Althouse: Notes from the conference.

December 16, 2006

Notes from the conference.

Just a page, with a quote I felt moved to jot down:

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11 comments:

Anonymous said...: Practicing political Darwinists are not too likely to be concerned about souls (or hearts). It is all about the mind. And markets.; 12/16/06, 10:36 AM
American Liberal Elite said...: They have great croissants at the Sofitel. And comfortable beds.; 12/16/06, 10:52 AM
Gray said...: "one thing you won't find is anything about the human soul."

Well, I guess that supports Althouse's view. I'm a bit surprised about her side blow against linertarians, though.
Let the outcries of the obectivists begin!
:); 12/16/06, 12:32 PM
Ann Althouse said...: Gerry: It was said aloud and not by me. It was a little aside, intended to be humorous, but with -- I think -- I ring of truth.; 12/16/06, 1:22 PM
Gray said...: “There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.”
Friedrich Nietzsche; 12/16/06, 3:29 PM
reader_iam said...: Paul: Good move, quoting from "We The Living" in particular.; 12/16/06, 3:45 PM
reader_iam said...: I missed this one last night. Disgusted with the Republican party over such as issues as spending and privacy, former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr has switched to the Libertarian Party and will be the party's Regional Representative to the South.; 12/16/06, 4:17 PM
PG said...: We the Living is Rand's best novel. I agree that libertarians who haven't progressed past Ayn Rand are a little scary; they are to literature/ politics what a 30-year-old still listening to N'Sync is to music. Although reading Ayn Rand is really necessary for understanding Libertarians, particularly the nuttier ones. Nuttier ones = sense of persecution. In fact I think a sense of persecution distinguishes all people at the far ends of political spectra from people more toward the middle.; 12/16/06, 4:35 PM
hdhouse said...: the doodles have a double insight:

1. the conference had about as much substance as george bush's reading list without the popup books and
2. little orphan annie althouse as the attention span of george bush.

I can just imagine ann's first day of con law:

class class come to order. the topic today is:

"we the people..." surely they didn't mean all people. dismissed.; 12/17/06, 5:01 AM
Meade said...: "Neither Hanna, born in 1910, nor Barbera, born in 1911, set out to be cartoonists. Barbera, who grew up in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, originally went into banking. Soon, however, he turned his doodles into magazine cartoons and then into a job as an animator."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061218/ap_on_en_ot/obit_barbera_13; 12/18/06, 10:39 PM
Perry said...: If being soulless equals trusting in people the ability to work out most issues and problems by themselves with a minimum of force and coersion from third parties, than call me soulless.

Personally I find it soulless that so many people think that not only do they have the answer to other people's problems, but that they have the right to fix those problems on their behalf.

As Bastiat once said,

"The plans are all different, but the planners are all the same".; 12/19/06, 10:21 AM