Reply for Richard Fiero

[Richard Fiero]

jbor wrote:
>Disestablishmentarian?
>
>on 8/11/01 12:17 PM, Richard Fiero at rfiero at pophost.com wrote:
>
> > jbor, please locate Mike Fallopian on the political 
> spectrum if indeed he is
> > on it.
> > CoL49 p.51: "You think like a Bircher," Mike Fallopian said. "Good guys and
> > bad guys. You never get to any of the underlying truth. Sure he was against
> > industrial capitalism. So are we. Didn't it lead, inevitably, to Marxism?
> > Underneath, both are part of the same creeping horror."
> >

Yes, "Disestablishmentarian" indeed. Mike is in a bipolar world 
where everyone not in his Society is to the Left of him and 
where Left equates with Statism. The center of Left and Right 
might be a Social Democrat but this is directly opposite Mike 
Fallopian. This cycle traces out an orbit which is like the 
mirrored orbit in V. that I claim is like an urban legend and 
similar to the alligators in the sewers and also Maxwell's 
Demon later in Col49. Like an urban legend because it's flawed. 
Maxwell's Demon violates the second law of thermodynamics by 
moving heat from cold to hot. The orbit in V. is flawed because 
if you slice the Sun with a mirror and let it extend 
indefinitely, the path of the satellite is hidden from view 
when behind the mirror and if the mirror lies in the plane of 
the satellite's travel, the satellite is embedded in the mirror 
and no reflection takes place. Alligators in NYC sewers is a 
'60s urban legend. Birchers are an extreme right-wing group 
with some influence in the U.S. federal guvmint, or it could 
have been the other way around. A front for CIA/DIA/NSA/FBI. 
Now Peter Pinquid made a long circuit himself in " . . . 
bringing a task force around Cape Horn to attack San Francisco 
and thus open a second front in the War For Southern 
Independence." Certainly a blow against statism and of course 
if the Fed had not prevailed the South would have been in very 
deep shit as the market for cotton evaporated leaving the South 
hollowed out in its reliance on slave labor and cotton.

Mike Fallopian continues:
"But that was the very first military confrontation between 
Russia and America. Attack, retaliation, both projectiles 
deep-sixed forever and the Pacific rolls on. But the ripples 
from those two splashes spread, and grew, and today engulf us all.
"Peter Pinquid was really our first casualty. Not the fanatic 
our more left-leaning friends over in the Birch Society chose to martyrize."

So in rent-seeking anarcho-capitalist fashion, Peter retires 
from the unwinnable and grows wealthy in land deals.