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Aldous Huxley: On the Merit of Decentralized Government * 1
    #12286967 - 03/28/10 10:16 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)



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Re: Aldous Huxley: On the Merit of Decentralized Government [Re: Freakdaddy]
    #12287030 - 03/28/10 10:32 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

You need more then just a vid. Got a point to make?


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Re: Aldous Huxley: On the Merit of Decentralized Government [Re: Icelander]
    #12287047 - 03/28/10 10:35 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

Icelander said:
You need more then just a vid. Got a point to make?




Snarky.  :thumbdown:


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Re: Aldous Huxley: On the Merit of Decentralized Government [Re: Freakdaddy]
    #12287163 - 03/28/10 11:02 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

In other words you don't have the smarts to make an actual post. :ass:


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Re: Aldous Huxley: On the Merit of Decentralized Government [Re: Icelander]
    #12287178 - 03/28/10 11:06 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

The meaning of the post corresponds with its thread title.

You can love your Icelandic socialism all you want.  :laugh:


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Re: Aldous Huxley: On the Merit of Decentralized Government [Re: Freakdaddy]
    #12288382 - 03/28/10 03:39 PM (13 years, 10 months ago)

I think Aldous Huxley's contention, That genetic uniqueness of individual human beings is the basis for the value of freedom, is unsubstaniated. He doesn't explain the reason why this is so. Will you?


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Re: Aldous Huxley: On the Merit of Decentralized Government [Re: falcon]
    #12288913 - 03/28/10 05:41 PM (13 years, 10 months ago)

We each have different--as in, no one has the same as another--fingerprints; different nodes along the DNA helix.  Different voice prints, talents, means of expression and contributions to this thing we call Life.

And, thus, are not and cannot be rendered (by Governments or a corporate construct) as simply one among many pods, to assist in some collective effort.

Get it?

(Laughing, as you challenge Aldous Huxley.  lulz.)


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Re: Aldous Huxley: On the Merit of Decentralized Government [Re: Freakdaddy]
    #12288994 - 03/28/10 05:55 PM (13 years, 10 months ago)

Biological uniqueness does not imbue anyone with the right to freedom.
I don't see how this is so.

I agree with this statement:

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Paraphrasing Freakdaddy:
People cannot be rendered (by Governments or a corporate construct) as simply one among many pods, to assist in some collective effort.




But you can't get there from what Huxley said. So I don't get it. Huxley's premise is faulty and I still don't see how he sees people being biological individuals as the basis for the value of freedom.

There is no reason for Governments or corporate constructs to not consider people pods to assist in a collective effort based on biological differences.


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Re: Aldous Huxley: On the Merit of Decentralized Government [Re: falcon]
    #12289018 - 03/28/10 06:00 PM (13 years, 10 months ago)

Huxley points specifically in that Mike Wallace interview, to Thomas Jefferson, who--as author of the Declaration of Independence--wrote:

"...endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, amongst which are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."

What more do you need.


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Re: Aldous Huxley: On the Merit of Decentralized Government [Re: Freakdaddy]
    #12289103 - 03/28/10 06:22 PM (13 years, 10 months ago)

http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/articles/Mike_Wallace_interviews_Aldous_Huxley_May_18_1958.html

OK he mentions Jefferson.

Where in the interview does he mention?:

"...endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, amongst which are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."

He doesn't. What he says, is that because we recognize that we are unique biologically that this is the basis of the value of freedom.


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Re: Aldous Huxley: On the Merit of Decentralized Government [Re: falcon] * 1
    #12289132 - 03/28/10 06:30 PM (13 years, 10 months ago)

Huxley goes straight to Jefferson as being the visionary who largely crafted a republican (small "r") Constitution, which decentralizes Government as its first order of business, and which does so in an understanding that one is not beholden to Government (or King or CEO) for anything at all.

Dig it.


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Re: Aldous Huxley: On the Merit of Decentralized Government [Re: Freakdaddy]
    #12289351 - 03/28/10 07:27 PM (13 years, 10 months ago)

Ha! I didn't get that much out of the interview, until I did some digging.

:cheers:


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