tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post3732253097832800483..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: Tibor Machan: Insightful and Confusing bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-68945660885898209732014-10-29T10:31:14.019-07:002014-10-29T10:31:14.019-07:00What a strange interview...
It was like watching ...What a strange interview...<br /><br />It was like watching an owner try and stroke a pissed off cat who would occasionally rear and bite.<br /><br />And at some points Machan resembled the the teenager in this song:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsH4CrwExCQ<br /><br />Well, this kind of reaction is why I prefer small "l" libertarianism: zero compunction to maintain party lines; a spade is indeed a spade.<br /><br />Finally, have you perused the Martyrdom of Man by Winwoode Reade ?(1872): http://www.exclassics.com/martyrdom/mrtintro.htm<br /><br />So many compare the US to the fall of Rome, but the first 20 pages or so of Martyrdom would seem to find many similarities between the fall of the Egyptians. A lot of insight into the nature of men and what are the fruits of a certain structure of incentive.<br /><br />"In the modern world we find luxury the harbinger of progress, in the ancient world the omen of decline. But how can this be? Nature does not contradict herself; the laws which govern the movements of society are as regular and unchangeable as those which govern the movements of the stars.<br /><br />"Wealth is in reality as indispensable to mankind for purposes of growth as water to the soil. It is not the fault of the water if its natural circulation is interfered with, if certain portions of the land are drowned while others are left completely dry. Wealth in all countries of the ancient world was artificially confined to a certain class. More than half the area of the Greek and Roman world was shut off by slavery from the fertilising stream. This single fact is sufficient to explain how that old civilisation, in some respects so splendid, was yet so one-sided and incomplete. (Martyrdom of Man, pg. 14)"<br /><br />This is written from the perspective of 1872. Pretty marvelous insights.<br /><br />Always like passing by here, excellent post.alaska3636noreply@blogger.com