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"It seemed like a good time to watch V for Vendetta again. Then it seemed that V's little televised speech on the fifth of November has a lot of good in it, and I thought just writing it down would be a useful exercise. But I didn't want to sit and transcribe the good parts. I'm lazy that way. So I Googled the screenplay and found an early draft of the script. The early version has some good stuff, too ..."
http://bwrmontag.blogspot.com/2006/09/where-power-lies.html
"Richard Branson showed off a model of the interior of his space tourism company's SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceship at a technology show in New York this week. It's the first public display of any kind of SpaceShipTwo. The vehicle is being built in private by aviation designer Burt Rutan in California's Mojave Desert. Test flights are expected to begin late next year, with the first tourist flights in 2008."
"If you can't be inside the Pentagon, encourage those you know inside that system to do the right thing, the constitutional thing, the productive thing. The American people don't want war or the destruction of Iran. We don't want to be responsible for even more hatred and rage in a strange and alien place most never intend to retire to, or even visit. We certainly don't want to be sent the bill for this administration's desire for destruction and the nervously salivating Congress's desire to be seen as something, anything, but what they are."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski159.html
"Somewhere in the space between androids and orangutans there are human beings. But that isn't to say that there is one correct way to balance impulse and deliberation. There are many kinds of good lives, and different forms of life strike a different balance between 'hot' and 'cool' decision-making. As Aristotle notes, we should all eat neither too much nor too little. But too much for you might be just right for Milo, the champion wrestler."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6707
"It seems almost certain that, at some point, the Supreme Court will hear a case to challenge the legality of this legislation, but even this is questionable. If a detainee is not allowed access to a fair trial or to the evidence against him, how can he bring a legal challenge to a court? The legislation, in anticipation of court challenges like Hamdi and Hamdan, even includes severe restrictions on judicial review over the legislation itself. The Republicans in Congress have managed, at the behest of Mr. Bush, to draft a bill that all but erases the judicial branch of the government. Time will tell whether this aspect, along with all the others, will withstand legal challenges."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906J.shtml
"The prize for the headline of the year goes to today's Washington Post for the following gem: 'Many Rights in U.S. Legal System Absent in New Bill' The Post article on the military tribunal bill the Senates passed yesterday details some of the legal and procedural rights that people seized as 'enemy combatants' will not possess."
http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/09/29/happy-dictatorship-day/
"An elementary tactic of those in power is to sow dissent, so that those they rule become fearful of each other rather than angry at the rulers. The idea that millions of Mexicans threaten our freedom more than a few hundred congressmen is laughable. Mexican immigrants are willing to uproot their entire lives and leave their country behind just for the chance to breathe free! The idea that immigrants don't appreciate freedom, but the average complacent, state-indoctrinated native does is patently false."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/molyneux/molyneux2.html
"In 2002, U.S. District Court Judge Norma Shapiro agreed with New Jersey and ordered Chadwick's release on the grounds that continued imprisonment would not produce the money. Judge Samuel Alito -- now of the Supreme Court but then with the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals -- overturned Shapiro and found instead that Chadwick's incarceration should continue as long as the courts believed he was able to pay."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,215919,00.html
"Many of us may think that the external constraints placed on us by government are the main (or perhaps the only) obstacle that stands in the way of our liberty. To the contrary, the most brutal gulags, the most oppressive taxes, and the most insufferable degradations are perpetrated not by some external government, but by our own minds against ourselves. The suffering that people bestow on others arises directly from the suffering that they inflict upon themselves. This goes a long way to explain why humanity is still shackled to government."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/sampognaro/sampognaro2.html
Ethnocentric? For sure, but this article also cuts to the heart of things, a sample: "To those who call themselves libertarians and at the same time call for the exercise of state power to control movement, and to deny the right of property and the freedom of association, I actually have less to say that is fraternal or comradely. I will say to my present readers, though, that the example of those false libertarians -- alongside the examples of other 'libertarians' who support Bush's War and of still others who confine themselves to tinkering, technocratically, with leviathan -- has made me reluctant to continue describing myself as a libertarian. A better choice, I am coming to believe, is for consistent partisans of freedom and justice to describe ourselves as anti-statists, or, better, just anarchists."
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/lights145.htm
"Road funding has been mismanaged by politicians long enough. The inadequacies of politically inspired projects such as Boston's $14.6 billion 'Big Dig' are now apparent to all. Roads are too important to be left to the vicissitudes of politics."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1822
"[A]s usual, the silver bulleteers are thinking in terms of states. They argue not only that Fourth Generation entities need sanctuaries, which is true, but that those sanctuaries have to be in states, which is not true. On the contrary, stateless regions provide the best sanctuary Fourth Generation forces can hope to find."
http://www.counterpunch.org/lind09292006.html
"Public schools have been a focus of the civil rights struggle, but many homeschooling parents said they are disillusioned with the system's failure to improve. 'Some educators and families think that because blacks fought so hard to get equal access, we shouldn't abandon it,' said Jennifer James, a North Carolina mother who in 2003 started the National African-American Homeschoolers Alliance, a 3,000-member, nonreligious group that provides information for homeschoolers. 'But times have changed. It was a great step, but we have to think about our kids'."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/25/MNGLCLC58S1.DTL
"Laura Lund had her fourth child -- her fourth girl -- in her parents' house in Provo under the watch of midwife Suzanne Smith. There were no bright lights. There were no drugs. There were no doctors roaming in and out. What she did have were candles, a warm bathtub and her three daughters asleep in the next room."
http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/194211/4/
"Though the movement for Vermont secession that Naylor helped launch nearly three years ago is little more than an intellectual exercise, it is entirely earnest. Its members argue that the U.S. government has lost its concern for individual citizens and small communities. "
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20060925/REPOSITORY/609250351/1002/NEWS02
"In a strongly worded response to comments by the Iraqi oil minister, the premier of the autonomous Kurdistan region said he 'resented' the remarks by Hussain al-Shahristani and accused him of trying to 'sabotage' foreign investment in Kurdish oil."
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2135284&C=mideast
"Cowards and slaves, giving up our most ancient freedoms to a dull-eyed, dim-witted pipsqueak and his cohort of bagmen, cranks and degenerate toadies. For make no mistake: despite all the lies and distorted media soundbites, the draconian strictures of this bill apply to American citizens as well as to all them devilish foreigners."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=860&Itemid=135
"We always said these color-coded 'revolutions' were made in Washington, and now that they have all been betrayed in Washington and on their home turf, our view -- not exactly a popular one at the time these 'revolutions' were occurring -- is confirmed. The people of these countries still suffer and are in virtually all cases worse off than before: the only achievement they can rack up to date is the prospect of NATO membership, or, in the case of Kyrgyzstan, increased aid."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9768
"On the basis of no evidence whatsoever, the U.S. government secretly sent a young man to a country known for torturing prisoners. But have no fear: the government 'sought assurances' about his treatment in Syria -- what kind of assurances? This is the same Syria with whom the U.S. government refused to speak during the recent Israel-Lebanon war. Bush will outsource torture to Syrian President Bashar Assad, but that is the extent of the diplomatic relationship. This is all said to have been done according to law."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0609h.asp
"Returning from Tunisia on September 26, 2002, Arar was detained at New York's JFK International Airport and held for 12 days. Concluding that Arar was a member of Al Qaeda, the Immigration and Naturalization Service sent him not to Canada but to Syria, where he was born, despite his repeated objections that he would be tortured there."
http://www.reason.com/sullum/092706.shtml
"The following is a brief guide to the Republican mind-set. Pound these statements into your brain until you believe them. Having accustomed yourself to ignoring facts, imposing double standards, and embracing contradictory beliefs, you'll then have the capacity to believe just about anything. And that's important, because the secret of thinking like a Republican is believing everything the President says."
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1957
"Florida Rep. Mark Foley's resignation came just hours after ABC News questioned the congressman about a series of sexually explicit instant messages involving congressional pages, high school students who are under 18 years of age. In Congress, Rep. Foley (R-FL) was part of the Republican leadership and the chairman of the House caucus on missing and exploited children. ... Federal authorities say such messages could result in Foley's prosecution, under some of the same laws he helped to enact." Perhaps occasionally justice happens even in politics.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/exclusive_the_s.html
"Given all the glorification being bestowed on three U.S. senators for displaying 'principle' in standing against President Bush's plan to amend the Geneva Convention to permit torture of detainees, followed by their quick compromise abandoning any semblance of principle, it is easy to lose sight of something much bigger: The military tribunals that the president and the Congress are set to approve will constitute the most radical, dangerous, and disgraceful transformation in the U.S. criminal-justice system since our nation's inception."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0609g.asp
"A good intelligence professional would stand by and defend the best judgment of his trained intelligence analysts and himself, but alas, Negroponte is also one of the president’s political appointees. So by clouding the matter, he is attempting to lessen the erosion of public confidence on the one issue on which Republicans and the President outpoll the Democrats: effectiveness in fighting the war on terror."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1821
"Pirate radio is radio without a license, radio without government regulations. It's 'america the criminal' at midnight on Human Rights Radio in Springfield, Illinois and pre-dawn erotica on Freak Radio in Santa Cruz, California. It's an inordinate amount of Frank Zappa at WFZR in West End, Pennsylvania, (a station dedicated to playing his music) and the 'Voice of the American Patriot' ('no support for liberals disguised as wannabe Conservatives') at NLNR in Butte, Montana."
http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71843-0.html?tw=wn_index_5
"People have a natural drive to enter alternative states of mind, argues Richard Boire from the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics in Davis, California. 'The role of governments is to prevent harm to people and society from dangerous drug use. I think the government has lost sight of this and now thinks its role is to stop people from entering other mindsets'." [TE: Preventing "harm" leads to thinking of prohibition.]
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19125711.000
"Witty, fun, and wonderfully informative, you'll finish this book faster than you finished any book on evolutionary psychology you've ever started. And if you've never picked up a book on evolutionary psychology, this book will mislead you into thinking that the field is hilariously informative."
http://www.biorationalinstitute.com/shownews.php?nid=1344
"I'll bet the video store in his town is open Saturday. How many residents are priced out of the DVD rental market? He can pave his own driveway only because the voluntary social cooperation we call the division of labor produces the tools and materials necessary for the task. I doubt Harley could have made them himself. But, then, why can't the same social cooperation pave the streets too? No, he probably can't afford a fire truck or an ambulance. But does he own a 747 to fly him to California? Why does voluntary social cooperation work in providing one service but not the others?"
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=811
"While we tend to think of the reservation system as applying only to American Indians, in truth, it is the system that is used in an attempt to deal with nearly all poor Americans, and nowhere were the failures of the reservation system more apparent than last year's Hurricane Katrina debacle in New Orleans. Indeed, we can say that the aftermath of the disaster (not to mention the flooding, which came from the breakage of government levees) was a massive government failure -- but not the failure that is commonly associated with Katrina."
http://www.mises.org/story/2324
"Quite simply, national standards -- or government-imposed education standards at any level -- are at best doomed to mediocrity. The way government shapes policy preordains failure. For one thing, the compromise demanded by democratic politics will always require that the nation's numerous ethnic, religious, pedagogical, and other groups be accommodated in the creation of standards. This is perhaps as it should be, but it inevitably pushes standards to lowest-common-denominator levels."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6703
"In a report released on Tuesday, the Forum said Washington's huge defense and homeland security spending commitments, plans for further tax cuts and long-term potential costs from health care and pensions were creating worrisome fiscal strains."
"The health care in America isn't a pretty picture. A leading nutritionist has written a book that suggests the situation is even grimmer than we might think. For example, he is convinced that one of the biggest obstacles to better national health care is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration."
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/body/26834
"But who precisely benefits in the end? Fundamentalists, to be sure, but also the federal government, which gets more power and control. There is also a critical financial factor. The tens of billions that have been shoveled out by the public sector to the private sector in this war have gone mainly to Bush-connected corporations and elites. They are the ones who have benefited from the 'privatization' of the war, in the name of efficiency."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/war-failed.html
"[T]he Senate-White House torture deal should cause Americans to doubt the moral basis of their entire government. After 9/11, many Bush administration officials seemed determined to use any and every means to bludgeon people suspected of terrorism or terrorist intent. The Justice Department delivered to the White House a memo in August 2002 explaining why Bush was not bound by the War Crimes Act or the Anti-Torture Act."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0609f.asp
"War is indeed the health of the State, because all states are simply instruments of coercion. It is precisely in time of war that governments exercise their core function, which is the large-scale deployment of organized violence. The efficient delivery of this violence, in such places and instances as required, demands a highly centralized, authoritarian command structure, one ideally suited to the mindset and proclivities of our Bizarro Conservatives in that it brooks no dissent."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9758
"Success in war is now about winning elections and 'staying the course,' even if more Americans feel less safe, military victories are non-existent, terrorists are coming out of the woodwork and the costs, both in dollars and lost prestige, would sober a Roman emperor. But when your party demands redemption, and that means becoming a war president, then duty and patriotism demand you find a war. And the war on terrorism, like the war on drugs or the war on poverty from an earlier time, offers the same permanence as today's never-ending electioneering, perfectly fitting the Bush requirement to appear strong, decisive, and presidential."
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-becker240906.htm
"In fact, they were the most politically exploited generation (my dad was born in 1919, my mom in 1926) in American history. Growing up in the shadow of the mechanized mass butchery their parents had called the 'War to End War', their earliest memories, for the most part, were of the 'Great Depression', a worldwide economic collapse most of them never really ever understand had been caused by the very leaders they adored and their mercantilist cronies--exactly the same sort of tight circle we see today with George W. Bush and his big business buddies."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle386-20060924-01.html
"Brutus accurately described both the cause (the absence of sufficient enforceable restraints on the size and scope of the federal government) and the consequences (expanding burdens and increasing invasions of liberty) of what would become the expansive federal powers we now see all around us."
http://www.mises.org/story/2335
"That's one small word for astronaut Neil Armstrong, one giant revision for grammar sticklers everywhere. An Australian computer programmer says he found the missing 'a' from Armstrong's famous first words from the moon in 1969…."
http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71885-0.html?tw=wn_index_7
"Cooper was a prolific and lucid writer. Even people who are unfamiliar with guns but love good writing would do well to study his books.... He was the recipient of the 1995 American Handgunner Award and St. Gabriel Possenti Society Award. St. Gabriel is the patron saint of shooters. He held himself to high moral standards and demanded the same of others. He could and would defend articulately his strong views on life, liberty and honor and did not suffer lightly fools who couldn't do likewise." The same paper also ran a more standard obit.
http://prescottdailycourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=36&SubSectionID=73&ArticleID=41282&TM=25537.86
"Until U.S. soldiers concede that the war was a grave mistake, they will keep on fighting. Until U.S. soldiers accept responsibility for their actions, they will keep on killing. Until U.S. soldiers understand that the state is a lying, stealing, and killing machine they will continue their state-sanctioned death and destruction. Until U.S. soldiers realize that they are but cannon fodder for the state, they will keep dying for a lie. And until young men and women acknowledge that the U.S. military has become -- through its wars, interventions, and occupations -- the greatest force for evil in the world, they will keep joining the military to get that enlistment bonus or that money for college."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance91.html
"In 1951, the Iranian parliament nationalized the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh helped carry out the nationalization. In 1953, newly-elected U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, as a favor to the British government, had Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. and Kermit Roosevelt (the latter a CIA employee and a grandson of Teddy Roosevelt) use U.S.-taxpayer dollars to help fund anti-Mossadegh riots. Operation Ajax worked, and the shah, a U.S. government ally from the start, was installed as the dictator of Iran. These facts are relevant for someone who wants a 'candid, open, and factually correct discussion'."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=9742
"The fact that a Republican White House should favor a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage is indicative of the moral authority current conservatives assign to the federal government. For them, the premise of the Constitution--limiting the power of government--is less important than the moral imperative. This contradiction, I would suggest, is one of the two great challenges modern-day America poses to a young conservative mind. The other one is the tension between the passion for limiting government and the belief in military intervention abroad--the warfare state. This is a contradiction to which Goldwater himself succumbed."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1823
"While the country was still effectively controlled by the military Junta he headed, the [rubber]-stamp legislature passed laws granting amnesty to those officials who had committed torture and murder during the 'state of exception' to constitutional rule. The amnesty laws also granted lifetime 'legislative immunity' to members of Parliament, including, of course, Senator Pincochet."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00436.htm
"His early commercial stories about young love introduced a fresh character: the independent, determined young American woman who appeared in 'The Offshore Pirate' and 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair.' Fitzgerald's more ambitious stories, such as 'May Day' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,' were published in The Smart Set, which had a small circulation."
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html
"Director Steven Spielberg once described him as 'one of our great filmmakers, not just for the art and passion he put on screen, but for the impact he has made on the conscience of the world'."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kramer
"IN COLD BLOOD sold out instantly, and became one of the most talked about books of its time. An instant classic, IN COLD BLOOD brought its author millions of dollars and a fame unparalleled by nearly any other literary author since."
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html
"While dancing in Paris, she was spotted by Hollywood choreographer Hermes Pan and signed to a role in the movie 'Can-Can (1960)'. While rehearsing for the movie, Soviet Premier Khrushchev was invited to watch the then unknown Prowse and others rehearsing their steps. The next day, he denounced the dance as immoral and it was Prowse's photo that accompanied the news across newspapers worldwide."
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0699120/
Historical military action / adventure stars Kirk Douglas, Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov; based on a novel by Howard Fast, screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, directed by Stanley Kubrick. "The large and truly excellent cast portray realistic characters loosely drawn from historical events. An actual slave revolt against Rome, that day's dominant superpower, provides the story.... The great cast, outstanding script and memorable score provide the elements from which one of film's greatest directors: Stanley Kubrick, created this masterpiece."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/spartacus_1960.htm
I love Rogers & Hammerstein movies and music, Warren does a very, very good version of Happy Talk.
http://imaginarybomb.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=134775
"The big difference between the two versions is that the original seriously questions whether the ends (giving everybody a 'free lunch') justifies the means (murder, perhaps?), while the remake seems to convey the message that a little evil now and then, in the service of a greater cause, should be tolerated. The original also emphasizes the corrupting nature of exercising government power, illustrated by the descent of Willie Stark from an idealist fighting corruption as a private citizen into a depraved political animal using the law of the jungle to justify any means necessary to keep his power."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/bank/bank3.html
"Middle America takes up four years after The Third Revolution. Governor Ben Kane, who led several states out of the union in a freedom-driven secession movement, is now former Governor Ben Kane -- back in the restaurant business but with an eye always on, and an involuntary finger always in, politics."
http://knappster.blogspot.com/2006/09/book-review-middle-america-is-upper.html
Iraq is not going well, according to the report "Bear Determined to Defecate Inside Woods."
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=76003
"A recently released Pentagon report is raising new worries that Iran has been operating several large facilities designed solely for the purpose of enriching mass quantities of high-grade students. 'We have reason to believe that specially trained Iranian science teachers are taking raw, unrefined brain power and bombarding it with knowledge at accelerated levels,' said U.S. Undersecretary Of Defense For Intelligence Stephen Cambone at a Tuesday press conference."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53276
"In a dramatic development that has come as a surprise to pundits and the public alike, a youthful technician with Diebold, Inc. has emerged as the unlikely winner of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. The president-elect, 19 year old Billy Pustule of Green, Ohio, reached via SMS at the garage apartment by his mother's house in which he currently resides, said he was 'real psyched about being the president' and 'had big plans for the inauguration party'."
http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=281
"While the dismissal of the previous judge, Abdullah al-Amiri, raised eyebrows in legal circles because it suggested to some that the Iraqi government was trying to predetermine the results of the trial, the selection of a kangaroo from the Sydney Zoo in Australia did little to allay those concerns."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6594
"As I was driving home, it occurred to me that a good amount of pro-freedom messages can probably be seen as similar to my experience with the doctor. I'm sure I've blindsided—and probably scared off—many freedom-curious individuals by throwing too much information at them too fast, rather than interacting with their individual questions and concerns. I imagine that many thinking people see some libertarian endorsements for (or at the least, tolerance of) inherently statist systems like concealed carry permits, school vouchers, and copyright/patent monopoly protectionism, and see something similar to the Thing P/Thing R situation
I found myself in."
http://www.sunnimaravillosa.com/archives/00000804.html
"The United States does not look real happy just now. It is a lower-middle-class country with an upper-middle-class income, except the credit cards are maxed out and people are in debt up to their gills. They don't read much. ... It is a purely consumer society. There is not much to life out there except buying things. Granted, a medieval serf would have regarded this as a problem much to be desired, but it leads to a certain bleakness today. ... A suspicion dawns that something somehow isn't right."
http://www.fredoneverything.net/Cultural%20Psychiatry.shtml
"The phrase 'easy on the eyes' may hit closer to the mark than we suspected. Experiments led by Piotr Winkielman, of the University of California, San Diego, and published in the current issue of Psychological Science, suggest that judgments of attractiveness depend on mental processing ease, or being 'easy on the mind'."
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/soc/brain06.asp
"Scientists in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University have discovered a new technique to let them watch, visualize and precisely measure a key oxidant in animal cells, an important breakthrough that could dramatically speed research on everything from Lou Gehrig's Disease to heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and aging."
"Any religion can be adulterated from an inner experience of the heart to a machine of suffering, destruction and even mass death. I don't know anything about Hinduism, Islam, or Wiccanism. I know little about Judaism and Buddhism. I have a lot of personal experience with Christianity, so I'll limit this discussion to it."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/fontana/fontana8.html
"My vision of Prometheus as a newsletter features cool cover art with cutting edge articles and reviews within. I don't always get artwork for the cover, and as you can see from these three samples sometimes the newsletter leads off with the article on the front page."
http://firebringer.blogspot.com/2006/09/prometheus-covers.html
"The Konrads had appealed under Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 of the Convention which states, 'No person shall be denied the right to education. In the exercise of any functions which it assumes in relation to education and to teaching, the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching is in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions'."
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/sep/06092708.html
"I think the root cause of these kinds of fallacious arguments is that our brains are not wired to think social systems in statistical terms. In the primitive tribes that shaped the human brain, decisions were made by a tribal leader, and peoples' confidence in the correctness of the decisions was based on their personal trust in the judgment of the chief. We're conditioned to ask who's in charge, and so we find the notion that nobody is in charge to be very disconcerting."
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