tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32552056.post1628975268090450035..comments2022-03-25T18:46:32.159-07:00Comments on Nihilo Zero: Dignity, Freedom, Idealism & ExpectationsN. Zerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11280089601231142195noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32552056.post-26835510058723104172009-07-04T21:11:09.770-07:002009-07-04T21:11:09.770-07:00Propping up central control of a country?
I h...Propping up central control of a country?<br /><br /> I have no idea where you are getting this idea out of anything I have written. I am not supporting an increase of centralized power in any modern nation state and I think even the most casual observer should be able to see that. I also don't consider anarcho-primitivism as something that is at all consistent with leftism. I think perhaps you are seeing what you want to see but are missing some central points to my positions. As with your comment on my other article (Twitphilia & Twitanoia), it ought to be clear that I am not excusing the left or the right nor am I promoting either.<br /><br /> As for peak oil... you are only hoping that some technology replaces the most important fuel in the history of industrial civilization and I don't think you make a strong case that this will happen with any certainty. Besides that... I listed several other problems, in addition the complex issues of peak oil, that are also leading to disaster. So, even if a suitable replacement for petroleum is found, the byproducts of this theoretical replacement and the continuation of a consumer economy might be even worse than the results of a social collapse brought about by peak oil.N. Zerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11280089601231142195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32552056.post-7921235220500103152009-07-03T16:38:40.695-07:002009-07-03T16:38:40.695-07:00Nonviolence has only ever worked against Christian...Nonviolence has only ever worked against Christianized societies. And also arose within Christianized societies. Not surprising then that it would work within the culture from which it arose.<br /><br />The elevation of nonviolence as a principle that would work in all situations is completely ridiculous to me.<br /><br />Ghandi's nonviolence worked because the British did not want to kill people. Nonviolence against a regime that wants to kill you is ludicrous, as with your Hitler example.<br /><br />Nonviolence against communists has also proven completely ineffective, as in the Tiananmen Square massacre.<br /><br />Apart from that, your fears about a coming oil crash are unfounded, and your radical solutions, if implemented, would be worse. Long, long before we run out of oil, it will be replaced as a commodity by technology in some form. Most likely through algae-based biodiesel or sunlight-produced hydrogen.<br /><br />The basic problem with people like you, and the Left in general, is an incomplete and often false understanding of basic economics. And literature on the Left only reinforces these mistaken ideas. Go read some Thomas Sowell, stop being innumerate. And stop propping up the greatest force of evil the world has ever known: central control of a country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com