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<p>You’re probably right, but trying to be an intellectual amongst the masses is like trying to light a fire in a windy tunnel during a thunderstorm and frustration can result.</p>
<p>Oh. Yeah. Right. That must be it. Reminds me of the attitude: “The whole world is crazy except you and me. And I am not so sure about you.”</p>
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You want cap good or bad?</p>
<p>“I’m not going to spoon feed YOU the insight I have about property rights, because I’ve actually sat down and taken time to think about it.”</p>
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<p>If you think you have nothing to learn, and you don’t want to work…</p>
<p>Your life will be mundane no matter where you are. Sorry. I guess we’re all just too stupid for you. Your life is guaranteed to be boring, people will irritate you and fail to recognize your amazing genius, and you will never live up to your potential because of the inherent unfairness of society.</p>
<p>I know someone like that. At 55, he’s a heroin addict, and on public assistance. Hey. He’s still alive at 55. WIN!</p>
<p>I’m not trying to convince anyone. Hey, are you here to contribute to the thread? Your previous comments led me to believe you would bring some sort of higher morality into the discussion.</p>
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<p>Jym:</p>
<p>letmegooglethatforyou.com</p>
<p>Do not use it with your parents, no matter how tempting. Only to be used with spouses if they have done something really mean, like called you a name in an argument or eaten the last Girl Scout Cookie.</p>
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<p>I want war, if that’s possible.</p>
<p>LOL, mmeZeeZee. I am guilty of eating the last Girl Scout Cookie.</p>
<p>And bingo – your post #65 says it all. I am hoping someone will shoot this thread and take it out of its misery.</p>
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Both sides link to war. Just go ahead and say your piece and we’ll go from there.</p>
<p>BTW, to provide a quasi-plausible explanation for why this thread shouldn’t just be closed now: any hope for helping the OP resolve his education-related issues seems to be contingent on understanding his worldview with regards to his place in society.</p>
<p>“The comfort of the rich depends on an abundance of the poor.” To answer your question noimagination, maybe what I want is to get rich, and live like a king? So people like jym626 can polish my shoes or whatever he does.</p>
<p>Looks like losermans attitude hasnt changed much since his response to posters in this thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-life/1055540-i-got-suspended-stanford-one-year.html#post11711411[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-life/1055540-i-got-suspended-stanford-one-year.html#post11711411</a> Seriously loserman, get some help and get on track.</p>
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<p>Do you really want to get into a conversation about war and capitalism? I’m afraid it will end up irritating anyone who reads it, will end up in a meaningless psuedo-intellectual bickering. </p>
<p>I’m not sure what you mean by good cap or bad cap, but we could first start with the mechanics of capitalism. We could first start with the value of money.</p>
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<p>Just had to post that. Last post. :D</p>
<p>(Oh, since this is the last post, Loserman, there are some great debates about the value of money over at The Economist in the comments sections. Since you want to discuss that.</p>
<p>Or would talking with people who really know what they’re talking about and work in those fields burst your bubble? Don’t worry–at least half of them are hacks.)</p>
<p>Actually, this advice of yours to the OP in that other thread was helpful. You should listen to it.
The rest-- not so much.</p>
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If your goal is to get rich, I think a college degree would be beneficial. However, an attitude adjustment will also be necessary and should probably occur prior to returning to school. If you adopt the perspective of a rational, self-interested actor many of the concerns mentioned in your previous posts evaporate. Basic cost/benefit analysis will help you reach your goals.</p>
<p>Re Voltaire: <a href=“http://dss.ucsd.edu/~egartzke/publications/gartzke_ajps_07.pdf[/url]”>http://dss.ucsd.edu/~egartzke/publications/gartzke_ajps_07.pdf</a></p>
<p>EDIT: I’m not sure what the mods consider “politics,” but this secondary discussion might be better conducted via PM. If you have responses to Gartzke or want me to cut a specific portion for you to address you can send me a PM.</p>
<p>Great find there MMZ.</p>
<p>@Noimagination, the article looks like it has some substantial information in it, I won’t go through all of it though, not only would it take too long but I have a very short attention span so I’d quickly die of boredom.</p>
<p>My hypothesis centered on the historical probability that given crowded overpopulation and scarcer resources, economic competition will become too great to sustain growth and peace. Since all war and conflict is caused by competition for resources and most of the Earth’s resources have been plundered. Not to mention the growing gap between the very rich and the rest of society. Regarding property rights, all money and value flows from the material resources of the earth and there’s a conflict since resources are scarce. How can future generations justify property rights if there are no more resources to own? My own opinion is future generations will come to believe that property rights are arbitrary at the very least, and possibly go further and say that property rights are gained through war and conflict.</p>
<p>If any of this is misplaced or incorrect, I welcome discussion. But Yea, we could probably discuss this through PMs.</p>
<p>That sounds like a much better idea.</p>
<p>Funny too-- as Thumper mentioned above, for someone who planned to refrain from posting, they posted 21 times in this thread :)</p>
<p>I will PM you. Regarding the threat topic… I’ll stand by what I’ve said. It’s up to you to decide what you want to do with it.</p>
<p>I don’t feel like it’s necessary to have any sort of attitude change, though, since I feel like I’ve been in a prison (school) for so long. This is my time to rebel and gain freedom. I can’t see myself going back to school anytime soon. I just don’t value anything at school. Even if there were real, deep, meaningful conversations that happened and I had a lot more freedom to choose classes and such, I still don’t think I could justify going, two reasons 1) Most information is available via amazon.com or bittorrent, and I don’t feel like having an ideological bias imposed on me and 2) that employers should value my abilities from what I’ve done, and not a piece of paper.</p>
<p>LOL! Ya gotta love those existential non-conformists. Every street corner needs one of those. Makes a parent so proud…</p>