Originally Posted by issodhos
Originally Posted by 2wins
ironically, since i am read on the subject and even practiced - i'm wondering, Iss, how much of what you enjoy posting here do you actually attempt to put to work in your life? - i offered you links to Mildred Loomis and Ralph Borsodi's decentralized philosophies and cooperative individualism. you never responded to that post? why not? is it because, perhaps, Borsodi and Loomis showed us what individual philosophy looks like up close and personal

Actually, I did respond to that post, 2sins. I wrote:

"Thanks for the read, 2wins, but if you are going to continue to caricature political individualism as being a "lone cowboy slowly riding his horse into the sunset", rather than as a political relationship between the individual and the state, I don't think we are going to get very far. It is a myth about individualism that it some how rejects the idea of individuals engaging in interaction for their mutual benefit or even the benefit of a stranger."

I have gone out of my way to define the terms I have used, yet you and some others continue to substitute a different meaning for the same words without making clear that you are doing so. I can only bother so long with responding to such intentional (or so it is beginning to seem to me) ambiguities before I have to accept that futher response becomes meaningless.

I did go to the Loomis link and found it to be nothing more than a story about a couple of semi-Fabian types seeking to redo the whole Eden thingie. I wonder if this is from whom eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt got their whacky idea to get folks to go back to the country and homestead at the height of the industrial revolution.:-)

Anyway, if you are as well read on the subject as you say, and if Loomis and Borsodi are what you think represents libertarian thought, I have to conclude that some has badly mislead you.
Yours,
Issodhos
actually iss, you'll have to do better than that. you'll have to read their works to get a better understanding of who they were and what they were doing. you're not getting any where and if you don't know about ralph borsodi and the decentralist manifesto and the work they did i have to wonder about your credentials here. seems like you're just dancing around theories to have a little fun with people. if that's the case, ok, no biggy. we all do it. the internet is a great place for that. good luck with all that, iss.

sure, you can talk to god, but if you don't listen then what's the use? so, onward through the fog!