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Property rights: the reality vs. the ideology of it

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  Property rights: the reality vs. the ideology of it Our idol worship is condemning future generations to indentured servitude. We must get past ideology and embrace clear thinking. ALEX KRAINER Earlier this week a friend sent me an article by one  Martin Hutchinson , publisher of the " True Blue Never Stains " newsletter. This was the first time I'd ever read Mr. Hutchinson, who is apparently well respected among his readers... However, almost until the end of his article, I was convinced that I was reading satire. Hutchinson writes that, "When the Third Reich invaded the last part of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, the Bank of England returned Czechoslovakia's gold and sterling reserves to the German government... That was only proper; the Bank was respecting the property rights of the Czechoslovaks, and the fact that in international law those rights had passed to the new government of Czechoslovakia, by right of conquest." China bad! Hutchinson contrasts

The reactionary misogyny of contemporary transgender ideology

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  The reactionary misogyny of contemporary transgender ideology On the appropriation of the commodified feminine LAUGHLYN (JOHAN EDDEBO) Ok, third strike this morning. I'm just going to say it outright. Contemporary trans discourse is deeply reactionary. It not only fosters a structural (discursive and material) dependence on industrial technology and capital. It not only reproduces what I'd term "spectacular epistemology", i.e. the notion that narrative, and especially mass-marketed narrative, equals truth. It also strongly synergizes with neoliberal ideology in that it ritualistically destroys the very notion of conceptual and metaphysical barriers for consumer license and product demand. Now, even your embodied human nature is to be customized in accordance with your concupiscent preferences. The transgender discourse’s fundamental anti-epistemology, which is at the heart of all of this, manifests in how the mainstream of this ideology emphasizes a radical anti-ess