Reverse Rorscach

[Faust]

i thought this thread would be something along the lines of someone saying "clown"

and then someone submits this:

[Thurnez Isa]

still nobody has told me who Rorscach is

[Triple Zero]

still nobody has told me who Rorscach is

afaik it's some kind of marvel superhero guy, he's got a trenchcoat and a morphing rorschach blot for a face. someone used it as an avatar a while back.

although that's all i know about him. apparently he's some kind of hardcore vigilante as well.

[Faust]

read the watchmen. Its worth your time

[P3nT4gR4m]

You can't be a really real discordian unless Rorschach is your hero

[Fuquad]

still nobody has told me who Rorscach is

afaik it's some kind of DC superhero guy, he's got a trenchcoat and a morphing rorschach blot for a face. someone used it as an avatar a while back.

although that's all i know about him. apparently he's some kind of hardcore vigilante as well.

He's the only character in "Watchmen" that shows any consistency.  He is also based heavily on "The Question".

[Thurnez Isa]

read the watchmen. Its worth your time

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/485797

now you could get all your watchmen needs in a Saturday morning cartoon

[Template]

2000 "Capitalism may not be perfect, but look at the collapces caused by communism"

2003 "The free market is bringing the greatest prosperity we have ever known

2006 "You can use greed to incentivise your workers"

2009 "Yes, well it was all the banks fault for taking our advice and following our system"

This totally made me laugh. Given that capitalism appears to be in the death throes of it's own, inescapable, conclusion, suddenly all those assholes who screamed "capitalism is the best system we have" look as dumb and shortsighted as all those assholes who said "communism is the best system we have"

Bottom line - we don't have a workable solution. Simply being the most successful of a bunch of dumb ideas =/= workable 

TANSTAGI.
The problem is that Capitalism is an ism.  It's a proposed economy that's driven by market forces and profit motives.  The game can actually work OK under certain conditions.  The problem is that the game is maintained by a referee--a government--and every man has his price, even outside of a Capitalist economy.

[P3nT4gR4m]

The problem with all human systems is the "human" bit.

Put it this way - if there is a god and he did give us freewill then that fucker has a sense of humour after all. We all come out with a mind of our own. Actually that's not strictly true - we come out with a mind, but only a fraction of it is our own. The rest is biologically and socially programmed, open to exploitation and subject to change.

But we all have one each and that's (x-1)* too many for an economy or a government or even a fucking sewing circle to run efficiently.

*x being the given population of any society or economy or sewing circle.

[Cain]

P3nt, you should really read some Foucault.  You'd like him.  I'll explain why in an essay or rant, but essentially you said the same thing there as he did towards the end of his work in the 80s, after he'd finished bumming people out by talking about prisons and knowledge and power and how essentially everyone is fucked because power exists everywhere.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I don't often read highbrow stuff like Foucault and the like but if and when I do I always prefer if I've already considered at least the outline position by myself. Gives me a sense of accomplishment

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

i dunno - looks more like the roots are upside down gnomes playing cards to me.

You're both wrong. It is a winged, crowned Charlie Brown wearing vulcan ears and reading a book, while sitting on a fractal lotus that is sitting on a six-dimensional bong.

[P3nT4gR4m]

read the watchmen. Its worth your time

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/485797

now you could get all your watchmen needs in a Saturday morning cartoon

That was fucking superb!