rhetoric

EXTREMISM isn’t the problem–PERVERSION is the problem

Elitist western political commentators and politicians frequently talk about the need to stop ‘extremism’, but this is a deeply inaccurate way to describe the policy, cultural and social malaise from which terrorism can foment and flourish.
The Oxford Living Dictionary defines the world perversion in the following way:

“Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something”.

The Eye of the Beholder: There is Never Anything New

 it is through mimesis, (identification with the mirror image) that one gains a sense of unity, self-containment and mastery over the body. If that was all that there was to it, humanity would be condemned to dwell forever entombed in the hell of mirrors. However, the identification with an Other in the mirror opens out the possibility for symbolic thought.

Electric Media and All at Once-ness: Marshall McLuhan on ‘Our World’ broadcast (1967)

“In McLuhan community is based in pattern recognition, not in the nation state but in fragmented smaller groups, which are most often communities-at-a-distance, in global ecumene. Central here is not the citizen, but the communicant. McLuhan’s nomads are bad citizens. This is also a community of speed: speed as a set of interactions in simultaneity: actions, in not sequence, but […]

Lew Rockwell tones down his anarcho-capitalist rhetoric in favour of more relevant and popular articles

Once a haven of pure anarcho-capitalist rhetoric, LewRockwell.com has had to tone it down as of April 2014, in order to publish articles that people actually care about now that Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign is long over. Where he once had 11-12 articles a day of the same tired, old anti-government rhetoric, he has […]

Lew Rockwell doesn’t even believe his anarchist rhetoric that anarchism is a viable outcome

From this February 23, 2010 Daily Bell interview with Lew Rockwell, he said: “Daily Bell: Is it reasonable to believe that the state will ever wither away or does reality instruct us that the best that can be done is to limit its power? Rockwell: To me, that’s like asking if we can imagine a […]