Anti-Statism – Geoffrey Allan Plauché, PHD https://gaplauche.com Writer, Editor, Web Designer Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:36:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Amusing Rejoinder to the Communitarian Charge of Atomism https://gaplauche.com/blog/2011/06/14/amusing-rejoinder-to-the-communitarian-charge-of-atomism/ https://gaplauche.com/blog/2011/06/14/amusing-rejoinder-to-the-communitarian-charge-of-atomism/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:39:44 +0000 http://gaplauche.com/?p=1444 Atoms form bonds of varying strengths with other atoms to form molecules. The bonds they form naturally are generally stable, whereas the ones that are forced by men decay rapidly — and give you cancer.

(Embrace it! Own it! :o)

[Cross-posted at The Libertarian Standard; HT fellow TLS blogger Robert Wicks for suggesting the second sentence.] ]]> https://gaplauche.com/blog/2011/06/14/amusing-rejoinder-to-the-communitarian-charge-of-atomism/feed/ 2 Human, All Too Human: A Poem https://gaplauche.com/blog/2010/12/29/human-all-too-human-a-poem/ Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:26:38 +0000 http://gaplauche.com/?p=1273 I wrote this in a strong, rebellious Nietzsche phase in Nov. 1999:

Human, All Too Human

What beast is Man!
Cruel and mean-spirited
Conformity is the master plan
Individuality has faded

To be different is to be outcast
Mindlessly follow the herd mentality
The disease spreads fast
Don’t deviate from the herd morality!

No one questions anymore
Do you know who you are…really?
Name, age, sex, job…categories galore
All aspects of an external identity

Look inside and what do you see?
A pale reflection, shaped and molded
From behavioral controls of society
A forged soul, twisted and distorted

Smother me not with your well-meaning lies
One True Way? It’s a sham
I, myself, will surmise
Who it is that I am

]]> Boston Legal's Alan Shore on Americans https://gaplauche.com/blog/2010/09/07/boston-legals-alan-shore-on-americans/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:01:32 +0000 http://gaplauche.com/?p=1177 In a recent post at The Libertarian Standard, Akiva claimed that people (in general) get the government they deserve. The US is an imperial-warfare state and a growing surveillance-police state, not to mention a nanny-welfare state. Boston Legal’s left-liberal attorney Alan Shore echoes Akiva’s sentiments in a closing argument in defense of, oddly enough, a tax protester (video below). He points out many of the evils of the US governments and their infringements on our liberties and concludes that Americans must be okay with it all.

Maybe it’s because we have the best ‘bread and circuses‘ money can buy and plenty of fiat money with which to buy it. Or maybe it’s because the court intellectuals all sing variations on the same discordant statist song. Or maybe it’s because we all learn the same myths and dogmas and untruths in state indoctrination camps called public schools, if we learn anything at all. Or maybe it’s because most of us lack the moral courage to inconvenience ourselves by standing up for what is right. I think it is some combination of these and other causes. In any event, most Americans seem to be a-okay with the evils of statism — at least so long as their man is in power.

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Cross-posted at The Libertarian Standard.

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