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| Posted: Mon Oct 30th, 2006 02:36 pm |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/bamboozle-bourgeoisie.html Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Here is a snippet of the shoveling fest: It is capitalism alone that has supported this level of population growth and keeps it contributing to the common good. And by naming capitalism as the benefactor of mankind, I also intend to include the many millions of entrepreneurs, workers, savers, and investors who push forward economic growth. A. "Capitalism alone" B. "I also intent to include..." Either "Capitalism alone" or "include" - take your pick – you can’t have it both ways. I call that a contradiction or Argument argument. Here is a challenge: Test for validity: I am in one room and you, the reader, are in another room. Our rooms are separated by a wall. Can you see in my room? Can I see in your room? Multiple choice answers: Can you see in my room? A. Yes B. No C. Maybe Can I see in your room? A. Yes B. No C. Maybe The validity test can work if the wall separating our rooms can allow the transfer of something. If the stuff being transferred goes one way and not the other way, then, the answers become a function of limits imposed on the flow of information. Since I post information and receive no information, then, my answers are this: Can I see in your room? B. No Can you see in my room? C. Maybe I am in the room with no way to see into your room. That is fine. What was your answer to the questions? I don’t know. You do. If you, the reader, are interested, at all, in this validity test, then, read on: The wall can be made up in this manner: The wall is tinted glass where one can see and the other cannot see on both sides. Now; that is impossible. It is a contradiction. The wall blocks one view one way and is transparent the other way, the wall is blocked both ways, or the wall is transparent both ways. Example of a one-way information wall: The accuser is pointing out the accused in a line up at the police station. The accuser can see the accused. The accused cannot see the accuser. That wall blocks the accuser from seeing the accused. The wall allows the accuser to see the accused. Example 2: The police watch the efforts to get the accused to confess. The accused cannot see the police watching the efforts to get the accused to confess. Of course the accused can see the police who are endeavoring to get the accused to confess. Example of a two-way information wall: The prisoner is in one room and the visitor is in another room. The visitor can see the prisoner and the prisoner can see the visitor. A phone is available on both sides of the wall. Example of an impenetrable wall: The prisoner is locked up in solitary confinement, or dungeon, ‘the hole’, or some other walled in room that does not allow any information to go in or out. Example of the wall that allows information to go one-way only (from prisoner to jailer) and one-way (from jailer to prisoner) at the same time i.e. Duplicity. The wall is constructed with a tint called falsehood. The wall convinces the prisoner and the jailer, at the same time, in the transparency of the wall being only transparent one way and only transparent in favor of each to see only one way into each other, and, at the same time the wall convinces the prisoner and the jailer that each other cannot see each other. In other words; the wall itself is a contradiction, or paradox, or false representation of reality. In other words the wall is a self-deception shared by both the jailer and the prisoner. The wall is a misrepresentation of reality whereby perception does not agree with reality or where perception contradicts reality. Back to the validity test: Can you see in my room? Can I see in your room? Multiple choice answers: Can you see in my room? A. Yes B. No C. Maybe Can I see in your room? A. Yes B. No C. Maybe The wall can be one way or the other way but never both ways and neither way at the same time. I am going to call the false, contradictory, both ways and neither way argument as this: The Argument Argument I am going to call the transparent wall where both the prisoner and the jailer can see into each others room this: The Agreement Agreement That the Argument Argument leads to the construction of many walls around many prisoners and many more walls around many jailers (think gated communities, the Great Wall in China, and the as yet unfinished wall between the U.S.A. and Mexico). The Agreement Agreement leads to whatever people can agree to; including the agreement to disagree. Back to Capitalism: Is Capitalism an Argument Argument or an Agreeement Agreement? Can you see into my room? Here is more information on the prisoner's dilemma: http://prisonersdilemma.groenefee.nl/ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=The+prisoner%27s+dilemma+applet&spell=1 http://www.ask.com/web?q=The+prisoner%27s+dilemma+applet&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir The Argument Argument is constructed out of ignorance, lies, deceit, duplicity, contradiction, fraud, threats of violence, and inevitably – real violence. The Agreement Agreement is constructed from a desire to agree, honesty, openness, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and even, so help us god.
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