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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: 'Peer Reviewed' Papers - a new scam!
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 13:20:37 +1000
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On 29/05/2024 7:42 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2024 17:35:46 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/28/2024 5:07 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 16:02:38 -0400, bitrex wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm unsure if there have been any significant recent developments in
>>>> conservative philosophy recently, but if there's been like, some
>>>> paradigm-shifting discoveries in the field of wingnutology I'm open to
>>>> reading the journals that contain them.
>>>>
>>>> But my impression has been that wingnutology is not shall we say a
>>>> "highly nuanced philosophy" and that's one of the keys to its
>>>> popularity, it doesn't need an academic journal to understand.
>>>>
>>>> Love guns, love Trump, have a long list of commies, queers, and
>>>> degenerate enemies that need to get waxed, and you've basically got at
>>>> least a bachelors of arts in the field at this time. what more is there
>>>> to know about it. Park your pickup in a EV parking spot is the
>>>> equivalent of a masters degree. Kick a queer or homeless person straight
>>>> in the head and you got your PhD, easy.
>>>
>>> That's precisely the problem with you elitist types. You believe no one
>>> should be allowed to express any political opinion unless they have a
>>> degree from somewhere like Columbia or Brown. Your sort  believe it's only
>>> permissible to espouse a view if it's couched in suitably nuanced terms -
>>> which conveniently excludes anyone with populist, Right-wing sensibilities
>>> who didn't have a privileged upbringing. So much for "inclusiveness" eh.
>>>
>>
>> Not so much about not letting anyone but academics in but more like the
>> same reason I don't let vacuum cleaner salesmen or Jehovah's Witnesses
>> in my front door; because populist right-wing sensibilities is 1%
>> substance and 99% sales.
> 
> The USA is definitely swinging right. The lefty philosophy fails to
> understand that there are greedy, lazy, and criminal people in the
> world, and they need to be managed.

Left-wing philosophy has no delusions about human nature.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/801264-if-you-took-the-most-ardent-revolutionary-vested-him-in

"
“If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute 
power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.”
― Mikhail Bakunin "

That dates from the 1870's and the debate about why Karl Marx's ideas 
about the leading role of the communist party weren't good for socialism.

Bakunin wanted politcal power to be based on local assemblies - he's the 
father of the cooperative movement - but his also anarcho-syndicalism 
attracted a few psychopaths.

> Do vacuum-cleaner salespeople still exist? It's hard to compete with
> Walmart and Amazon.

Jehovah's Witnesses and Pentacostals are still with us, and killing 
their kids by not letting them get blood transfusions.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney