Will Wilkinson, "Libertarianism and the Politics of Everything"
He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator - though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.
18/05/2015
Libertarians vs. Marxists: The Extremes Don't Touch
Libertarians [...] tend to see life within the ubiquitous life-structuring matrix of state-backed legislation as a distortion of natural or ideal human relations in much the same way that Marxists see private property as a distortion of natural or ideal human relations.
16/05/2015
What Is Not Procrastination?
People commonly use the word "procrastination" to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what's happening as merely not-doing-work. We don't call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.
Paul Graham, "The Acceleration of Addictiveness"
20/02/2015
What Is Force?
No woman should be authorised to stay at home to bring up her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one. It is a way of forcing women in a certain direction.
Simone de Beauvoir, quoted here
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