Gulch Live: Radio Interrupted 09.16.2015

Posted by GaltsGulch 8 years, 8 months ago to The Gulch: Live
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Direct Pro Audio: Pro audio, lighting, stage and video equipment retailer
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"Thoughts and Commentary": a series of essays
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Original evocative and heroic instrumental music
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  • Posted by gcarl615 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When I was working on my masters degree, the college insisted that I take an ethics course, I think because I was 40ish and an IT Director at a fortune 500 company at the time. I requested the instructor to allow me to show the class the Foutainhead as a study in ethics. while I and the instructor seemed to "get it", the rest of the class failed to.
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There is no problem with looking to the opinion of a recognized authority in a specific field as long as it is recognized that even the expert opinion of a recognized expert is not the fact.

    Even scientists acting as honest brokers of knowledge and not as Lysenkoists can be and have been wrong on the very issues over which they are experts.
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  • Posted by khalling 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    disagree. absolutely, you can bring an expert's view into the debate. whether it is rational is another queation, but we cannot all be experts in everything. I absolutely look to titans in their industries for their opinions. why would I not?
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  • Posted by Technocracy 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I like most of his fiction, and has some fabulous one liners.

    But at the end of the day, its all fiction and the social slant varies considerably by when it was written.
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  • Posted by khalling 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    sorry-people read Heinlein as a philosophy like they do Rand in her fiction. frustrating.
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But they don't need to: they are "complete".
    Their marxist professors poured raw sewage into their skulls and they accepted it once they realized that they would receive the prestige of being considered "smart" in all the correct cliques.

    Remember, according to Plato, everything which deviates from perfection is corruption.
    Never question The Cause, comrade!
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree. Robert Douglas as Ellesworth Toohey was great. Not exactly the Toohey in the book (I always saw him as being a bit frumpy), but still great.
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I love the story Dr. Williams tells about how he gave his wife a pair of golf cleats for Christmas so that she didn't slip and fall on the ice when she went out on a winter morning to clean the snow off of his car.
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  • Posted by Technocracy 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    RAH was a socialist so, yep.

    Not defending the position, just making sure the book's thesis is stated correctly
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  • Posted by khalling 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    that would be indentured servitude-NOT protecting individual rights. Like I said, soviets, germans, Israelis all have this rule for every citizen. still socialists all. doesn't fix a damned thing
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 8 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I thought the thesis was that only those who had earned the right could vote or hold elected office.
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  • Posted by khalling 8 years, 8 months ago
    In the video, the former KGB officer said a 21 year old has formed their opinions and life, often they have a family. too late to get to them
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  • Posted by khalling 8 years, 8 months ago
    @Rick-watch the soviet video Db posted. They were the first to drop the age to 18 on fighting . The thought was develop them.
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  • Posted by Technocracy 8 years, 8 months ago
    Should Vote..should vote....that was the thesis behind starship troopers
    You only are allowed to vote if you serve first.
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