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He had a decent sense of humor. But his great appeal to intellectual midwits comes mostly through having his characters babble inanities like “Consciousness is just a stream of binary code.”
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Hi Gene,
ReplyDeletethere's a common trope that goes around that philosophy college professors (like those in the philosophy major) are very left wing. Is there any truth to this? Considering Mike, Huemer, an ancap, works at The University of Colorado Boulder( a public university) and Hans Herman Hoppe also works in a public university( University of Nevada, Las Vegas), it seems like the standards for working in Uni philosophy departments are very low and the weirdo's that couldn't get into other departments just congregate in Uni philosophy departments. What are your thoughts?