09-22-2018, 02:59 AM
(09-21-2018, 09:33 AM)David Horn Wrote:(09-21-2018, 03:58 AM)Galen Wrote:(09-16-2018, 10:54 PM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: Facebook may be powerful, but my use of it seems impotent. People do not change their minds as a result of what I write, any more than they do here, or anywhere else before. I don't notice much mind-shifting going on these days among anyone else either.
So what difference does it make how fast or how far we can communicate, if we can't communicate?
Did it ever occur to you that people who read your writings consider you to be full of shit?
Did you ever consider the same?
You are forgetting that Eric the Obtuse has a knowledge of science equal to that of the seventeenth century when Astrology was state of the art. That and he still thinks socialism can work which indicates his contact with reality is sporadic at best.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises