(09-04-2016, 12:13 AM)taramarie Wrote:(09-04-2016, 12:10 AM)Galen Wrote:(09-03-2016, 11:52 PM)taramarie Wrote:(09-03-2016, 10:59 PM)Galen Wrote:You are not wrong there. From what i have seen he seem to think if you are for anything remotely to do with the 80s, not a new age hippy like person or anything that he believes in you are wrong and he is right and he sticks to it. Telling him others feel differently does not dissuade him. He is the most self centered person I have ever met. He even said he wishes he could get others to feel the way he does (regarding music.) I would not be surprised if this applies to his other beliefs. So much for being a lefty.(09-03-2016, 07:06 PM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: Right. I am MOST unlikely to adopt your laissez faire philosophy. I can only hope it is in decline now, after 36 years of predominance. The same for materialist science views.
That is because you are a nasty self-righteous totalitarian who likes to rule other people. Sadly, your lack of knowledge on so many subjects makes you the least qualified person to do so.
Now imagine growing up in the seventies surrounded by legions of idiots just like Eric the Obtuse. Generation X should now make more sense to you.
were they all really like him? that is a frightening thought. I am glad our kiwi boomers have more sense.
Yes, for the most part, and it never really ended. What happened is that once the question of their fighting in the Vietnam war to their satisfaction and defeated the hated Nixon they then took the rest of the decade off in a cocaine fueled bout of hedonism. By 1982 they all got religion and half of them went back to Christianity. It was the perfect set up for the Culture Wars and the current situation.
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