A Game Played by Lunatics
With Dubya promising to spend zillions of dollars to send a few privileged civil servants to Mars, I am irresistibly reminded of this quote from one of my favorite books, Teaching as a Subversive...
View ArticleDiscrimination Positive
Philippe Gouillou propose des lois de discrimination positive en faveur d'une minorité défavorisée, les cons. Quant à moi, je pense qu'ils sont déjà sur-représentés parmi nos élus, et parmi les...
View ArticleWhy I Am NOT A Libertarian!
I am not a Libertarian. At least not in the sense argued against by Daniel C. Dennett in chapter 4 his book Freedom Evolves. I've known of Daniel Dennett ever since I read The Mind's I co-written with...
View ArticleCourtoisie, Droit Naturel et Libéralisme
Ceci est une réponse à un message point-godwin reçu sur la mailing-list rationalistes-autrichiens, en réaction à une intervention aussi enflammée qu'argumentatoire dans laquelle je démontrais par...
View ArticleReligious Monuments Explained
This big statue is an idol dedicated to superstition. This primitive piece of art symbolizes primitive proto-thinking. This altar was erected in homage to gullibility. These golden jewels are an...
View ArticleThe Ayn Rand Reader
In the last few months, I've read a few books by Ayn Rand. Each was quite an agreable surprise, despite my already knowing much about it. Recommended reads. I started We The Living in last november of...
View ArticleLibertarianism @ Japan
Last wednesday, I met Mr. Libertarianism @ Japan, one of the happy few japanese libertarians. Quite a nice fellow. Looking for libertarians to meet in Japan, I had found his site through these links...
View ArticleReality is not politically correct
No it ain't. Bitch. Which is why leftists are very quick at denying reality in practice. And so as to deny even those realities that may be proved through praxeology, they go so far as to using...
View ArticleBooks about Ethics
Henry Hazlitt's The Foundations of Morality took the classical view of ethics, debunking usual mistakes and fallacies, reaffirming the essence of what must be retained. It was a necessary cleanup and...
View ArticleLa Philosophie: qui en a besoin
Cette semaine, j'ai fini de traduire en français Philosophy: Who Needs It. Les non-anglophones pourront donc découvrir, modulo les lacunes de ma traduction ce chef d'oeuvre de Ayn Rand: La...
View ArticleThe Incredibles
It has lots of consistent retro-modern late 1950's like design, including the music score. It has developed psychology for all characters, be them heroes, villains or secondary characters. It knows how...
View ArticleSpeech at a meeting in memory of Ayn Rand
Tonight, I spoke at the NYC Junto event organized by Victor Niederhoffer in memory of Ayn Rand. I had originally prepared a 25-minute speech, which surprisingly I have finished in advance (a premiere,...
View ArticleLa morale est-elle une question politique?
Jeudi 20 janvier 2005, j'étais de par ma réputation de libertarien invité de Henri de Lesquen dans son émission Le Libre Journal des idées politiques sur Radio-Courtoisie, face à André Bonnet dans le...
View Article2005, Year of Ayn Rand
Today is the centenary of the birthday of Ayn Rand, the great thinker of Liberty, who alone dared to defend Capitalism on moral grounds! Let's celebrate, together with the ISIL, Libertarian...
View ArticleIndécence
Les couloirs du métro annoncent Pharaon à l'institut du monde arabe, à grand renforts de sponsors étatiques et para-étatiques. Pourquoi pas Dalai Lama à l'institut du monde chinois? Chef Hutu, à...
View ArticleThe Usual Relativist Fallacies
While in the States, I had an argument with, of all persons, a French man. He argued for relativism, that true and false do not matter, and might not exist at all, that every situation is unique, etc....
View ArticleCapitalism is the Institution of Ethics
On the first weekend of April, I attended the Spring 2005 Convention of Libertarian International, in Sofia, Bulgaria, as organized by the Bulgarian Society for Individual Liberty. I was a speaker,...
View ArticleMulholland Falls
At the ITA movie night this week, we watched Mulholland Falls by Lee Tamahori (1996). A good film noir on the Evil of Power. Synopsis: little evil meets Big Evil and gets a glimpse of what Evil is....
View ArticleCh'tite question à nos amis les bêtes
Petite question à nos amis les bêtes: socialistes, communistes, fascistes, gauchistes, alter-mondialistes et autres collectivistes sous quelque nom que ce soit. Admettons un instant que Robespierre,...
View ArticleA woman stands up straight
My friend Turion compared Ayaan Hirsi Ali to Ayn Rand (in French). Well, Ayn Rand certainly had a much more articulated philosophy, but let's admit Ayaan has a comparably tremendous courage in...
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