so, anyway.

[zubird]

this is just a way i'm trying to make sense of something that confuses me. i don't think it's the only way to view the hurricane, and even i find it a little ludicrous in parts. but here.

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misonou made this long post, a week or so ago, questions about the hurricane, and i tried to clarify, not because i know anything specific about the hurricane or

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[zubird]

heh, did you mean not many Europeans or not many Americans know? i would say all politically-aware American liberals are very very aware of this and remind each other of it incessantly. probably American conservatives don't believe it or don't care, or just imagine it comes with having so many dark-skinned people [people say this -- like if you praise some European welfare state or something, people will say, well, would this work in a more diverse society? as if all Swedes were blonde folk who wore braids wrapped around their heads] or is a fair trade for America's moral superiority. for the great bulk of Americans, those sort of facts are irrelevant because no matter what it's still the Greatest Country On Earth.

and i agree with what you said about laws and armed forces; on the other hand, it's also a very stupid idea that people are inherently good and corrupted by society; this leads to all kinds of ludicrous utopian proposals. and utopianism, of course, is the root of all 20th-century evil. this is why i haven't yet made up my mind about anarchism, especially since i haven't yet found a person who can give me a clear definition of what anarchists are directly striving for, besides interminably long meetings.

i swear ill write more when i master the french keyboard

[misonou]

everything becomes simpler if you're less dogmatic about ideas. welfare state shouldn't be avoided like plague because it's the seed of communism, for example. think about solutions without focusing too much on word definitions, or concept definitions.