the whole debate escapes my grasp

the umpire state of the true liberals
can set any rules of play
so long as their handful of fixed
"natural" axioms
are not violated
this leads in practice to contradictions
liberal state theory
knows not of class interests
only special group interests
which brings us to altruism

the state enforcing our altruism ????
what a briar patch

Posted by: paine | Link to comment | February 14, 2008 at 09:19 AM

paine says...
b wild

"classical liberal pose"

let us be fair to em
before we chop off their heads

at one time some of em
actually believed their
18th century version of newspeak

okay that was maybe two and a half
centuries ago ....
and the pose started with self deluding
monsters of pecksniffian morality
like gladstone and summner

Posted by: paine | Link to comment | February 14, 2008 at 09:23 AM

paine says...
lee

" Romer describes this with regard to innovations "

beware the hoover institutes annointed ones

romer is a bumper car ideologian
his bones making model
a copt formalism
relabeled and assumed into
washington consensus friendly crapola

i'm prepared to go into specifics here

Posted by: paine | Link to comment | February 14, 2008 at 09:29 AM

paine says...
there's a lesson in this
romer cat

science can advance thru
pompous stinkers
as well as lambkin nerds
and ivory cellar mephistos
takes all kinds
even
decent critters like our host mark T
"in what context can we imagine a citizen without a community?"

righto even crusoe had his legacy

humans are social constructions tarzan may have been constructed by "apes"
but he was never the less
socially constructed
and errr regretably
civilizationally reconstructed