tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post2216964227114650211..comments2024-03-27T02:13:58.088-07:00Comments on Integral Options Cafe: Pat Buchanan Makes a Rare Bit of Sensewilliam harrymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06981478282688361274noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post-63997687433812686982008-04-30T18:08:00.000-07:002008-04-30T18:08:00.000-07:00(PPS. In contrast, Progressive politics still conf...(PPS. In contrast, Progressive politics still conflate the Left and Right quadrants all of the time, with huge (albeit unintended) adverse consequences. Ron Paul would call these adverse consequences "blowback", whether it be from the interventionism in foreign policy (increase in terrorism), monetary policy (debt, bubbles, price inflation and lower real wages for the low-middle class), regulation of medicine (expensive and substandard services making money for Big Pharma) or social welfare ("coercive charity" encourages a disempowering sense of entitlement in the receiver and leaves person to person giving to atrophy.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post-22596042131966867622008-04-30T17:49:00.000-07:002008-04-30T17:49:00.000-07:00(PS. I'm not suggesting Pat Buchanan is Integral, ...(PS. I'm not suggesting Pat Buchanan is Integral, I am suggesting he represents a healthy enthocentricity that is generally lacking in the West, and is a basis for stable higher growth. It is "I am proud of the good that I and my culture represent (Left Quadrants), and I am wise enough of it's limits that I am not going to coercively impose them on anybody (Right Quadrants)".)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post-13466469547234257712008-04-30T17:40:00.000-07:002008-04-30T17:40:00.000-07:00Hi,As a long term Integral student coming to appre...Hi,<BR/>As a long term Integral student coming to appreciate paleoconservativism more and more, can I humbly suggest that a more careful look at all of what Pat Buchanan has to say, in it's whole context, is in order. His critique of the severe damage of (Green) egalitarian ideology are right on the dot.<BR/><BR/>http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2008/0425.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post-3920893660333800462007-09-24T16:41:00.000-07:002007-09-24T16:41:00.000-07:00I'm not a fan of data mining, especially when this...I'm not a fan of data mining, especially when this government considers peace protesters to be in the same category as enemy combatants. I don't trust them to simply look for terrorists -- they are also looking for dissenters.<BR/><BR/>And then there's habeus corpous, or what's left of it. You or I can be imprisoned without a lawyer, without charges, simply because Bush says we are terrorists -- no proof needed.<BR/><BR/>The biggest crime in all of this, as Angela points out, is the media's complicity in this, by not exposing the reality of what Bush has done.<BR/><BR/>We can never be safe if we are not free.<BR/><BR/>Peace,<BR/>Billwilliam harrymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06981478282688361274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post-41679140438520790712007-09-24T16:17:00.000-07:002007-09-24T16:17:00.000-07:00There is also no freedom without some degree of se...There is also no freedom without some degree of security. It's a balancing act.<BR/><BR/>If data-mining efforts can yield the names of terrorists, then I see no problem with them. How much freedom are we giving up if the effort is overseen by judges and is high-tech such that only computers are seeing the names?<BR/><BR/>If a nuclear devise brought in by terrorists kills 100,000 Americans, THAT is when the fear mongerers win. An up-tick in security may be freedom's best friend.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13718601770472939313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post-20539891738774736242007-09-24T09:58:00.000-07:002007-09-24T09:58:00.000-07:00An even bigger issue is that the public is afraid ...An even bigger issue is that the public is afraid to question the media and the administration and falsely assume that they are being fed the truth. The Bush administration has expertly manipulated the media like no other and our society is vulnerable to future worse attacks if we do not start to fight back by asking tough questions and demanding answers. This topic really makes me angry ... :)Angelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07030041197784805233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post-16229625382982773332007-09-22T18:05:00.000-07:002007-09-22T18:05:00.000-07:00It's a false choice: if you lose your freedom, you...It's a false choice: if you lose your freedom, you lose your security too. There is no security without freedom.Sedicioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08212751630211620243noreply@blogger.com