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I'd argue that post-scarcity and scarcity-incorporating socialism are just as bad as each other. They're both fantastical thought exercises with no empirical basis. The former is based either on the notion of a) technological and cultural revolution eliminating scarcity, or b) that scarcity is a...

What an incredibly unsophisticated vulgar Marxist analysis. Hegelian dialectics, technological fetish, extreme anti-empiricism, an extremely crude Smithian interpretation of productive and unproductive labour, all the hallmarks are there. Sapolsky is a genius and it's a shame that he got mixed...

Re: Libya part 2 A no-flight zone of Palestine wouldn't achieve anything. The rebels will pay for this favour with oil.

Re: Libya part 2 The constitution mandates that the President give a report, within 48 hours after commitment, to Congress in regards to the circumstances/scope/duration etc of a commitment to hostilities. The commitment must be terminated after 60 days (or 60+30 days) unless Congress declares...

Not quite. Just sayin'. Legislative/judicial authorities like that can say whatever the fuck they want is a human right if they can frame it properly. Your question was how can something so relatively new be a 'human right'. They already answered that question for you. But I would like to point...

what if your food is on fire

Because it's critical reading 101

Carbon tax, and then carbohydrate tax. Population control. What element is next?

I read that whole fucking column. It liquified my brain.

Any sovereign member of the UN can invade another sovereign member of the UN if the UNSC authorises it.

Qaddafi probably has a shitheap of blackmail material against a few Western governments and leaders. There really isn't any place for this blackmail unless his life is being threatened.

My favourite part was when Barrel O'Farrell was being politically correct about wood.

All these arguments are presuppose that an Afghan life is worth as much as a Westerners life (as a proxy for Australians). Just sayin.

I agree with you to a point. But I think that it's hard to argue that British nationalism/imperialism/exceptionalism (and Australian for that matter) is entirely a machination of the aristocracy. Those beliefs themselves are emergent from aspects of human-tribal psychology. I certainly agree...

What a robust and thoughtful analysis. I'd say that it's in part applicable to the modern soldier-hero meme, but the historical context of the meme is far more complex. I think, in part, it is also attributable to the social attitudes regarding active service during World War I/II, which we...

In before our esteemed colleague David Barnes proposes we revert to a system of State-run industrial relations in which wage rises are to be inflation-indexed.

Australian soldiers cannot refuse a deployment order. It is exactly that - an order. The only way he/she can circumvent the order is to give cause as to why the deployment is inappropriate, illegitimate, etc. A soldier can demonstrate that he/she is a conscientious objector, can plead for...

Strawman erryday

Because they're wasting my time. I presume they're doing this because they're monkeys.

The enrollment staff are a bunch of fucking monkeys.