Destroying all the planet, from the grave.
All three Harridans - Isobel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand - died years ago .
But they are still uniquely honored by the mostly male (and male chauvinistic) libertarians of the world as "The Founding Mothers" of Libertarianism.
Yes - there are no Founding Fathers of this uniquely male-centric theology of greed and self-centredness.
The Mother of All Mothers for libertarians was a Canadian - Isobel Paterson.
Who could imagine that such as self-absorbed, self-centred bunch of perpetual teenage boys as the libertarians could have been birthed by women and Canadians, rather than by some hard-bitten Texan macho types .
Life is stranger than Hollywood....
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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