tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post8720027194662057911..comments2024-03-16T08:04:53.086-05:00Comments on Dredd Blog: The Government of MOMCOM: Wartocracy - 2Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-21716361416713490992014-05-24T12:09:15.875-05:002014-05-24T12:09:15.875-05:00Dredd said "Aristotle pioneered the use of th...Dredd said "<i>Aristotle pioneered the use of the term [oligarchy] as a synonym for rule by the rich, for which the exact term is plutocracy." (Wikipedia, "Oligarchy")</i>."<br /><br />He also "<i>Believed the mind was located in the heart, which contained all emotions and thinking. The brain was instead a radiator used to cool the heart</i>." <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/courses/1010/mangels/neuro/history/history.html" rel="nofollow">Link</a>Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-25982405783693910152014-03-18T10:37:54.672-05:002014-03-18T10:37:54.672-05:00BTW, you have an interesting blog (Repairing The S...BTW, you have an interesting blog (<a href="http://rsjexperiment.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Repairing The Scales of Justice</a>).Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-1502048339035769482014-03-18T10:29:14.582-05:002014-03-18T10:29:14.582-05:00On the post "Epigovernment: The New Model&quo...On the post "<a href="http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2012/12/epigovernment-new-model.html" rel="nofollow">Epigovernment: The New Model</a>", a commenter wrote:"<i>Dear Dredd, ... Epigov't meme is a strong useful word and concept</i>."<br /><br />People differ on the concept I suppose.<br /><br />In the realm of genetics when the word "epigenetic" was used to describe the discovery that personal behavior could turn genes on or off in an individual and even in that person's children, the word "epigenetic" was controversial for a time.<br /><br />Now it is considered very basic and it is a branch of science.<br /><br />Political science is slower.<br /><br />"<i>Aristotle pioneered the use of the term [oligarchy] as a synonym for rule by the rich, for which the exact term is plutocracy</i>." (Wikipedia, "Oligarchy"). <br /><br />Some people still call our plutocracy an oligarchy as Aristotle mistakenly did in the 300's BCE.<br /><br />The Wall Street Journal has more recently said: "... <i>the U.S. is becoming a Plutonomy – an economy dependent on the spending and investing of the wealthy. And Plutonomies are far less stable than economies built on more evenly distributed income and mass consumption</i>." (<a href="http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2011/11/homeland-big-brother-plutonomy-2.html" rel="nofollow">The Homeland: Big Brother Plutonomy - 2</a>). <br /><br />To call a plutocracy an oligarchy is not technically correct, because they are very different, so I don't.<br /><br />Epigovernment can have a controlling influence on any type of government (oligarchy, democracy, plutocracy, etc.) without being an actual or official part of said government.Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629960642482064127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-69901088752485432192014-03-18T08:50:08.685-05:002014-03-18T08:50:08.685-05:00Dredd, This is H. Skip Robinson. Good to see you d...Dredd, This is H. Skip Robinson. Good to see you do this blog. Over my years of writing, I've noticed that the various groups within the left/right spectrum utilize different terms to make themselves look good and to make their opponents look bad. The way I see it, it's about trying to get the majority to understand the words and terms that are being utilized by the "establishment" as I think the Republicans and Democrats are both just puppets of the oligarchs. If you've noticed, the term oligarchs is used by numerous dissenters of the various policies of government and has been used for by some for a very long time. The term you used for above government, not one in 1 million people have ever heard of it. If you writing for a very small intellectual group, it's one thing, but on a blog to promote some idea of what you believe that may or may not be true is the wrong place and wrong time.<br /><br />Until people like you and I realize we're on the same team the world is going to remain deadlocked. There are just to many anti-capitalists in the world who have been taught to hate capitalism by the main stream media and the oligarchy, they represent. I assure you the capitalists (libertarians) are not part of the oligarchy as Ron Paul found out during the last election. As one friend likes to say the republicans are fascist and the Democrats socialists. Another says they're fascist to the right and fascists to the left. These are the terms they use to describe our political world and were not influenced by me. I agree with the latter, and so do many people but we can argue that. That's my point, the world has already set the preferred terms in use, despite what you are I write. It is our job to make sure that people understand them correctly. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-60487993324476047362012-09-25T08:19:33.849-05:002012-09-25T08:19:33.849-05:00The old gunboat diplomacy has morphed into drone d...The old gunboat diplomacy has morphed into drone diplomacy in this the space age.<br /><br />The results are 18th Century FAIL just as gunboat diplomacy was: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/25/study-obama-drone-deaths" rel="nofollow">Link</a>Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.com