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2004-03-03

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Posted by Mike 2004-03-03 5:37:03 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Absolutely great post, Mike! This article, in a very clear manner, describes why I always derisively refer to Soro's delusion of being an American. This, by far, is the most dangerous twit in the LLL. Only the Wahhabis and Nayef are more directly dangerous to the security of the West, in general, and the US, in particular. A singular destructive and devisive idiot savante. His arrogance and self-delusion that he's an intellectual are only exceeded by his obvious schizophrenia, exemplified by his characteristic self-hatred and contradictory beliefs. I am, in contrast, only conflicted by whether or not he should be assassinated. And, for those who can't or won't admit to having similar feelings about certain people, bite me! ;->

Posted by .com 2004-3-3 6:06:02 PM|| 2004-3-3 6:06:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 .com,

So I guess you don't like him, do you? ;-)

Posted by Mike 2004-3-3 6:13:54 PM|| 2004-3-3 6:13:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 In case anyone here thinks Soros is somehow a protege of Karl Popper, he is not.

Karl Popper is MVHO the most important thinker of the twentieth century and is still very influential is some right wing and Libertarian circles.

Karl Popper's great insight was that science and liberal democracy are driven by essentially the same mechanisms of disputing and questioning issues, inquiry and intellectual speculation. Both work because they encourage dissent and diversity of views.

Hence my occasional railing against the uniformity of opinion in the mainstream media which I consider profoundly illiberal (in the European meaning of the word).

Everyone should read the Open Society and Its Enemies and then Conjectures and Refutations.

Posted by phil_b 2004-3-3 6:46:52 PM|| 2004-3-3 6:46:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 but left it unfinished when, as he confessed to his biographer, he himself could not understand on the morrow what he had written the day before.
I must confess a certain sympathy, as everyone at RB knows... I've been there.

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-3 7:39:15 PM|| 2004-3-3 7:39:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Why doesn't this guy devote his energy and resources to pushing his Open Society in the Middle East the same way he did in Eastern Europe and the Caucuses?

Why not donate money to liberal democratic opposition groups and organize free press and radio stations in the region of the world that needs them the most?!

Posted by Tokyo Taro 2004-3-3 7:55:55 PM|| 2004-3-3 7:55:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Tokyo Taro - Because he's not interested in other people's freedom, except their "freedom" to do what he says. He knows what's best for everybody, and if they don't agree, he'll just spend money until they're crushed under his heel.

I'm with .com, except not so conflicted.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-3-3 8:30:27 PM|| 2004-3-3 8:30:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 It demonstrates the power and reach of a free economy in a republican democracy when a certified idiot and pedantic asshole, who can't remember what he meant in a direct quote the day before, rises to this level of affluence, arrogance, and condescension. I stand vindicated....

Posted by Frank G 2004-3-3 9:07:30 PM|| 2004-3-3 9:07:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 karl popper's theories lead straight to the moral and ethical relativism of the deconstructionist pomo homos derrida and foucault--totally against a natural rights strausian perspective that most on this board would adhere too--we really can't know anything for sure has no application in the practical world--this pseudo atomist mishagas is highly dangerous and leads to the fallacy of cultural relativism which is anathema to real world action based on a hierarchy of [relatively] absolute values--if you can't know everything for sure you can take a really really good guess based on probability--i.e. that the sun will rise tomorrow morning--he wants to fight a war with miranda warnings--he wants to play checkers while his opponent plays football- a really dangerous man who is only listened to because he made a couple of bucks--resurrect hayek, von mises and strauss to kick his self hating jewish double dipping ass

Posted by SON OF TOLUI 2004-3-4 4:31:58 AM|| 2004-3-4 4:31:58 AM|| Front Page Top

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