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Esoteric Agenda and Kymatica - By Ben Stewert

There is an Esoteric Agenda behind every facet of life that was once believed to be disconnected. There is an Elite faction guiding most every Political, Economic, Social, Corporate, some Non-Governmental or even Anti-Establishment Organizations.
This film, created by Ben Stewart, uses the hard work and research of professionals in every field helping to expose this agenda put the future of this planet back into the hands of the people


http://www.oneballmedia.com/video/esoteric_agenda
 
Not according to the socialist doctrine SuN ascribes to. I sometimes think she posts these things, just to have the righteys and centrists facepalm simultaneously.
 
No, Rand was on the right track, not totally correct. She provided a framework for how a capitalist economy could thrive. She believed in a utopian society of intellectual capitalists. With man's current basal instincts blocking his rational judgement, we are incapable of attaining her ideal society. What we can agree upon is that monopolies in the wrong hands cause great damage. Totalitarians are still totalitarians whether they wear a presidential pin, uniform, or business suit.

I will argue that Rand knew what she was talking about when it came to economics. Allan Greenspan (former chairman of the fed) was one of her students. He managed to keep this country moving for several decades, despite politicians' attempts at torpedoing his work.
 
And now we're all fucked because that incompetent shithead, Obama, decided to "save" our economy by massively devaluing our currency.
 
It wasn't worth anything to start with, over inflated....still inflated....at least he didn't drag the rest of the world into the bottomless pit
 
SuN said:
It wasn't worth anything to start with, over inflated....still inflated....at least he didn't drag the rest of the world into the bottomless pit
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Yeah, I'm sure the rest of the world's going to be just fine when the American economy collapses into a black hole.
 
Conchaga said:
No, Rand was on the right track, not totally correct. She provided a framework for how a capitalist economy could thrive. She believed in a utopian society of intellectual capitalists. With man's current basal instincts blocking his rational judgement, we are incapable of attaining her ideal society. What we can agree upon is that monopolies in the wrong hands cause great damage. Totalitarians are still totalitarians whether they wear a presidential pin, uniform, or business suit.

I will argue that Rand knew what she was talking about when it came to economics. Allan Greenspan (former chairman of the fed) was one of her students. He managed to keep this country moving for several decades, despite politicians' attempts at torpedoing his work.
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That post was stoned nonsense that I wrote because I had found out that the Truth was that all the main problems of our era were a result of people disregarding Tradition and deciding they didn't need to learn the rules before they broke them. 14 words, 88, etc.

I do still have a problem with Ayn, though. As you kind of outlined above, her theories don't make the transition from homo economicus land to economic reality, and they're even worse if you try to run a whole government by them. Her brand of libertarianism does have some things to add to the general body of political theory, but too many of her followers seem to treat Atlas Shrugged as an actual treatise on how to run real-world governments, which is just as ridiculous as doing the same thing for, say, Leviathan.

I guess I could say I don't really dislike her, just her followers, but I really hate people who say that about Marx, so I'll keep forging ahead.
 
Nothing to do with economics, but I couldn't resist:

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FBI, I do tend to agree with you about her followers. They read Atlas Shrugged and treat it as canon. A lot of them don't look deeper into her actual philosophical writing, or her teachings about metaphysics. She didn't want to have a government at all, really. She just wanted to tell people how to live thier lives to the fullest. She wanted happy, free-thinking, unopressed people populating he Earth.
 
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