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Stew, we're never gonna agree on class analysis and attribution of 'blame', guess we both knew that, back to the film...

Stewball wrote:...At the other end of the spectrum, with no government at all, you have Fight Club. But the dirty little secret is that "no government" only lasts 2 microseconds if there is more than one person...

You say secret, I say Hobbesian myth.

Perhaps because I view it as fascist, authoritarian, it had never actually occurred to me that fight club is seen as anti-anarchism. Pointing out the difference between chaos and anarchy is -according to this website- one of my favourite things too

Stewball wrote:Alan Moore is an occultist and "practitioner" of ceremonial magic a la the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
You linking to him explains a lot.

Perhaps it explains my tolerance for people with religious/magical beliefs, despite not having any of my own. Allot of people are 'practitioners' of religion/magic, I try not to hold it against them.

I should perhaps have started a new Moore fandom thread. He's one of the best storytellers of the generation, in any media (he doesn't do films remember) and yes a (I think actually a former) golden dawner. His 'Magic as art' manifesto-of-sorts is long but, I thought interesting. A celebration of creativity, refreshingly free of dogma, pseudoscience and hierarchy. Certainly more acceptable -to me at least- than any 'organised' religion.

Ag0stoMesmer wrote:

Stewball wrote:Capitalists don't crush freedom as long as there is no legal double standard in the law...

The interests of the state and corporatists are perfectly aligned, profiting and prospering via repression of workers. They are the same, even after discounting the real-life conspiracies of lobbying, revolving doors etc,

The interests of socialist government officials and corrupt businessmen are perfectly aligned. If that situation develops, it's the fault of the "workers"--read citizens. Freedom results with government officials who have integrity, which is the responsibility of the people monitor and maintain. People who trade too much of their freedom for security through sloth, apathy or greed, will loose both.

Were the state and the corporatists somehow 'separated', turning the monopoly of violence into a duopoly sure wouldn't result in anything I would call real freedom.

Because leftists think freedom means Big Government will take care of them because liberals/bureaucrats are so compassionate. The technical term is "useful idiots". At the other end of the spectrum, with no government at all, you have Fight Club. But the dirty little secret is that "no government" only lasts 2 microseconds if there is more than one person. Alan Moore is an occultist and "practitioner" of ceremonial magic a la the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

You linking to him explains a lot.