Typical election fraud
Politics, always so dirty. What we need is everything privatized, purely private communities...
Oh, wait, Wild Acres is a private community. Never mind.
Oh, wait, Wild Acres is a private community. Never mind.
"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
I'm glad you brought this up, because I've actually been doing something about what a world filled exclusively with "private" communities would look like and I don't think the idea quite pans out. It would seem as if it doesn't quite make sense to call a community "private" if it isn't within the context of a larger "public". So, an ancap community would seem like it would have its own "public" property.
ReplyDeleteJoe, not sure who that remark was addressed to, but it didn't seem substantive.
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