The Compiled Rugged Individualist Conversation

[LMNO]

"Thought Leader"

[The Good Reverend Roger]

"Thought Leader"

Oh, that's the guy that thinks up things for other people to do, right?

"I'm more of an idea rat."
- Ratbert

[LMNO]

Yup.  "It would be great for the company if everyone else took a pay cut and worked weekends."

[Nephew Twiddleton]

"Going Rouge".

FTFY in honor of our Sarah.

I still like "innovative", because it doesn't really MEAN anything when they say it. 

For those of you who don't spend an hour a day fucking with libertarians, "Innovation" is how they will be rich.  Details, however, are scanty.  There doesn't seem to be a plan, aside from "Invisible Hand Jesus and Innovation and can I have my Bentley now, please?"

So basically they're Underpants Gnomes.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

"Going Rouge".

FTFY in honor of our Sarah.

I still like "innovative", because it doesn't really MEAN anything when they say it. 

For those of you who don't spend an hour a day fucking with libertarians, "Innovation" is how they will be rich.  Details, however, are scanty.  There doesn't seem to be a plan, aside from "Invisible Hand Jesus and Innovation and can I have my Bentley now, please?"

So basically they're Underpants Gnomes.

Pretty much.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Yup.  "It would be great for the company if everyone else took a pay cut and worked weekends."

That's the guy that the crew meets out in the parking lot for a little remedial "training".

[Pæs]

Derp. The wiki article on self-sufficiency.

The entire population of the world was, at one time, self-sufficient. They made their own clothing, tools, weapons, boats, huts, and food. They used gathering, hunting, herding and farming to find/hunt/grow their own food. As the human population of the world grew, the wild food supply dwindled. People began to rely on herding and farming more; relying less upon gathering and hunting. In modern times, automated food production on farms makes food. The vast populations now depend on a fewer farmers to make their food for them. Many in developed nations now depend on job salaries to buy food, clothes, and shelter, rather than making these things from raw materials found in the environment. But in a few places in the world, native societies continue to be self-sufficient, never having given up their traditional ways of food gathering and food making. Because these native peoples have no jobs and make no salaries, they are often listed as unemployed.

If a community can be a 'self' for the purpose of self-sufficiency, at what point of growth and expansion of communication does the community get large enough that it's consider to be dependent on others, rather than including those others in the 'self'?

[LMNO]

Wait.  That's from wikipedia?

[Pæs]

Wait.  That's from wikipedia?

It's got a so it might not be for long. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sufficiency

[Reginald Ret]

Wait.  That's from wikipedia?

It's got a so it might not be for long. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sufficiency

Saved to HD, just in case it gets lost.

[POFP]

I'm just gonna go back to the original topic here:

This seems to be exactly what I needed to read, based on my confusion with my other post (rant). The thought of being alone had never occurred to me to be a negative stance, but more of a neutral stance. I've never really connected with anyone until recently, and so loneliness was never really a big deal until I read the connection that Nigel made in the OP.

Fuck, I try to take a step back and look at the biggest picture(s) I can see, but I just keep getting fed more small details that change what the bigger picture looks like.

I guess, for me, it always came down to this choice:

Do I take the time to destroy the predispositions and conditioned tendencies that have been instilled into me by the world (And neglect consequences of decisions I make because they condition/predispose me even more), and achieve transcendence through separation of the mind from the body? Or do I base everything I do off of logical reactions to the environment around me, becoming an adaptive robot?

As humans, I guess we tend to do both of these things at the same time, which causes a bit of conflict with others, as our tendencies toward one of these decisions over the others varies from person to person (Minus the occulty-stuff at the end of each decision, that shit is mine).

Or do most people do neither and contribute to the entropy of this cesspool we call a society for no reason at all? Is this the big-picture choice to be made, and is there a right answer? Am I just fucking nuts?

If I am, and you don't want to reply to this nonsense, just know I am a free-market tard, and it did piss me off.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Or do most people do neither and contribute to the entropy of this cesspool we call a society for no reason at all?

Nobody does anything for "no reason at all".  They don't typically have material gain in mind most of the time, if that's what you mean.

] just know I am a free-market tard,

Oh.  I hope you get better.

[POFP]

Nobody does anything for "no reason at all".  They don't typically have material gain in mind most of the time, if that's what you mean.

Yeah, I over-thought that one again.

Oh.  I hope you get better.

Thanks, me too

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Nobody does anything for "no reason at all".  They don't typically have material gain in mind most of the time, if that's what you mean.

Yeah, I over-thought that one again.

Oh.  I hope you get better.

Thanks, me too

Libertarianism/Free Market Tard is the same bad signal that makes people think communism is a good idea.  In fact, the two are more or less identical.

[POFP]

Libertarianism/Free Market Tard is the same bad signal that makes people think communism is a good idea.  In fact, the two are more or less identical.

I see why you would say that, but I think that is because we view things differently on a fundamental level. I'm ok with that though. I disagree with many people in a very similar way. We tend to get along fine now that I've come to see that.