Psycho Bunny said, "100% freedom is chaos." This is wrong. In a civil society all members live freely, under laws they have devised and have agreed to obey. Phycho Bunny needs to read On Constitution of the Civil Society by John Locke. ----- JWThinkwright
It was you who presented the scurrilous, ad hominem attacks on Karl Popper, via a trumped up dialog, presumably between you and “Leo Strauss.” I don't think I need know more.
Cornelis: Looks as though youve been sippin too much Kool-aid at the Soroz ranch. Popper has long attracted hate-filled, venomous, ad hominem attacks from the intellectual elite. I think the elite took the off-ramp when Popper revealed modern Sociology as a bogus science. He pulled the mask off sociology in his Book, In Search of a Better World, Chapter 5, The Logic of the Social Sciences. The elite also hate Popper for his strong stance against Relativism. As far as positivism is concerned, forget it. If you had really read any Popper, you would have known he frequently stated he was not a Positivist. Every now and then, he would write: I am often wrongly called a Positivist. Look at In Search of a Better World, Chapter 15. What does the West Believe in?; third paragraph, wherein he flatly states, This means I am a rationalist, and that I believe in Truth and human reason. As a dunce, he went a long way: private correspondence with the leading thinkers of his time; recognition from Parliament (knighted in 1965); hatred by leftists around the globe.
PS: I can only surmise your state of mind after the recent Senatorial election in Massachusets. Have a good day. ----- JWThinkwright
Muawiyah:
An excellent description of the origins of Fascism can be seen here on Free Republic by searching for “Sindicalism is alive and well in Washington.” Googling the same string of words will get you there too. The symbol chosen by Mussolini was from ancient Rome, and depicted a bundle of sticks tied around the outside of the handle of a battle ax. —— JWThinkwright