:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 ::

"One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless
enemy." -- Frank Shutts

:: Jim Nichols 10/29/2002 09:24:00 PM [+] ::
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A future somewhere in there.... maybe?

My new facination of late has been--and I don't even know what exactly to call it--Sociobiology/neuropsychology/political pyschology. Anyhow for some reason i've become facinated by the whole brain, its genetic facts, the implication of those facts on a human beings reactions, views, beliefs; and the implication of those implications on human relations as a whole. This is, to be quite honest an area to which I have no background knowlage what-so-ever. I'm currently reading a book called How the mind works by Steven Pinker. I find it facinating, but then I read this artical The Origin of Specious And why reductionists are winning the Darwin wars. It just makes me realize how little I know about any of this stuff--maybe thats why i'm really enjoying it.
http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/17/blume-h.html

:: Jim Nichols 10/29/2002 08:48:00 PM [+] ::
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Hey look at that, the Anerican Prospect, has a blog.

:: Jim Nichols 10/29/2002 08:33:00 PM [+] ::
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I've really slacked on the blog. My idea was to learn to better communicate, but it started as a middle man shipping stuff I find intersting, off in neat packages. And since the begining of the semester a place to spit short catch phrases, quotes, and flames. I think I need to try to reattempt to throw up at least something worth wild every day. Consistency, got to work on that consistency--no matter how busy life gets.

Then again as I think of it, I shift quicker than the wind does. I think this is an interesting forum to at least expose those shits, to more honestly understand my inconsistency. Who knows?

:: Jim Nichols 10/29/2002 08:30:00 PM [+] ::
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At some point it becomes a game. One where you go 'and then... and then... and then...' and somewhere you finally find yourself lost. This is the punch-line. But you don't know it yet. This ends up being quite amusing but you won't notice it at first. The question becomes what you want to do with the random nothingness. Questions are useless. But tv advertisements are only posthumously reassessed--that guy that passes you will ask what/when/where/why. Thats where you insert the obvious, the needed, the answers. I guess this is whats called life, but I can't quite be certain. How do you reinvent when you don't know what can change? How do you stop caring, when its not even your brain? At some point it becomes a game, but i'm not sure if i'm there yet.

:: Jim Nichols 10/28/2002 08:57:00 PM [+] ::
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"The aggression and paralysis entailed in conviction, its urgency and anxiety, remind us again that enlightenment is always bounded by encroaching dark, that in modernity truth has never really been fully convinced of itself." -Wendy Brown

:: Jim Nichols 10/26/2002 09:28:00 PM [+] ::
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Something I must remind myself of tonight

"If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting
wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your
parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do." -Henry Rollins

same goes for when you are infatuated with someone, no?

:: Jim Nichols 10/26/2002 08:15:00 PM [+] ::
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Screw it... I think i'm gonna go to UC Santa Cruz major in philosophy and do nothing....

:: Jim Nichols 10/08/2002 11:58:00 PM [+] ::
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LIBERTARIANISM: BOGUS ANARCHY


Libertarianism is
not anarchism, but actually a form of liberalism. It does, however, have
a point of origin that is traceable to the same juncture as anarchism's
marginalization. So in this limited sense there is a shared commonality.
To be more precise, the rapid industrialization that occurred within the
United States after the Civil War went hand in glove with a sizable
expansion of the American state.[16] At the turn of the century, local
entrepreneurial (proprietorship/partnership) business was overshadowed in
short order by transnational corporate capitalism.[17] The catastrophic
transformation of US society that followed in the wake of corporate
capitalism fueled not only left wing radicalism (anarchism and socialism),
but also some prominent right wing opposition from dissident elements
anchored within liberalism. The various stratum comprising the capitalist
class responded differentially to these transpiring events as a function
of their respective position of benefit. Small business that remained as
such came to greatly resent the economic advantage corporate capitalism
secured to itself, and the sweeping changes the latter imposed on the
presumed ground rules of bourgeois competition.[18] Nevertheless, because
capitalism is liberalism's raison d'etre, small business operators had
little choice but to blame the state for their financial woes, otherwise
they moved themselves to another ideological camp (anti-capitalism).
Hence, the enlarged state was imputed as the primary cause for
capitalism's ``aberration'' into its monopoly form, and thus it
became the scapegoat for small business complaint.

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It is no coincidence that Libertarianism solidified and
conspicuously appeared on the scene just after the United States entered
an economic downturn (at the same time Keynesian economics was discredited
and neoclassical theory staged a comeback). The world-wide retrenchment of
capitalism that began in the late 1960s broke the ideological strangle
hold of a particular variant of (Locke-Rousseau) liberalism, thereby
allowing the public airing of other (Locke-Burke) strains representing
disaffected elements within the capitalist class, including small business
interests. Libertarianism was one aspect of this New Right offensive. It
appeared to be something sui generis. Libertarianism provided a simplistic
status quo explanation to an anxious middle class threatened by the
unfathomed malaise of capitalism and growing societal deterioration,

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:: Jim Nichols 10/08/2002 10:02:00 PM [+] ::
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:: Jim Nichols 10/07/2002 02:49:00 AM [+] ::
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