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Posted by nu-monet v9.0 on 07/17/06 01:55
Alric Knebel wrote:
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> nu-monet v9.0 wrote:
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> > Alric Knebel wrote:
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> >>Patriotism is a value that's taught by the state...
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> > Your extended rant against patriotism was definitely
> > taught to you.
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> Hogwash. I was merely responding to your extended rant
> FOR it.
Why don't I believe you? You say you weren't taught your
beliefs, then spout dialectic about how wonderful a system
that has never existed will be.
Internationalism is not only unnatural, it's repugnant.
I've seen what people are like when they are stripped of
their culture, their nation, their tribe, and are left
with nothing. The closest thing to generic humans there
is.
They are utterly expendable. Useless things. Victims of
perpetual starvation and deprivation, unable to live
without the charity of others. The end result of good
intentions, of aid to Africa.
This is "the state of nature", and it is a path to
damnation. It is an evolutionary dead end. Something
that utterly befuddles self-proclaimed "idealists" is
that evolution on what passes for humanity alone is over
100,000 years old. And yet they just know that there is
some better way that has never been done before, but must
be better than the way things have evolved.
So they are completely unnatural in their natural order.
They insist that their fantasies must be the next step
in evolution. A step that waited all these years just so
that they could think it up, and all mankind would swoon
at the brilliance of their ideal.
Occam's razor suggests that it is you and your ideals
that are the failure, that you just can't handle the truth
so you live in fantasy. That you are just wash-outs from
a system that has survived far longer than your life, and
fighting far more powerful ideas than yours--and winning.
Idealists. People who desire to break millions of eggs
based on the idea that somehow they will reassemble
themselves into a cheese and salsa omelet--because they
just *have* to. (And if they don't, it just means that
more eggs need to be broken, and more enthusiastically.)
Idealism is the flip side of greed, the only two sins with
absolutely no limitations. The greedy have no limit in
what they want, and the idealist has no limit in what he
can waste in the pursuit of his fantasies.
--
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http://slackoff.blogspot.com/
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"The Silver Sphere is about twice the size of a
billiard ball. It has a couple of very sharp hooks
built into it. It flies through the air, attaches
itself to your forehead, and digs in. Then a drill
comes out and pierces your skull just above the
bridge of the nose, while blood spurts out the other
end. I hate it when that happens."
-- Roger Ebert
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