(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
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[Watch this space for: Pentagon and Petroleum, The Media is only as Liberal as the Corporations Who Own Them, Wash Down With, and Recalcify]
WARBLOGGER WATCH
Saturday, September 07, 2002
Achondritic meliorism is what I see as the sane response to asset-accruing asses. I challenge any and all warbloggers or war-mongers, and especially those whose personal fortunes rely on the vagaries of internationalist malfeasance, to a semantic 'duel to the dialogic death' on the topic: " . . . capitalism, globalization and the inherant right to life, liberty and justice."
Somehow I think few of the militianary advocationists will have the driven curiosity to consult the OED and so will have little idea of the content or context of my dialogic quest. I am being deliberately obfuscationist in order to raise the bar from repitition of well-worn diametricisms to a world class height of empathic rationalism. . . . and it was said that the four minute mile was an impenetrable barrier.
This is my first post to WBW.(!) Be assured Dear Reader that I will become increasingly vernacular, but will never surrender to the neurochemical warfare that has become the ideational by-product of cultural acceptance. There is no time, and perhaps more importantly no space, for irrational non-sense in this abjectly critical, singular, period.
It is transparently true that materialism and capitalism are in fact, and at bedrock, dependant on struggle, class divisions, intolerance, and most devastatingly war. To dis-acknowledge this intimate connection, nay symbiosis, of those who would profit from other's labor and poverty is the 'prime lie' of the warbloggers; and indeed all the world's
unsustainably greedy people.
"Von Mises is important because his teachings are necessary to the preservation of material civilization. As he showed, the base of material civilization is the division of labor. Without the higher productivity of labor made possible by the division of labor, the great majority of mankind would simply die of starvation. The existence and successful functioning of the division of labor, however, vitally depends on the institutions of a capitalist society—that is, on limited government and economic freedom, private ownership of land and all other property, exchange and money, saving and investment, economic inequality and economic competition, and the profit motive—institutions everywhere under attack for several generations."