tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post4119049406901795618..comments2024-03-19T08:42:45.690-04:00Comments on The Delaware Libertarian: Montana Threatens Secession & The Spartan WomenSteven H. Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09097470960863103473noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-52407019118450178482008-04-23T08:46:00.000-04:002008-04-23T08:46:00.000-04:00What I meant is that I like to write about all tho...What I meant is that I like to write about all those types of women...and ladyboys...but none of that is very tame and very little of it comes from my classical education. <BR/><BR/>It comes from living with people in a communal setting where there is an actual and stunning amount of diversity which is tolerated between individuals and within the community without any judgment. One famous anthropologist called it, a "loose-close social network system" it gives the individual seemingly total freedom within severely strict limits. It is not a “western” culture but a mixture of individual freedom and strict obedience. <BR/><BR/>If you define “western” culture as the puritanical witch hunt that the neocons seem to think it is or the narrow social limits of what is “acceptable” I would typically say you are not using your mind analytically enough to embrace the diversity of the world in your thinking. Only the Libertarian philosophy does that. <BR/><BR/>In fact where I lived, even the limited view of individual freedom we have here was called into question as a society that monitors your "social progress" or engineers your "social response" is considered a violation of the individual social compact of freedom. <BR/><BR/>But in a later post I want to bring up this problem of how to deal with states rights and angry men without the implied or real use of violence. <BR/><BR/>In this case I was thinking of a scene from famous Thai historical drama where when the army comes to the renegade province of Chang Mai, the first thing the native people do is send out is all the women with gifts for the soldiers and they wind up pacifying each other without ever fighting and it allows the political and physical survival of Chang Mai and keeps the King's army intact. <BR/><BR/>In the case of Montana, I would argue that the Schwarzenegger should send a legion of women from California to intermarry and pacify the state. :)Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556693043870733177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-27602631898046101422008-04-23T07:15:00.000-04:002008-04-23T07:15:00.000-04:00My guess would be that Fidel fantasizes about wome...My guess would be that Fidel fantasizes about women on Wall Street raiding corporations. :)Delaware Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13619357338844485803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-32865830772631030722008-04-23T01:52:00.000-04:002008-04-23T01:52:00.000-04:00No Dana is right, I like chicks with guns.No Dana is right, I like chicks with guns.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556693043870733177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-43772377417925924302008-04-23T01:09:00.000-04:002008-04-23T01:09:00.000-04:00Dana- I hate to bust the bubble, but I'd like to t...Dana- <BR/><BR/>I hate to bust the bubble, but I'd like to to see your analysis of why Fidel likes chicks with guns too. <BR/><BR/>http://www.flickr.com/photos/herschell/230164793/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-56268090168731699712008-04-23T00:44:00.000-04:002008-04-23T00:44:00.000-04:00Dana,Try laughter....lolz.... there is a world of ...Dana,<BR/><BR/>Try laughter....lolz.... there is a world of difference between the libertarian left, which I discussed before and the objectivist Ayn Rand libertarian who I am consciously teasing; I have no problem with the issues of liberty and equality as a libertarian who follows the classical models of Solon, Jefferson and the Greeks. <BR/><BR/>I am glad you made the connection and saw it for what it was....and in my own twisted humorous way I am very glad you were able to see through it. Try my article about Bolivia, and you will see it is very hard to pin this way of thinking down as it is to pin down a bird in a Zen kind of way....<BR/><BR/>I am just a little disappointed you did not see the tag that said satire. And what of it if I like Amazon chicks....you ever meet one?<BR/><BR/>Thank you for pointing out myfreaky shadow man....Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556693043870733177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-68504905122061946182008-04-23T00:15:00.000-04:002008-04-23T00:15:00.000-04:00It's difficult to see the connection between Monta...It's difficult to see the connection between Montana's threatened secession from the US and your fantasy about FemDoms the autonomous self (although ironically and, tellingly, necessarily conceptualized and presented in the utterly communal medium of language) only to find a Libertarian almost pornographically extinguishing his self in submission to an imagined gun-toting Amazon goddess. <BR/><BR/>But I'm not the least bit surprised. When any political philosophy tenaciously tries to stamp out one pole of human experience & human nature (in the case of Libertarians, self-as-instantiation-of-the -communal)it invariably produces what Jung called the Shadow. <BR/><BR/>One of the features of the intrusion of the Shadow is its intrusion lacks the symmetry and fit in what is intended to be presented consciously.<BR/><BR/>And so we see a Libertarian writer starting out on a matter of personal and states rights suddenly and awkwardly seized by a motif and archetype (your uniformed FemDom figure)who makes others surrender all their rights by force.<BR/><BR/>I repeat, it's not the least bit surprising you found the image irresistible.<BR/><BR/>Nevertheless, posts like yours does my heart good. It makes me glad I am a social democrat and don't have to experience the severity of repressing the communal for the individual or equality for liberty (or visa versa in the case of Marxist socialists). <BR/><BR/>Admittedly, it is not always easy to tell where the weight lies in some situations & w/ some issues regarding the legitimate claims of a community or personal liberty. The adjudications can get nuanced and often don't lend themselves to the excitement that comes from sloganeering. <BR/><BR/>But at least dealing consciously and deliberately w/ the legitimacy of both poles doesn't come out all twisted and weird-like, as in the images of women-as-lone-shooters and as a film of female Maoist soldiers marching in lock-step as part of the people's army. <BR/><BR/>The toll required to deny the word "self" has a legitimate plural must be tremendous.Delaware Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13619357338844485803noreply@blogger.com