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#52 2011-05-25 10:53:33
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Re: Plato's Guardians
This is weird. I'm rereading Plato's Republic/Constitution after many years. We need something, that's for fucking sure. If there's one thing I hate, it's a nanny state and political correctness gone mad. Oh, two things. Who the fuck wants to be ruled by a "nanny state"? Most people who use the term are Randian buggers or mad Libertarians who by "nanny state" mean "government". My term for the new economy is economic rape.
"I've played dumb so long it's the only way I know." Me, 2012.
#53 2011-05-25 11:03:45
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Re: Plato's Guardians
From the very beginning Khrushchev had JFK on his heels and treated him like his bitch.
This humiliation lead to the brinksmanship which nearly got us all blown off the planet and yet for some reason this is always overlooked
( Insert image of JFK in sweater and Khakis here )
#55 2011-05-25 11:47:06
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Re: Plato's Guardians
I think what NJS objects to (see his other thread on smoking) is what American paleoconservatives refer to as 'anarcho tyranny'.
Namely failure to punish the real criminals accompanied by the persecution of the law-abiding majority with the introduction of a never-ending list of new and petty rules.
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#57 2011-05-27 11:05:17
- Simon
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Re: Plato's Guardians
If these bred guardians are all going to be blond haired, blue eyed 6ft plus with long legs and huge breasts I'm all for it, as long as there lots and lots of them 'cause I'm going to need at least 2 myself if I'm going to be guarded correctly. If their not going to be bred that way I think its a crap idea.
Blatant Modernist.
#59 2011-05-27 15:37:34
- JohnL
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Re: Plato's Guardians
One of his finest regarding women, I also like "Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants". And there is another but after a nice bottle of Rioca I can remember it..... hic
"The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be. It is a great pity. Because he will never be a success as it" - Jerome K Jerome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVHUA4dZI0o&feature=related
#61 2011-05-28 07:58:22
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Re: Plato's Guardians
Just re-saw Attenborough's 'Gandhi'. That's the kind of guy the world needs now: "My friends all complain about how much it costs them to keep me in poverty"
#62 2011-05-28 08:17:40
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Re: Plato's Guardians
Here you are Simon.
Scroll down here:-
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/john_betjeman/poems/821
#63 2011-05-28 16:03:45
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Re: Plato's Guardians
"The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be. It is a great pity. Because he will never be a success as it" - Jerome K Jerome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVHUA4dZI0o&feature=related
#64 2011-05-28 18:00:42
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Re: Plato's Guardians
Except, maybe, do you want Her looking down, on you, as a worm? Not exactly: you want the worm's eye view up the itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny tennis skirt! - Green teeth glinting 'neath the Camberley pines and, above all, you want to snuggle into that scented wrap in the car park - at exactly a 20 to 1!
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#65 2011-05-29 08:48:18
- Simon
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Re: Plato's Guardians
New balls please!
Blatant Modernist.
#67 2011-05-29 15:55:26
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Re: Plato's Guardians
"The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be. It is a great pity. Because he will never be a success as it" - Jerome K Jerome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVHUA4dZI0o&feature=related