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Ayn Rand was a good writer. Atlas Shrugged is a compelling, well-written masterpiece of literature, fiction but still takes the moral point across. I was not saying the book was crap. There... happy? :D

Morality - what others think you should do, social control, collective opinionating, forced consensus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shame_society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt_society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality Morality comes from religion and other authoritarian control...

See model theory - the implications of Incompleteness is that no logical system can contain/model "everything". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_logic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundness And...

US nationalsocialism? The US certainly does not lack symbolism or nationalist chanting... and they lock frighteningly socialist today as well! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialism :eek: For being nationalsocialism: anti-parliamentarism - CHECK Pan-Americanism -...

What most people don't understand is how the RAND Corporation has been gearing scientific research towards social control. So called non-lethal weapons like Tazers, pepper-filled paintball bullets etc. It has all a nice ring to it. Try to stage a 1960s style civic movement protest... you...

I totally agree. Objectivism is more about cult-followers. Impressionable young people becoming infatuated. They use strong logics - but we who know logic a little better know about Gödel's incompleteness theorem and model theory.

Why doesn't the US let Hawaii have it's independence? And why can't Alaska have their independence? At least Hawaii was brutally robbed by corrupt privateers, and the native Hawaiians are being marginalized... They have frequent and sometimes violent protests against the US oppression, and...

I have an apartment in São Paulo - and "Grande Sao Paulo" is more than 24 million people... I have only been into Karelia of Russia, when I worked a while for Nokia Telecommunications R&D in Finland.

Greenspan was rightly here disciple - one in her choir of tight-knit followers. Later he departed from the flock, and Objectivists shun Greenspan nowadays - see www.capmag.com and Salsman. Greenspan got involved in the building of castles-in-the-sky by straying from the hard-core capitalism...

I have some friends who go to the Objectivist annual conference in the US every year, and I talked to them, unfalteringly and fiercely loyal as they are to Objectivism. I think that "the common good of capitalism" is isomorphic to the integrity and sustainability in a systems model of...

Actually, even Colin Powell yesterday said that it was Saakashvili. But as we know - through support and military advisors, you can get a lot done. Normally there are not the populations that declare war on each other - there are corporations and other interests who do the preliminaries... ALL...

How can anyone say Asian people are not smart and hard working? The FEAR that the US has for its position in the world is its worst enemy. Paranoia is the thing that gets you in the end.

My €0.02 : Russia can thank common sense and some newfound social stability for their markets today. They also got out of the emerging clutches of saturating corruption that was getting a foothold in the Heartland just after the Soviet collapse. Russia is structuring themselves to be a player...

WW3 with quest for world domination ended last week - you missed it. Understand the speech of Rumsfeld and the books of James Burnham before you speculate yourself back on the street. http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=1206 It was a global war of ideas -...

As an outsider to both the US and Russia, and even outside Europe since the new millennium, I would like to say that the US is saturated with symbolism and nationalism not much unlike another large nation in the early 20th century. They also have an uncanny loyalty and idolizing of their...

LMFAO! :D It reminds me of some of the Horse-style movies from Vietnam that my first martial arts instructor had... I wish I had more of a clue before getting my ass whooped in a full contact competition with Viet Vo Dao people... the bastards. I also trained Sambo for roughly 18 months...

I was looking at the RTS and MSE last week. Deutsche Bank have relations with RTS, but I'm not sure about other representations, and how to get e.g RTSI elsewhere? Is it part of a FORTS package somewhere in the west? From what I can understand of Russia today - the population value...

The end of the Cold War meant socioeconomic common sense - there was rightly a peace dividend. In other words it was getting to a more balanced state in relations - and end of hostilities made perfect sense to everyone. That is just human nature, and evolution on a larger scale.

The "smart" old-money yelled: "Don't rock the boat!" They opposed the fanatical Neocons introduction, and the other old-money (mainly paleocons) supporting them. Smart old-money like George Soros etc. However, the Neocon ideology is that they - and only they - are equipped to lead. So...

We are now witnessing the start of stricter resource controls because of the failing of trust internationally. Brazil does not want to join OPEC, because they want to do the refining themselves. That means more of the "loop" in Brazil. Russia also is big on resources, and are developing...