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Rejecting The Natural/Synthetic Dichotomy
I reject the natural/synthetic dichotomy. The natural/synthetic dichotomy is manifested in two fundamental ways: (1) the assumption that humans and/or human constructs are separate from nature and (2) the assumption that certain human constructs are "natural"...
Posted 11 October 2008 10:34 AM by Brainpolice | with no comments
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Anarchism As Skepticism
"The government is necessary. The government is legitimate. Democracy is representative of the people. Democracy is the best form of government. Majority rule is legitimate. Checks and balances actually function. Voting is meaningful or even an obligation...
Posted 29 August 2008 09:19 AM by Brainpolice | 2 comment(s)
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Walter Block: Wrong on Religion
Walter Block recently wrote an article at LewRockwell.com on the topic of religion and state. He critisizes what he considers to be an irrational hatred of religion that many libertarians have apparently inherented from Ayn Rand. While he is an atheist...
Posted 19 June 2008 11:13 AM by Brainpolice | 5 comment(s)
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Politics Is The Opiate Of The Masses
Theism is not the only kind of mysticism. Collectivist and political ideologies are also forms of mysticism. The nature of politics involves blind faith in a "highest essence". The abstractions of these "highest essences" function...
Posted 03 June 2008 06:38 AM by Brainpolice | 3 comment(s)
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Resolving Anarchist Conflict
Conflict between the socialist oriented and market oriented camps within anarchism can get very tedious. Many anarcho-communists and anarcho-syndicalists appear to emphatically claim that market anarchism isn't truly anarchism, that opposition to...
Posted 05 May 2008 08:57 PM by Brainpolice | 6 comment(s)
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Definitions
So I put together some relatively witty definitions of my terms. If you're not offended by at least one of these, then you are awesome! Constitutionalism - The belief that a piece of paper drafted and signed by a tiny aristocracy of men is a legitimate...
Posted 18 April 2008 01:08 AM by Brainpolice | 4 comment(s)
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Secular Deities and the Problem of Humanism
An atheist criticism of contemporary secularism Most atheists and agnostics still have a religious mindset, only they have replaced the formal concept of a god with other concepts. In the absence of faith in an all-knowing and all-loving god outside of...
Posted 03 April 2008 12:17 AM by Brainpolice | 1 comment(s)
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