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Niall’s Saga
Turns out if Niall Ferguson had the Ring, he’d use it to abolish all Rings. (CHT Gary.)
I don’t think you can get rid of top-down hierarchical systems via a top-down hierarchical method. That’s why counter-economics makes better sense in terms of political strategy. Still, coming from the laudator imperii it’s a move in the right direction. (Though the notion that rulership was indispensable prior to recent developments in information technology is rather difficult to defend in the light of actual history.)
The Atrocity of Hope, Part 13
Alabama Philosophers Invade Florida
The Fall 2011 meeting of the Alabama Philosophical Society will be September 23-24 in Pensacola, Florida. (Why Florida? See last year’s hint.)
My Auburn colleague Mike Watkins (author of the best book ever on the metaphysics of colour – see my remarks here) will be the keynote speaker.
Papers can be submitted either to the regular program or to the undergraduate essay contest. Submission deadline: 7/22; hotel reservation deadline: 8/30. More details on the website.
The Atrocity of Hope, Part 12
Sheldon Richman writes:
In Tuscaloosa Obama said he’s never seen such devastation. Doesn’t the Pentagon show him the bombing reports?
Gary’s Conscience Is For Sale
Gary Chartier’s excellent book Conscience of an Anarchist has been available for a couple of months, but I’m only getting around to plugging it now. Plug, plug.
Some endorsements:
“I’m absolutely giddy about The Conscience of an Anarchist; this book could electrify a generation!” – Brad Spangler (Center for a Stateless Society)
“Given the popular myth that anarchists are masked kids in Circle-A T-shirts smashing windows, this book couldn’t have come at a better time. Clear and easy to understand, it’s the best basic explication of anarchist ideas since Alexander Berkman’s The ABC of Anarchism.” – Kevin A. Carson (author, The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand)
“The best of the political ‘conscience’ books.” – Stephan Kinsella (Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom)
“Anarchism, it has been said, is the radical notion that other people are not your property. Gary Chartier eloquently demonstrates that, far from being a recipe for disorder – as the centers of power self-servingly wish us to believe – anarchism is rather the surest foundation for social cooperation, freedom, prosperity, and peace.” – Sheldon Richman (author, Tethered Citizens)