Question for Richard Fiero

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Sat Aug 11 18:26:38 CDT 2001


So, what point are you making about Mike Fallopian?

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on 8/12/01 3:49 AM, Richard Fiero at rfiero at pophost.com wrote:

> 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.




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