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• • 12 Jun 09
  • 2:20 pm

  Why does Dr. Noam Chomsky, or as I call him-- Dr. Chomsky and Mr. Noam-- refuse to apply the realities of his discoveries and those of the rest of cognitive neuroscience these past few decades to his politics? Why does he continue to write the same article over and over again, decade after decade, trying to reach some "critical mass" of truth consciousness in the species, repeating himself, begging and pleading for reason and change based only on political/historical information, when cognitive neuroscience has shown aggression and tribalism to be as much hard-wired aspects of human evolution as altruism and cooperation-- …

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• • 07 May 09
  • 3:33 pm

  I agree with Mr. Malik Al-Arkam, with one stipulation: No Reparations without Repatriation. Upon agreeing to accept a Congressionally-determined sum equivalent to the promised 40 acres and a mule, any current American citizen of proven slave ancestry, who chooses to opt into the Reparations Program, would be issued a check for said amount from the US Treasury Department, along with a one-way plane ticket to the nation of their assumed ancestry-- or whatever nation would take them as a citizen. Before boarding the plane they would sign papers formally renouncing their US citizenship once-and-for-all, and be henceforth treated like any other …

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• • 28 Apr 07
  • 2:43 am

  It's probably out of print, but if you really must read something by Ayn Rand, try to find her book "For the New Intellectual". I see one on paperback sale tables from time to time. It is her own condensation of her "philosophy". Anyone who can wade through one of her "novels" must suffer from anosmia. A silly woman with silly ideas. "But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and …

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