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The role of being a good teacher is more in preventing the piano from being thrown off the roof in the first place. You do have a point here ... Too late! Good one! But since these are only virtual 'cyber pianos' being thrown down the forum roof here, we can be confident that no one got seriously hurt. It's not too late to reach and teach people--who would want to live in such a state? It's too late to prevent general economic-political calamity engulfing the United States, Europe, Japan and the rest of the world. Economically, it's the calamity of debt, mostly public. Everybody wants to avoid pain and short-term pain is generally being avoided, but it's going to be put off until there's no more put-off possible and that will mean an unbelievable amount of pain such as what is now going on in Greece is a modest foretaste. Gross inflation will be used to spike riots which will be the last bullet in the statists' gun. --Brant And I thought I was the only one who knew this. Yes, this is the last wring of inflation because it will be world wide and it can't gt any bigger than that. I am going to get more friendly with my new neighbor who has a huge organic garden. I haven't done that for awhile and I really miss it. Once you are growing almost all your own food you get very paranoid about buying anything in the supermarket. I get free range eggs with dark orange yolks rich in iron. and I get fresh cow's milk. sometimes goat's. Do you know what they do with milk after they get it from the dairies? Horror stories.

Lonely and solitude: 2 different things. Jonathan Franzen on Solitude. All writers live in solitude MSK. How else can you read and think. Nietzsche: either children or books. MSK was addressing you, however. You are neither Frantzen nor Nietsche nor a writer. Jeez MSK I am almost up to 14K on that post.Another 1000 since we bean counted together. You got yours on Ayn Rand's MOJO I got mine on my own. Who's the better Objectivist. Not a question. Who's the second rater sliding on someone else's MOJO? Second rater? Hey! You are being too kind tenaj!

Why are you so worked up over this? But to get back to the discussion: you said you have "no dog in the fight" when it comes to open vs. closed Objectivism. I believe you because your focus is elsewhere indeed. But you do have a dog (two actually) in that fight: they are called 'Faucault' and 'Nietzsche', right?Do you want to argue about this? Is this why when you asked a question of me and I wanted to answer it over on my blog and you wanted it done here because of the ease of the software in quoting? You do remember? That's not the real reason you wanted it over here. Do you want me to interpret the real reason for you? I "read" through Nietzsche, Foucault, Baudrilard, Virilio, Freud, Lacan. I do not argue theory as I think theory lies in the Hegelian dialectic. Foucault demolished Hegel. This demolished Marxism and Foucault did not fire a shot at Marxism to destroy Marxian theory. It's gone. Good-bye. Xray "reads" through Xray, in my yearlong experience of "reading" Xray through Lynam, Stuart. McAloon, Montgomery and occasionally Lapointe-Gelinas. She hasn't demolished Hegel or Foucault or Marx yet, but she could probably do it. A la prochaine Don't reinvent the wheel. Foucault has already done in Hegel. If you do in Hegel, Marx just dissolves as Marxian structure is based on Hegel. If you want to get the best of me you are going to have to get smarter. If there is a best of you. please bring it on. We have already seen the worst for free. Keep on, you'll see it.

Lonely and solitude: 2 different things. Jonathan Franzen on Solitude. All writers live in solitude MSK. How else can you read and think. Nietzsche: either children or books. MSK was addressing you, however. You are neither Frantzen nor Nietsche nor a writer. Franzen is spelled Franzen not Frantzen. You're right. I am none of the above.

Why are you so worked up over this? But to get back to the discussion: you said you have "no dog in the fight" when it comes to open vs. closed Objectivism. I believe you because your focus is elsewhere indeed. But you do have a dog (two actually) in that fight: they are called 'Faucault' and 'Nietzsche', right?Do you want to argue about this? Is this why when you asked a question of me and I wanted to answer it over on my blog and you wanted it done here because of the ease of the software in quoting? You do remember? That's not the real reason you wanted it over here. Do you want me to interpret the real reason for you? I "read" through Nietzsche, Foucault, Baudrilard, Virilio, Freud, Lacan. I do not argue theory as I think theory lies in the Hegelian dialectic. Foucault demolished Hegel. This demolished Marxism and Foucault did not fire a shot at Marxism to destroy Marxian theory. It's gone. Good-bye. Xray "reads" through Xray, in my yearlong experience of "reading" Xray through Lynam, Stuart. McAloon, Montgomery and occasionally Lapointe-Gelinas. She hasn't demolished Hegel or Foucault or Marx yet, but she could probably do it. A la prochaine Don't reinvent the wheel. Foucault has already done in Hegel. If you do in Hegel, Marx just dissolves as Marxian structure is based on Hegel. If you want to get the best of me you are going to have to get smarter.

Lonely and solitude: 2 different things. Jonathan Franzen on Solitude. All writers live in solitude MSK. How else can you read and think. Nietzsche: either children or books.

Why are you so worked up over this? But to get back to the discussion: you said you have "no dog in the fight" when it comes to open vs. closed Objectivism. I believe you because your focus is elsewhere indeed. But you do have a dog (two actually) in that fight: they are called 'Faucault' and 'Nietzsche', right?Do you want to argue about this? Is this why when you asked a question of me and I wanted to answer it over on my blog and you wanted it done here because of the ease of the software in quoting? You do remember? That's not the real reason you wanted it over here. Do you want me to interpret the real reason for you? I "read" through Nietzsche, Foucault, Baudrilard, Virilio, Freud, Lacan. I do not argue theory as I think theory lies in the Hegelian dialectic. Foucault demolished Hegel. This demolished Marxism and Foucault did not fire a shot at Marxism to destroy Marxian theory. It's gone. Good-bye.

Why are you so worked up over this? But to get back to the discussion: you said you have "no dog in the fight" when it comes to open vs. closed Objectivism. I believe you because your focus is elsewhere indeed. But you do have a dog (two actually) in that fight: they are called 'Faucault' and 'Nietzsche', right?I almost know nothing about Phil. I think I engaged with him on 2 or 3 posts here not at solo. OMG how many was it? 2 or 3? Could it have been even 4? Tellen Crupple will accuse me of being old lady forgetful again I just know it. IYou really assume and generalize so much. It is contributing to your thinking process and weakening it. I realize you will gt reinforced for it here which will continue it for you. A pity.

The absence of a simple and clear quote function at Solo makes posting over there quite tedious. (Must feel like paradise for Phil though: no quote function! ) Phil was banned on SOLO several years ago. Ellen Is that a threat? Information. Xray might not know of Phil's being banned on SOLO. I think that she joined OL after that event. Ellen What a fascinating piece of gossip. Shall we retire to the backyard and hang our wash while we gossip some more. Dang, just what I wanted to know today. What a gem of wisdom. I hope I forget it by dinnertime.

Then Karen Owens' Power Point Fuck List is in order here. From Duke U with jocks. And Vargas on porn in the same 2011 Atlantic Monthly jan/feb.Tthings have changed a great deal .... He is not in the bubble of our past experiences. They don't count anymore... Any modern girl/woman in 2012 who does this is probably going to gt laid or raped. To say a guy needs to control himself? Forget it. They don't and they won't. And jocks are the worst ones to play around with in this situation. don't do it The coed culture at Duke University, and a two-year-old article in the Atlantic Monthly, do not describe the general behaviour of most individual young sexually active men, any more than a fifty-seven year old novel describes the state of transportation in the US today. I was not observing merely from my own past, but from the attitudes of young men , collegians and not, whom I know today, and their observations about their peers . Most are jocks. ONE YEAR OLD article in the long and prestigious Atlantic Monthly by two WOMEN writers of published books on this subject. JOCKS was the example Peikoff used as Kobe is indeed a jock. Women who flirt in a sexually suggestive way with them, show up drunk at their hotel doors at 3 AM have put themselves in a dangerous situation. Wendy McElroy said a few years back when she had been young and influenced by Rand, that she was homeless, it was night, she had no place to go and slept all night inside a church. And it was then she knew she could be responsible for her self and depend upon herself. And as Vargas-Cooper says in the AM porno article, when that girl dead drunk, led by a predator into the bathroom, who locked the door and raped her, she had many more legal protections than we did, but they were of no use to her that night in that bathroom. And I am not sure if that guy was a jock or not. But Vargas-Cooper does not limit her conclusions to jocks but to the huge percentage of young men and women who have experienced anal intercourse in leaping stats over a few years, and who search the internet for porn in huge numbers. They are becoming interfaced mentally and emotionally with visual internet porn. This is today. Now. Not even 5 or 10 years ago. Women have legal protections, but the social protections we depended upon are in shreds. You really only have yourself now. So women need to be more careful and at the same time they are signaled that the guy will come to them, at that party, only if they are drunk in a way young coeds get drunk that has never been seen before either. And this interface is a running theme throughout Cosmopolis. Oh, I forgot, you just like simple straight foward writing not anything with layers and layers to play with. And sexual and transportation analogies are well....very Freudian of you, eh. The coed culture at Duke University, and a two-year-old article in the Atlantic Monthly, do not describe the general behaviour of most individual young sexually active men, any more than a fifty-seven year old novel describes the state of transportation in the US today. You are just wrong. Unless the Twilight culture has changed the girls as it has in huge numbers, much to the chagrin of PC Feminists. But go read the robsessed fan site say one year ago where all they did was drool over him, fantasize wehre they would like to have his fingers, how they wanted to "jump" him, how they fantasized about him in bed with their husbands, how they got their husbands to hold the headboard of their bed so he could "thrust" deeper, and so on as Vonnegut says. Thee are the kinds of girls/women that one can easily imagine in the place of Karen Owen. Or the examples Vargas-cooper uses. You cannot expect guys now to control themselves or act like gentlemen when you tease. In simulated reality, where you are interfaced with the media, there are only "floating signs" . No can easily mean yes. The legal protections in place have taken the place of social restrictions. This is the main problem with all this government intervention. I think Peikoff was trying to get that across. Hey! don't do stupid things! As in the Kobe incident. But I think she had a different agenda than just getting laid. IMHO. The shreds of the onion - McElroy - are you sure you made up all this yourself? For your information, McElroy is a well-known plagiarist who had "layers and layers of meaning" to play with, and she played with them to her own profit. But they belonged to somebody else. I provide this info which is well known to readers of this site, not just for years, but for only one. I browsed it for a couple months before I joined. In that time of reading I noticed things like the McElroy issue, the Kelley split and various other things people were talking about, most of which you seemed to have missed. I believe by the way that you did read OL "for years" ( that is quicker and dirtier by the way, than "for (exact number) years". But you do not seem to have retained much of what you read. Trivial Pursuit is not my forte. I try very hard to forget the unessentials in life. Thank god I missed all that with Wendy. What a bessing!

Man, I love Milton. Talk about a great first sentence (great first sentences were being talked about somewhere on this board). Ellen Milton was vile to his daughter. Have you read her account?

Then Karen Owens' Power Point Fuck List is in order here. From Duke U with jocks. And Vargas on porn in the same 2011 Atlantic Monthly jan/feb.Tthings have changed a great deal .... He is not in the bubble of our past experiences. They don't count anymore... Any modern girl/woman in 2012 who does this is probably going to gt laid or raped. To say a guy needs to control himself? Forget it. They don't and they won't. And jocks are the worst ones to play around with in this situation. don't do it The coed culture at Duke University, and a two-year-old article in the Atlantic Monthly, do not describe the general behaviour of most individual young sexually active men, any more than a fifty-seven year old novel describes the state of transportation in the US today. I was not observing merely from my own past, but from the attitudes of young men , collegians and not, whom I know today, and their observations about their peers . Most are jocks. ONE YEAR OLD article in the long and prestigious Atlantic Monthly by two WOMEN writers of published books on this subject. JOCKS was the example Peikoff used as Kobe is indeed a jock. Women who flirt in a sexually suggestive way with them, show up drunk at their hotel doors at 3 AM have put themselves in a dangerous situation. Wendy McElroy said a few years back when she had been young and influenced by Rand, that she was homeless, it was night, she had no place to go and slept all night inside a church. And it was then she knew she could be responsible for her self and depend upon herself. And as Vargas-Cooper says in the AM porno article, when that girl dead drunk, led by a predator into the bathroom, who locked the door and raped her, she had many more legal protections than we did, but they were of no use to her that night in that bathroom. And I am not sure if that guy was a jock or not. But Vargas-Cooper does not limit her conclusions to jocks but to the huge percentage of young men and women who have experienced anal intercourse in leaping stats over a few years, and who search the internet for porn in huge numbers. They are becoming interfaced mentally and emotionally with visual internet porn. This is today. Now. Not even 5 or 10 years ago. Women have legal protections, but the social protections we depended upon are in shreds. You really only have yourself now. So women need to be more careful and at the same time they are signaled that the guy will come to them, at that party, only if they are drunk in a way young coeds get drunk that has never been seen before either. And this interface is a running theme throughout Cosmopolis. Oh, I forgot, you just like simple straight foward writing not anything with layers and layers to play with. And sexual and transportation analogies are well....very Freudian of you, eh. The coed culture at Duke University, and a two-year-old article in the Atlantic Monthly, do not describe the general behaviour of most individual young sexually active men, any more than a fifty-seven year old novel describes the state of transportation in the US today. You are just wrong. Unless the Twilight culture has changed the girls as it has in huge numbers, much to the chagrin of PC Feminists. But go read the robsessed fan site say one year ago where all they did was drool over him, fantasize wehre they would like to have his fingers, how they wanted to "jump" him, how they fantasized about him in bed with their husbands, how they got their husbands to hold the headboard of their bed so he could "thrust" deeper, and so on as Vonnegut says. Thee are the kinds of girls/women that one can easily imagine in the place of Karen Owen. Or the examples Vargas-cooper uses. You cannot expect guys now to control themselves or act like gentlemen when you tease. In simulated reality, where you are interfaced with the media, there are only "floating signs" . No can easily mean yes. The legal protections in place have taken the place of social restrictions. This is the main problem with all this government intervention. I think Peikoff was trying to get that across. Hey! don't do stupid things! As in the Kobe incident. But I think she had a different agenda than just getting laid. IMHO.

Then Karen Owens' Power Point Fuck List is in order here. From Duke U with jocks. And Vargas on porn in the same 2011 Atlantic Monthly jan/feb.Tthings have changed a great deal .... He is not in the bubble of our past experiences. They don't count anymore... Any modern girl/woman in 2012 who does this is probably going to gt laid or raped. To say a guy needs to control himself? Forget it. They don't and they won't. And jocks are the worst ones to play around with in this situation. don't do it The coed culture at Duke University, and a two-year-old article in the Atlantic Monthly, do not describe the general behaviour of most individual young sexually active men, any more than a fifty-seven year old novel describes the state of transportation in the US today. I was not observing merely from my own past, but from the attitudes of young men , collegians and not, whom I know today, and their observations about their peers . Most are jocks. ONE YEAR OLD article in the long and prestigious Atlantic Monthly by two WOMEN writers of published books on this subject. JOCKS was the example Peikoff used as Kobe is indeed a jock. Women who flirt in a sexually suggestive way with them, show up drunk at their hotel doors at 3 AM have put themselves in a dangerous situation. Wendy McElroy said a few years back when she had been young and influenced by Rand, that she was homeless, it was night, she had no place to go and slept all night inside a church. And it was then she knew she could be responsible for her self and depend upon herself. And as Vargas-Cooper says in the AM porno article, when that girl dead drunk, led by a predator into the bathroom, who locked the door and raped her, she had many more legal protections than we did, but they were of no use to her that night in that bathroom. And I am not sure if that guy was a jock or not. But Vargas-Cooper does not limit her conclusions to jocks but to the huge percentage of young men and women who have experienced anal intercourse in leaping stats over a few years, and who search the internet for porn in huge numbers. They are becoming interfaced mentally and emotionally with visual internet porn. This is today. Now. Not even 5 or 10 years ago. Women have legal protections, but the social protections we depended upon are in shreds. You really only have yourself now. So women need to be more careful and at the same time they are signaled that the guy will come to them, at that party, only if they are drunk in a way young coeds get drunk that has never been seen before either. And this interface is a running theme throughout Cosmopolis. Oh, I forgot, you just like simple straight foward writing not anything with layers and layers to play with.

You didn't include a link. The thread is titled "Happy Birthday Ayn Rand - Why You Are Still Misunderstood." The absence of a simple and clear quote function at Solo makes posting over there quite tedious. (Must feel like paradise for Phil though: no quote function! ) Phil was banned on SOLO several years ago. EllenIs that a threat?

Then Karen Owens' Power Point Fuck List is in order here. From Duke U with jocks. And Vargas on porn in the same 2011 Atlantic Monthly jan/feb.Tthings have changed a great deal since hard porn became mainstream on the internet. Peikoff is talking about right now. He is not in the bubble of our past experiences. They don't count anymore. Now fast time is so much different. I'm trying to get there to write about it, but everything is happening so fast. If you are a coed at Duke, where we have some first hand evidence, being stinking drunk is how you get the guy at the frat party. That is what attracts him. You are reinforced for being drunk out of anything any of us experienced when young, in order to get laid. Our problem was avoiding it without commitment. The modern coed is in competition with many others offering sex, so how to ensure you will be chosen. Pure reinforcement theory. Get black out drunk, get laid by the jock of choice. Reinforced for being drunk increases the possibility that you will repeat the behavior next time. Skinnarian operant conditioning. The rat will go down the alley that offers the cheese. I'm not saying I like what Peikoff said, but he is correct. any woman flirting, suggesting she wants sex, showing up drunk at a man's hotel room at 3 am has already said yes. Even in my day. Except in my day you had a good chance of not putting out and not getting raped in that situation. Any modern girl/woman in 2012 who does this is probably going to gt laid or raped. To say a guy needs to control himself? Forget it. They don't and they won't. And jocks are the worst ones to play around with in this situation. don't do it. Truly it's horrible. But it is the way it is. It is the reality. Deal with it. Watch your back because no one else is going to. Berating guys isn't going to change a damn thing. Condemning them isn't going to change their behavior. No use. Too late. Porno is here to stay. It makes vast amounts of money. It is capitalism at its finest example. You can't want one and not want the other. Catch-22.

No, from Lacan. Created a furor in Paris.

Nonsense. She hated the Russia she lived in, cared little for her family, and gladly gave up her mother country and tongue for what she believed to be better ones for her own life and advancement. Janet, Daunce is right: Rand loathed Russia. And as for keeping her heavy Russian accent, she certainly did not do this on purpose. Right/wrong and wrong/right keeps you stuck playing ping-pong. If that's what you want paddle away. Once something is out there in simulated reality it's credible. Ask John Kerry who got swiftboated because he didn't know that.

The absence of a simple and clear quote function at Solo makes posting over there quite tedious. (Must feel like paradise for Phil though: no quote function! ) I prefer forums to blogs because of the clearer structure. The few times I have posted on blogs, I often could not retrieve my own comments later because the blog was so cumbersome to navigate. Aside from that, why should I register on yet another blog when it is here on OL where we are having the discussion? It would be like sending my colleague to get extra pens while we still have pens in abundance. I have put all my blogs on disqus which makes it possible to integrate with many other blogs if yoou should so choose. If you want to retrieve you do it thru disqus. You can follow people and/or have people follow you. It's an efficient platform. You can shut out anyone you want or enable them. There are some fine blogs on disqus.

Why does anyone even ask these questions or talk about it. "Honest rape" WTF is that! In terms of an operational definition, going to the emergency room to get swabs, pay for your own rape test etc Well depending on the severity and circumstances I can see why many women just decide to forget about it and move on. Since living in the Ozarks I think differently about these things than when I lived in Philadelphia. Much different. A hospital can be almost an hour away. How do you gt there? Who do you tell who will take you? It gets complicated very quickly and seems like the best choice is to go get the morning after pill, check for transmitted STD's etc which is still a lot to deal with under the circumstances. Thee politicians sound like stupid old men for the most part and when women run they sound the same.

Yes it does. Anything involving Diana Hissssssss is to be avoided at all costs. Why anyone cares about anything she says is not something I understand.

Interesting endorsement by Camille, who I like: It’s time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. McLuhan, Fiedler and Brown were steeped in literature, classical to modern. They understood the creative imagination, and they extended their insights into speculation about history and society. Their influence was positive and fruitful: They did not impose their system on acolytes but liberated a whole generation of students to think freely and to discover their own voices…. My argument is that the North American intellectuals,typified by McLuhan, Fiedler and Brown, achieved a new fusion of ideas—a sensory pragmatism or engagement with concrete experience, rooted in the body , and at the same time a visionary celebration of artistic metaspace—that is, the fictive realm of art, fantasy and belief projected by great poetry and prefiguring or own cyberspace. Camille Paglia, February 17, 2000 I used to like Paglia. More then than now. Why does she feel a choice is necessary? Go for Diane Rubenstein. She taufht me huge chunks of what I know from her book This Is Not A President. Paglia is yesterday. Everyone gets eaten up so fast these days.

If we go with Normon O Brown then it's Love's Body. No exceptions, the polymorphous perverse body.

Here's Lacan on the marriage contract: A legal contract whereby each person has exclusive rights to the other's sexual organs.

PERFECT!

And the Indians didn't really want to keep their land. If they did they would have developed a set of laws governing property rights. Ba'al Chatzaf Very nice reply! The Indians had dreams and prophecies that golden haired gods were to come to them. At least the Aztecs did. Not sure about Nrth American Indian culture on this. But your reply is sort of like my mother's: If god wanted you to drive a car you would have been born with one. So I told her if god wanted you to have a dishwasher, you would have been born with one. About masturbation: Well if I couldn't have the real thing I wouldn't want anything. Well if I couldn't have steak, I wouldn't eat hamburger. I'd rather starve to death. Even then I was uppity.