Comments on: The Individual, his freedom and victory

By: l0lapx

l0lapx — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:30:48 +0000

Dear Erica, you sound like the expert in Basement, American ? are we?

By: Erika

Erika — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 00:18:25 +0000

lolapx, maybe you should move out of your mom’s basement.

By: Erika

Erika — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:13:36 +0000

Anybody have some troll poisoning pellets?
I accidentally left mine at my other castle with my asbestos undies.

By: chefjemichel

chefjemichel — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:35:46 +0000

I’d like to see a reference cited for “Mill’s” in light of the following:

“The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right…The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns him, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#cite_note-31

By: l0lapx

l0lapx — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 22:04:29 +0000

Dear Erica, with respect WRONG, must live in a horrid place with horrid people, VERY SAD

By: H

Wed, 07 Feb 2018 19:29:00 +0000

You are right Robert, but most of those people need to be wiped out lol. The world now moves so fast that you must work together, and that is the problem. This also makes sure there are less people purchasing land that can allow them some freedom. Productivity up,individualism down.
Fast paced and network based work environments destroy real community and leave a false community in it’s place. You will see this false community on news segments where everyone cares about each other, soldiers, police, and firefighters are hero’s. I don’t know about you, but I never really heard of someone who became a real hero because they have a hero career slot.
Robert, I live in a small rural area now. What I have seen shocked me. Rural areas are truly communist and there is very little freedom of speech. The only way to keep a business running in areas like this is if you joined the right organization or church group or who have relatives that have. Many poor people are available as rent-a-mobs and are used to discredit and damage the reputation and belongings of people who are well meaning, but outside the collective. Much jealousy, entitlement, prostitution, and generational abuse has festered in these areas long enough. It is time people come clean about the truth of small town or rural life. The TV is not going to give you a good perspective about interconnected rural living.

By: Robert Klinck

Robert Klinck — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 13:34:52 +0000

To say it’s a lie that the individual cannot stand on his own has wide-reaching implications. I am very glad that I do not stand strictly on my own: it means I can enjoy owning a car and being able to have fuel for it and new tires as needed and roads to drive on, and I can enjoy a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables grown by other people during my wintertime. Where I live I doubt if many people would survive one year of trying to “stand on their own”. The reality is that, however much it may annoy some egos, how we live today is conditional on a vast complex of interdependent relationships—and that these are indeed the basis of a potential personal freedom such as no previous generation has known. Unfortunately we allow the bulk of the benefits to be stolen and redirected against our interests by an unsound financial system.

By: Erika

Erika — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:58:49 +0000

Yes, who decides the value system.

It appears to me that all the “solutions” offered whether psychological or “spiritual” are in fact methods of self abandonment.
This only propels and feeds momentum into a vicious cycle which exacerbates the original problem. The original problem is usually only a problem because it is defined as a problem by the powers that be.