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Yeah, this is good land-use planning! This needs to be resisted, but there is so little time to organize anything to help these people. This is what government does best, evict people from their land---from an organic farm, no less---for the purpose of building a fucking WalMart warehouse aiding private developers.
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Lord knows, I have my own share of doctrinal baggage, trailing my every step like Jacob Marley's string of cashboxes (or rocking like Strummer's and Jones's Casbahs, sez I...), so when you realize, on the one hand, that I spent a great deal of my years from sixteen to about twenty-two immersed in Rothbard & his allies from the libertarian "Austrian school" of economics, and on the latter-day other hand two decades hence, that my chance discovery last summer of the MANAS archive and its pantheon of most-admired guiding spirits, was quite palpably the sort of intellectual Thunderclap (which made of me a) Newman, awakening me to that "Something in the Air" I had heretofore glimpsed only fitfully, you'll see that my attempt to "contain multitudes" thus cannot be anything other than a work in (I hope) perpetual progress, whose occasional formation of islands of relative order amid the chaos surrounding I hope to spot and shore up, as it were, while the waters between still afford mortal navigation.
I had hoped to enact your flattering suggestion that I replicate my qualified dissents over Ruppert, Wal-Mart, &c., at the originating post at Boingboing, but my un-Argus eyes failed to reveal a Post-Comments-Here link - the Comments displayed beneath appeared in each case to be linked-blog-URL trackbacks of sorts, and though I wanted to be in that number, when the saint-aspirants go marching therein, they apparently come equipped with Open-Sez-Me(s) revealed to none save the occult ranks of the invited and harvested few. - SL
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I love the "contain multitudes" line here, and I sympathize very much with the struggle to continue to progress in that light. One wonders just how many "multitudes" our friend Mr. Emerson actually contained---and, if many, how many of them actually were given the opportunity to express themselves. Do not misunderstand me, please, because I love Emerson, and I cherish having discovered and read his "Essay On Self-Reliance" as a still-young-but-liked-to-think-I-was-older 16-year-old. I do believe, however, that he was not as much for putting his ideas into practice as his young friend Henry.
Blessings on them both for the example they set for us.
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