re: #383 Salamantis

Of course I am. There are laudable characteristics to both Burkean conservatism and Millian liberalism. They are, however, not shared by either the communist left or the fascist right. Your big mistake is to equate conservatism with the right wing, just as it is many liberals’ big mistake to equate liberalism with leftism.

Bolshii Slovos. You won’t respond thoughtfully or address points made, so up yours. You’re a blowhard, Sal, a pompous pinhead with a mind warped by standing on the University too long, sucking up all that Marxist thought without critically examining where it comes from and how it came to be there. I’ve seen your list of publications, and it’s not impressive—the putative philosopher’s version of the vanity press. You throw big words around until I’m convinced that your spell-checker is really an auto- thesaurus, but you obfuscate rather than illuminate. That crap may fly in the philosopher’s vanity press, where quality of writing seems to be measured with a ruler, minus the sum of CHR$(32), but I am not impressed by the appeal to authority. I made a thoughtful case, you appealed to authority. The difference between you and a bunch of other self-important, condescending windbags is that I like the other ones.