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julius comments on On The Unenlightened Prince of Wales

julius — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:07:13 +0000

I do believe that the primacy of Reason is a good starting point for a critique. All our modern systems may be predicated on reason but the people who work within them and whom they serve have never operated on that basis in practice. If ever they have, the results have been soulless and cruel.

Paul Seaman comments on On The Unenlightened Prince of Wales

Paul Seaman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:45:46 +0000

I'm a defender of Enlightenment principles. But I'm also post-modern. Conflicted? You bet, and so are most of us.

Tim Pendry comments on The COI - Making Taxes Work For You?

Tim Pendry — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:53:03 +0000

This Posting was referenced by Simon Collister at We Are Social's Blog - http://wearesocial.net/blog/2010/02/conservatives-nudge-marketers/

Simon's posting is a very sound and recommended review of current Conservative Party interest in 'behaviourial economics' (often termed 'libertarian paternalism').

Our posting is cited as a highly cautious response to this agenda.

Larry O'Hara comments on The TPPR Group - A Mini Quarterly Report

Larry O'Hara — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:29:52 +0000

The last entry by Evie above [now deleted] looks like spam that inadvertently eloquently illustrates the perils of the internet. More broadly, I am going to think long & hard about the campaign TPPR supports on the right to pay (or not) for digital information content. I am not yet convinced that all publishing should take place within the Matrix--sorry, the internet! That, however, is for another day. In the meantime, why have relevant regulatory authorities in the US not taken down the site Evie advertises? They should.

Lazlo Woodbine comments on Climate Change & Cold Fusion

Lazlo Woodbine — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:59:15 +0000

Let's remember, however, that if human-created global warming is a fact then any moves towards 'adaptation', based on the same CO2-emitting energy sources that caused the change that we are adapting to, are self-defeating and will amount to simply business as usual. This is why the arguments for adaptation are so often part of the repertoire of arguments deployed by those who don't really agree with the idea of an industrial link to climate change.