acb + psychoceramics 7
China Miéville's critique of floating libertarian utopias
august 2011 by acb
"Beyond the single one-trick fact of its watery location, it is tragically non-ambitious, crippled with class anxiety, nostalgic not for mythic glory but for the anonymous sanctimony of an invented 1950s. This is no ruling class vision: it is the plaintive daydream of a petty bourgeoisie, whose sulky solution to perceived social problems is to run away—set sail into a tax-free sunset. "
politics
libertarianism
objectivism
utopia
psychoceramics
august 2011 by acb
A (US) Conservative argument against the Enlightenment
june 2011 by acb
Had things turned out differently, Cultural Marxism may have been routed, and we could be living in a golden age of Christian monarchies
rightwingers
history
psychoceramics
june 2011 by acb
Insane handwritten lawsuit against google for $5bn
september 2007 by acb
For getting their name from the plaintiff's social security number, thus exposing him to mortal peril, apparently...
psychoceramics
google
lawsuit
crackpot
wtf
paranoia
september 2007 by acb
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