07-28-2016, 01:08 PM
(07-28-2016, 12:46 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(07-28-2016, 01:47 AM)Galen Wrote:(07-28-2016, 01:32 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Watts goes on to demolish both Galen's individualism and the Marxists' collectivism. We have ecological blindness, the illusion of separateness; the stress in the West on the individual. Marxism is just based on the collections of individuals.
https://youtu.be/v7vFOU8e0wU?t=1h8m28s
I just got done scanning some of his stuff and it is more of that New Age crap that got started in the seventies, which sadly unlike the seventies, never quite went away. Sounds about as bad as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh who was full of shit as well. I was relieved when he left the state and was not sorry when they planted him in the ground since I knew he wasn't coming back to cause any more problems.
Well, Mr. Watts got started long before the 1970s, so I guess another Galen theory falls apart.
Boomers don't have that much imagination so I always expected that they got their ideas from somewhere else and now I know where. Watts is simply one of the few GIs that were not as rational as the rest tended to be. I never said anything about who came first but rather that it sounded like the same crap that I encountered in the seventies when it became popular. I never heard of the guy until you mentioned him and its just as well.
Your statements about Mises and Hayek simply highlight your ignorance of economics specifically and the world in general.
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