Comments | falco528: Butter Battle in a Bottle

falco528

Butter Battle in a Bottle

Sep 06, 2007 01:53

For us in the First World, there are no longer natural contingencies, only social ones. That is to say, evolution has ceased in the Darwinian sense: we have no predators, nor, in the upper echelons of class society, do we have any tangible scarcity of resources. Our only obstacles, therefore, are constructed by the organization of social space. ( Read more... )

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falco528 September 7 2007, 08:21:39 UTC

how dare you

holy_empire September 7 2007, 19:10:29 UTC

I like it. Voted 5.

bahria September 17 2007, 02:55:44 UTC

wow. that is an amazing essay. and i think that the hardest challenge of all is trying to live by values that will give you true happiness like love, sacrifice, and hard work, when our society tells us that the values that truly matter are material wealth, power, and looking out for yourself. kudos to you.

contamity October 16 2007, 20:10:30 UTC

YES
YES.
YES YES YES!
YES

a million times

yes.

contamity October 20 2007, 17:10:09 UTC

It's due in large part to this form of logic (or at least I think so, I'm interested to see what you think) that last year I decided to design the following shirt, which I still really really need to make into a physical shirt. By the way, one other change I need to make- just mentally insert a colon after the word "cereal".

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falco528 October 23 2007, 00:55:06 UTC

lol. well done chris