(CHT Aragorn!)
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
I lol’d pretty hard.
Smash the tulipocracy!
Seriously, fuck those flowers, man. Always sitting there looking all colorful and shit. They need to be taught a lesson.
Be sure to destroy the tall poppies first, little girl. (/aussieref)
I would like to pull out like all those petals and slooshy it creech blue murder. For being so like boastful.
Brilliant! Reminds me of this: http://www.fupenguin.com/
Speaking of f***ed up things having to with flowers, there’s this gem from John W. Campbell’s Analog in 1968:
“Curious Phenomenon
Why do they call them ‘flower children?’ Flowers look beautiful and smell fresh and clean.”
Well, flowers are naked and their feet (or their heads, if you buy Aristotle’s view that flowers are inverted relative to us — their sexual organs up in the air and their food-intake systems underground) are covered with dirt ….