Is libertarianism anti-intellectual? (Ron Paul, Israeli, ethic, economic)
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That's the highest of the high, is it? The fullest, most convincing expression of libertarian thinking? That's where you libertarians get all your best ideas?
(You're sure it doesn't all come from penguins, right?)
The squaring of a circle results, mathematically, in a Z-axis pyramid. (There is no other kind)
The squaring of a circle results, mathematically, in a Z-axis pyramid. (There is no other kind)
This is the highest-level libertarian thinking?
Come on, guys - I'm seriously asking here. Who are the intellectual sources of Libertarianism? There must be some. So far, all I've got is Thomas Jefferson and some spacey geometry.
Come on, guys - I'm seriously asking here. Who are the intellectual sources of Libertarianism? There must be some. So far, all I've got is Thomas Jefferson and some spacey geometry.
Well, ya know . . almost everything is context dependent.
Although, ever since Einstein squared the constancy of the speed of light, I've had my reservations about relativity.
Read the Declaration of Independence. There are some pretty good examples of highest-level thinking which is quite congruent with my statements regarding the misperceptions of the "populace", and the proper relationship between them and government.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Oh yes ... and for future references, might I suggest that if you're going to correct someone's spelling, then do so with the person who committed the error .... otherwise you just look foolish misspelling a word in in quotation addressed to someone else.
This was brought about purely by occident.
It is occidental thinking.
It cannot be oriented in oriental thought processes.
Come on, guys - I'm seriously asking here. Who are the intellectual sources of Libertarianism? There must be some. So far, all I've got is Thomas Jefferson and some spacey geometry.
Milton Freidman
William F. Buckley
Walter Williams
Thomas Sowell
James Glassman
Walter Block
Thomas Woods
Lew Rockwell
Ayn Rand
Robert Heinlein
Charles Murray
L. Neil Smith
Dave Barry
P.J. O'Rourke
John Stossel
Hugh Downs
Jay Severin
Clint Eastwood
Kurt Russell
Drew Carey
Tom Selleck
Denis Leary
Russell Means
Woody Harrelson
Penn & Teller
John Laroquette
Tommy Chong
Aaron Russo
David Ruprecht(Supermarket Sweep)
Dixie Carter(Designing Women)
Leah Lail (V.I.P.)
Sean Morley (Val Venis - WWE)
Gary North
Andrew Napalitano
Jeffrey Tucker
The squaring of a circle results, mathematically, in a Z-axis pyramid. (There is no other kind)
What I mean is, a pyramid where when the radius of a given circle is the height of said pyramid, whose perimeter is the circumference of said given circle.
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