous,Maybe a study then of Politi...John G. and Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>Maybe a study then of <A HREF="http://www.ponerology.com/" REL="nofollow" TITLE="PONEROLOGY-THE STUDY OF EVIL">Political Ponerology</A>?<BR/><BR/>See <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponerology" REL="nofollow" TITLE="This discipline makes use of data from psychology, psychopathology, sociology, philosophy, and history to account for such phenomena as PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-33338176398464110502009-03-18T18:26:00.000-04:002009-03-18T18:26:00.000-04:00John G:Perfect example!On the one hand, Laura Knig...John G:<BR/><BR/>Perfect example!<BR/><BR/>On the one hand, Laura Knight-Jadczyk claims to communicate with reptilian space aliens with a ouija board. On the other hand, she makes the following insightful remark about Western populations, which are made narcissistic by the industrial psychologists of Madison Avenue and rendered helpless by the statist legislators of Capitol Hill:<BR/><BR/>"It isAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-68463560801930083122009-03-18T17:06:00.000-04:002009-03-18T17:06:00.000-04:00Plato:You are right that the all-seeing eye, which...Plato:<BR/><BR/>You are right that the all-seeing eye, which appears in the capstone of the thirteen-step pyramid on the Great Seal of the United States and on American paper money, is also used as an occult symbol in certain esoteric teachings.<BR/><BR/>But I was speaking from a very practical point of view, using it as a metaphor for the surveillance society.<BR/><BR/>In your pursuit of higher Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-66192299706332332752009-03-18T15:14:00.000-04:002009-03-18T15:14:00.000-04:00"But your interpretation of the pyramid is steeped..."But your interpretation of the pyramid is steeped in mythical valuations about some eye?:)Some such history that goes back to some blood line and the Grail Cup?"<BR/><BR/>Tony Smith has a friend named Ark Jadczyk who posted a few years ago on Peter Woit's blog (there were two Ark's there back then so you had to be careful). Anyway's Ark's wife has this <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-6493628127310197282009-03-18T12:41:00.000-04:002009-03-18T12:41:00.000-04:00189 Rates conservative, but I'm really more civil ...189 Rates conservative, but I'm really more civil libertarian, as well as a pragmatic, analytical, EE professor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-80658071931494616662009-03-17T23:52:00.000-04:002009-03-17T23:52:00.000-04:00PLato:Well with a new focused perspective on thing...<B>PLato</B>:<I>Well with a new focused perspective on things( this principle always existed, one just did not recognize it.) and a relative position assumed, "a high mountain peak" takes precedence over "confined views" of "dualistic nature contained to the valley."</I><BR/><BR/>For anonymous above, in terms of following the money, most certainly. <BR/><BR/>But your interpretation of the pyramidPlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-71859380511054186362009-03-17T10:44:00.000-04:002009-03-17T10:44:00.000-04:00I got 335 too :)I got 335 too :)Nirmalyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00482736027241310182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-88773049297939757362009-03-17T01:19:00.000-04:002009-03-17T01:19:00.000-04:00Phil:The words you quoted were Eisenhower's, not m...Phil:<BR/><BR/>The words you quoted were Eisenhower's, not mine, but that’s okay -- I quoted him because I agree with him.<BR/><BR/>I don't think there was ever an idyllic Eden that has been taken away from us. Life has always been more or less of a struggle. And there has always been a hierarchy -- a food chain, if you will. However, throughout most of history, its overall geometry has been Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-66975334202028167192009-03-17T01:09:00.000-04:002009-03-17T01:09:00.000-04:00It's amazing to me to see how many people are brag...It's amazing to me to see how many people are bragging about their scores that are way up above 250.<BR/><BR/><BR/>B asked us to comment, so I will. My score was a 90, for which I apologize. It was that high because so many of the questions were ambiguous.<BR/><BR/>Any score above 150 is shameful, deeply, deeply shameful. <BR/><BR/>B. will probably remove this comment, but she should not be Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15001173941283883747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-40164615490559991192009-03-17T00:48:00.000-04:002009-03-17T00:48:00.000-04:00339/400 I am still ticked off at the last preside...339/400 I am still ticked off at the last president, but I lost a few points for not having an opinion of what deists think as long as they do it elsewhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com