Comments on: Circumventing democracy in order to save it: the case of Sam Harris https://thenewneo.com/2022/08/23/circumventing-democracy-in-order-to-save-it-the-case-of-sam-harris/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:37:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2022/08/23/circumventing-democracy-in-order-to-save-it-the-case-of-sam-harris/#comment-2639260 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:37:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=119779#comment-2639260 Pj chose nurse ratchet over mcmurphy still didnt get the point when she lost now everything in this country is wrecked only people in bezos ths times the financial times dont see it does this country have to burn to a cinder and a two front global war could get us there. To wake up

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2022/08/23/circumventing-democracy-in-order-to-save-it-the-case-of-sam-harris/#comment-2639258 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:14:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=119779#comment-2639258 Miguel, own goal. Care to try again, with some punctuation?

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2022/08/23/circumventing-democracy-in-order-to-save-it-the-case-of-sam-harris/#comment-2639256 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:06:59 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=119779#comment-2639256 He long past his rep as republican party animal he became ted knight from caddyshack

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2022/08/23/circumventing-democracy-in-order-to-save-it-the-case-of-sam-harris/#comment-2639254 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 02:46:47 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=119779#comment-2639254 And that has nothing to do with bunges point this is the same carp hillary would havr delivered sans maybe one corona or two including war in ukraine because thats what happened they were in charge

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2022/08/23/circumventing-democracy-in-order-to-save-it-the-case-of-sam-harris/#comment-2639253 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 02:22:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=119779#comment-2639253 P.J. O’Rourke, RIP, 2022, was, like many, wrong about President Trump in 2016.

Bunge in this case is wrong about O’Rourke. Bunge didn’t know he had passed?

Don’t be a Bunge.

]]> By: MBunge https://thenewneo.com/2022/08/23/circumventing-democracy-in-order-to-save-it-the-case-of-sam-harris/#comment-2639247 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:24:57 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=119779#comment-2639247 “I think his type of thinking is typical of a huge number of successful intellectual people who pride themselves on their virtue and their logic but exhibit little of either where Trump is concerned.”

PJ O’Rourke in justifying his vote for Hillary Clinton said she was wrong about everything but “she’s wrong within normal parameters.” O’Rourke, Harris, and their ilk are consumed with xenophobia when it comes to Trump. He’s not like them and that’s all they care about. People like them are allowed to be catastrophically wrong about any and everything. It doesn’t matter because, for all their faux sophistication, O’Rourke, Harris, and their ilk are fragile narcissists who can’t stand the thought of someone not like them being in charge.

Mike

]]> By: MBunge@mail.com https://thenewneo.com/2022/08/23/circumventing-democracy-in-order-to-save-it-the-case-of-sam-harris/#comment-2639245 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:15:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=119779#comment-2639245 “Harris is glib and hides behind his words, but this time he caught himself out.”

The conflation of glibness for intelligence or wisdom is one of the cardinal sins of modernity.

Mike

]]> By: Brian E https://thenewneo.com/2022/08/23/circumventing-democracy-in-order-to-save-it-the-case-of-sam-harris/#comment-2639243 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:08:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=119779#comment-2639243 Peter Nolan

LOL!

]]> By: Peter Nolan https://thenewneo.com/2022/08/23/circumventing-democracy-in-order-to-save-it-the-case-of-sam-harris/#comment-2639242 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:00:45 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=119779#comment-2639242 In regards to his criticism or Trump University “[W]here more was promised consumers than was delivered for the money charged”, wouldn’t that apply to pretty much all US colleges?

]]> By: ObloodyHell https://thenewneo.com/2022/08/23/circumventing-democracy-in-order-to-save-it-the-case-of-sam-harris/#comment-2639171 Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:48:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=119779#comment-2639171 }}} Harris resembles Roper in A Man For All Seasons, willing to cut down every law in England to get after the devil.

Here’s the scene, for those unfamiliar with it. I seem to recall it’s been brought up before, here, and recently, but one may have missed it.

This is a GREAT scene, and everyone should know of it, and live by it every moment of their waking lives… Would that more people knew and felt this way these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUqytjlHNIM

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P.J. O’Rourke has a collection of essays, Eat The Rich

Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UomGB6tW9mM

Synopsis:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815995.Eat_the_Rich

O’Rourke’s essays are an examination of 10 different nations, each exhibiting different components of socio-economic behavior — democracy, rule of law, market ideology, freedom of action, and so forth. He also considers the 10 nations as either a basket case or “doing well for itself and its peoples” (5 each, to varying degrees).

While this is hardly a statistical universe, he does come to the conclusion that there are basically two things needed to be in the latter, rather than the former, classification — one of those is Rule of Law (which ties back to the topic of this comment, and Bolt’s “A Man For All Seasons”)

I do highly recommend it. I think it’s O’Rourke’s second best book, behind Parliament of Whores, and in front of the third place Give War A Chance.

https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Rich-Treatise-Economics-ORourke-ebook/dp/B008UX2W78

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