HARMONIC'S PROFILE

author=Craze
and you slapping a thesaurus on the screen is sensible yes

Thanks! That's just naturally how elegantly I talk. I do get accused of thesaurus quite often.

maybe i'll get a second death threat

Whaaambulence

In a world where a dangerous majority of people look to a powerful corporate-controlled government to take care of them and destroy/silence their opponents, something and/or someone(s) need to provide a counterbalance to that undeserved, unbridled power.

author=Dyhalto
I was deriding the person who espouses each individual earning a living off the sweat of their brow, while hypocritically using their time to write diatribes about how the system failed them instead of proposing solutions or working to better their lot in life.

fyi, no offense meant to you personally. I just have a personal bone to pick with libertarianism.

Right, and at no point did I take offense, or show any signs of taking offense.

The system hasn't failed me. That sounds like what a helpless victim would say. However, I am at the point where I have no doubt in my mind that putting your faith in the entrenched 2 political parties is a waste of energy, other than to simply be part of a team and try to 1-up the other guy, which I suspect is the primary motivation for most voters over any sense of ideological advancement.

A bone to pick with libertarianism pretty much sounds like an unshakable belief in violence, aggression and power. The opposite of libertarian is authoritarian, i.e. political control enforced literally by the barrel of a gun. Fall in line, or go to jail, or die. This is what the Democrat Party has become, not this fairy tale of a peaceful, tolerant utopia we're taught to believe growing up - (on topic... from public schools.) They're every bit as bad as Republicans ever were, having successfully blamed Bush for every evil in the world, and now they can take over the task of expanding government power, increasing taxes and fees on Americans, declaring more wars, and spying domestically, immune from criticism due to liberal voter selective ignorance.

Yes Mawk, I realize we were born into the time and place into which we were born. At no point did I claim to have invented fire, the car, the computer, running water, guns, and space flight all by myself. However, supporting an increasingly authoritarian and fascist system is not the answer. And these advancements that made modern civilization possible would never have happened in a Marxist utopia where everyone is equal - equally weak and dependent on a centralized bureaucracy.

Public schooling is a machine designed to facilitate the normalization and consumer preparedness of the peasant class. Only the cream of the crop take from it what they wish to take, outside of what the machine wants.

author=Dyhalto
I was working on a decent reply, but on the third point, I realized we were dealing with a Libertarian.
So really, what we have is another lazy brat who thinks "the system" failed him, and hitched his ideological wagon to a train which, ironically, advocates individualism in the form of personal responsibility. Derp!

You managed to deride both laziness and personal responsibility in the same statement. Cannot process this much irony. Depending on the state for your well-being is laziness and weakness incarnate.

author=mawk
valuable story contributed by man-colter

I'll take my brevity over your shotgun-style posting in an attempt to actually be noticed/relevant