I have someone in my life who worked/lived in Chile during Pinochet's rule, and in fact the company (big copper) he worked for was in fact exploiting in the most American style.... eventually the largest, most voracious/egregious of mining companies bought his company up and it only took about 5 years of working for them for him to become an extreme apologist for THEM. His eldest daughter who was still pre-teen when they left Chile is a huge Pinochet apologist. It is really disturbing to me. But her childhood friends were all children of the ruling class and affiliates (International ex-pats) else they would not even be in the country (or alive)... so it is obvious... but still sad/disturbing.
As a long-time employee of LANL and erstwhile believer in Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) as a (the only?) viable concept of peace in the modern (post-hiroshima/nagasaki), I have been an apologist for some pretty disturbing things myself. That (somewhat) recognized mistake of my own leads me to be a bit more Luddite than many here who I would (gently) suggest are apologists for (runaway) technological (and economic) progress. I find it fascinating what we humans are capable of transforming from "unthinkable" to "necessary" which presages designation as "a very good thing". On 2/10/21 9:01 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > Since Nick is always looking for libertarian bogeymen, I thought I'd raise > this specter: > > https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hans-Hermann_Hoppe > > I ran across him in this article on the Hoppean Snake as a right-wing meme: > > https://theintercept.com/2021/02/04/pinochet-far-right-hoppean-snake/ > > This paragraph from the RationalWiki pinged my memory of the discussion about > renaming MOTH: > > "Hoppe fancies himself as a champion of the right of free association. Or > what might more commonly be called rank discrimination and bigotry. He > proposes "covenant communities," a sort of neighborhood watch on steroids." > > It had never crossed my mind that any thinking/feeling human would be stupid > enough to take conditional association to its logical conclusion in this way. > Or that anyone would fail to see that slow-rate conditional association (e.g. > bad marriage tortu[r]ous divorce - cf > http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/What-s-in-a-name-MOTH-to-a-Flame-tp7599300.html) > is a necessary consequence of conditional association *because* real life is > replete with a diversity of rates, some slow, some fast, and a diversity of > Markov orders, some shallow, some deep. > > Triple-H may be my new, favorite example of why anarcho-capitalism is so > fscked up and often tragically confused with anracho-syndicalism or > anarchism, proper. I absolutely love that nickname "Triple-H". Too bad it > signs for such a horrifying person. Now I need to find alternative objects, > you know, for parallax. > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
