tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post46778470550299656..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: 10-9-10 HodgepodgeGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-79063133653144110882010-10-12T11:18:27.570-06:002010-10-12T11:18:27.570-06:00Mark,
Okay. I think I see what you were driving a...Mark,<br /><br />Okay. I think I see what you were driving at.<br /><br />While I appreciate such confidence, let me be the first to say that you should hold anything I say up to scrutiny, particularly on such difficult matters as judgement of other people. <br /><br />This is for both of our sakes: If I'm wrong about something, it will make me less likely to lead you down the primrose path. And if I'm wrong, I would hope to have some help in gathering the information I need to correct myself.<br /><br />I do think you see this, but it's a point worth making explicit for the sake of anyone who happens by.<br /><br />GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-73317332424148884522010-10-12T10:52:22.200-06:002010-10-12T10:52:22.200-06:00Gus,
Well, none of us are perfect. And, as an adm...Gus,<br /><br />Well, none of us are perfect. And, as an admirer of your blog who trusts your judgement, I might have been predisposed to simply skim the article, had you fully elucidated your own judgement that Tracinski has "cracked up". Instead, intrigued, I read the whole thing.<br /><br />MarkMark Lindholmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14184361531569761797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-2898058468817849002010-10-11T15:34:31.361-06:002010-10-11T15:34:31.361-06:00Nice. You could even just cross out the "for&...Nice. You could even just cross out the "for".Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-81815993250332183072010-10-11T05:07:42.651-06:002010-10-11T05:07:42.651-06:00actually you can easily turn that out around: Desi...actually you can easily turn that out around: Design the Environment. I wonder how that compares to Mo's Harness the environmentMichaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-14228461588345786662010-10-11T04:22:05.755-06:002010-10-11T04:22:05.755-06:00What a Sunsteinian way to propagandize!What a <a href="http://gusvanhorn.blogspot.com/2008/05/nudging-with-gun.html" rel="nofollow">Sunsteinian</a> way to propagandize!Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-4637386228200287962010-10-11T00:07:50.158-06:002010-10-11T00:07:50.158-06:00I noticed that the EPA uses the slogan "Desig...I noticed that the EPA uses the slogan "Design for the Environment". Notice that it subdues production to natureMichaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-59988101696015284912010-10-10T15:22:58.045-06:002010-10-10T15:22:58.045-06:00Mark,
"I was glad you left me free to draw a...Mark,<br /><br />"<i>I was glad you left me free to draw an entirely different conclusion than your own...</i>"<br /><br />This is what is confusing me: In what sense could I possibly NOT leave someone free to disagree with me? I don't think, at least in the ARI dispute, there is enough evidence for anyone to conclude much of anything, morally, about the participants. <br /><br />But what if I did? And what if I thought it so blatantly clear that there was no room for honest error? Would my saying as much cause you to feel <i>less</i> free to make up your own mind?<br /><br />GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-13405084973825444632010-10-10T12:53:12.071-06:002010-10-10T12:53:12.071-06:00Gus,
I'm not sure what's confusing. I was...Gus,<br /><br />I'm not sure what's confusing. I was glad you left me free to draw an entirely different conclusion than your own and I certainly wasn't imagining I had your sanction. I found that many of Tracinski's points echoed my own thoughts about Peikoff. Call it Peikoff bashing if you will - I call it disagreement. <br /><br />It's not only his election recommendations, but the things he says and reiterates time and again that make me believe he has adopted an overblown "christian theocracy" strawman. And he himself will tell you that Rand did not see it that way.Mark Lindholmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14184361531569761797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-66909886270552642892010-10-10T11:55:11.842-06:002010-10-10T11:55:11.842-06:00Mark,
Your first and last sentences confuse me an...Mark,<br /><br />Your first and last sentences confuse me and I disagree with practically everything in between. In particular, if all you see behind Leonard Peikoff's election recommendations was some kind of shallow attempt to differentiate himself from Ayn Rand, then you completely missed his point. On top of that, the sarcastic tone of your comments on Peikoff is completely inexcusable.<br /><br />Do not mistake my recommendation of getting a more complete context regarding what Tracinski says (or about the Peikoff-McCaskey dispute) for some kind of sanction to start bashing Leonard Peikoff. <br /><br />GusGus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-70086564025684854052010-10-10T09:52:47.798-06:002010-10-10T09:52:47.798-06:00I am thankful for your approach of leaving us to d...I am thankful for your approach of leaving us to draw our own conclusions from this ARI fracas. I sympathized with Tracinski, if only because I completely agree with him about the uselessness of the "DIM hypothesis", and I have been befuddled by Peikoff's exhortation to vote for Clinton (because Clinton would ostensibly have brought us to the brink of leftist destruction, causing an inevitable capitalist backlash), and then to vote democrat in 2006. I think Peikoff has gone too far in trying to differentiate himself from Rand, by blowing the religious aspect of conservatism out of all context to turn it into impending theocracy.<br /><br />But there you go. Herd of cats and whatnot.Mark Lindholmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14184361531569761797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-71664662486830371202010-10-09T21:06:59.899-06:002010-10-09T21:06:59.899-06:00"Harness the environment."
Not bad."Harness the environment."<br /><br />Not bad.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-53482115090937178192010-10-09T18:29:33.894-06:002010-10-09T18:29:33.894-06:00the comments on ghate's article are quite reve...the comments on ghate's article are quite revealing. Man is not perfect able. Reason is rationalization etc... Man is fallen yada yada yada<br /><br />you know I think I see your point about not being like the environmentalists and just focus more on promoting our ideas. BTW I think I came up with a good catch phrase: Harness the Environment.Monoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-19547823260128095222010-10-09T16:17:09.826-06:002010-10-09T16:17:09.826-06:00Sure thing. The points raised in the discussion yo...Sure thing. The points raised in the discussion your post touched off have pretty well eviscerated Tracinski's position. Dismuke's managerial insight particularly helped me understand what it was about his piece that rubbed me so far the wrong way.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-61038017690646484142010-10-09T15:47:27.476-06:002010-10-09T15:47:27.476-06:00Hi Gus, thanks for the link. Dismuke has since pu...Hi Gus, thanks for the link. Dismuke has since put in another great comment building on one of mine.Jim Maynoreply@blogger.com