SODOM & GOMORRAH: How do you turn blind rage into something useful? @kalimkassam was kind enough to include me in a Twitter conversation with @kyachtic, the Leader of the Libertarian Party in Canada, where the latter was asking how the #OccupyTogether movement could direct their rage toward something practical. Of course, @kalimkassam asks if this would even be desirable. … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2011
My Response to “Could Occupy Together Be Effective?”
This is a guest post by Katie Chown, leader of the Libertarian Party in Canada. Find more at Facebook.com/katrinachowne and on Twitter @kyachtic To start, I had not asked @kalimkassam how the #OccupyTogether movement could direct their rage toward something practical. I am a typical Libertarian in so far as I have not and will not join #OWS. I am an atypical … [Read more...]
We Have Invented Happiness, Say the Last Men
SODOM & GOMORRAH: Bonald looks back on the end of history and concludes that it may well be the end. In this depressing piece, Bonald asks us to consider if Francis Fukuyama was correct in his book The End of History. Fukuyama stated what everyone believed, that history is the story of a progressive development of capitalism and democracy. Now that such things are … [Read more...]