Back to AtD. the ideal timelessness of common sense

[Mark Kohut]

P writes:
It's good news that modern physics seems to supersede the ancient paradoxes. But where is that Hadron Collider that can point the way toward some SOCIAL solution to the "can't get there from here" problem?

Anarchism, the perfect democracy, leaderless and unplanned, can only be gotten to by central planning, enforced by an autocracy.  (same goes for socialism)

Is Yashmeen sensing THIS paradox?

I better go back and reread the passage.
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yes, I say she is....she, at this stage, expresses all the intelligent beliefs about getting to that state. 

Yet, I don't want to argue that TRP believes we can or should get there totally either...the mistake of drawing
a political platform from a work of fiction. It is as he wants to say: some kind of ideal, in some places, some times,
in some ways, etc......

And, this occurred to me since yesterday's post.....another reason a guy with beliefs like McTaggart's is used for this
witticism may be that since clocktime is so bound up with industrialism, to not believe in Time is to live closer to
a pre-industrial clockless time, ruled by seasons, weather, the rising and setting of the sun, etc... 
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