Overall historically the idea that there must be a way of organizing human society which does not rely on coercion as the default organizing principle, and which extends to the economic / material sphere the same principles of democracy we appear to admire for the political sphere, has received comparatively little thought, comparatively speaking.

One set of people who do regularly pursue this line of inquiry cluster around the notion of a "Participatory Economy," with the rather ugly, unwieldy shortened name of ParEcon.

A lot of people have heard of the notion of a "participatory democracy," in which decisions are really taken by ordinary people instead of chosen representatives who decide in their name. This ParEcon approach extends that notion into economic matters.

It may be that such a democratic society is impossible, but it hardly seems sensible that something which would appear to be so beautiful an expression of human aspirations would simply be dismissed without working really hard to realize as many of its principles as possible.

For those curious about some thoughts on why and how we might someday move in that direction, here's a link.

http://www.zmag.org/parecon/indexnew.htm

Karen M., I don't know. But I belive they would call you a G-Glamour (grammar girl), the best helpful spelling bee lady around town.

The geometrical forethought of the scarce gold honey bee population is probably marveling at the human thought expressed here. I believe the human mathematician and the social insect, suggest, once again, that Pappies of 'ole Alexandria letter-commenter would be appropriate to be loitering 'round Here.

OT- Or, Po- pissed off, was a bulbous growth that was deemed (Toomer) good. I.e., a growth was beneficial and purposed to be put is use to be the substance of the earthen heavenly bodies (earthen), and sensitive to the "fifth essence." (Toomer).

It does not matter if we were conceived in a corn field, a pick-up truck, a sheep barn, a Synagogue, a tile Temple, etc., or on a ambrosia church of repentant tears of a modern alter rail.

Is there a hexagonal luv-making position or just a fundamentalist missionary laying posture? I'm behind the times.

If a god has a sense of humour, it was when SHE was watching love-doves coo and do-it at the right moment in a branch tree and witnessed the moment of divine-bird immaculate normal conception. Is she a funny dear notion of a god or what? I am not sure if I'm a Methodist or a non-Precaution non-salaried gynecologist?

If I were a lady, I'd go to a shoe-shine specialist and ask a female midwife if I was PHAT with a feeling of the consequential natural Freshness, pregnant... A malady, a mallard duck, and a monarch yellow and black butterfly fit in a natural scheme, somehow.

I am sick of the yellow liver-bile of the so-called pundit conservative. If I'm ever in a pregnant labor (but I am not a women, and what can a male know, absolutely nothing) I'd suck on a lollipop and ask my partner to rub my Buddha belly as I breathe...Pant.

...I love those outer-pop-belly buttons. A belly button is true art. Watch a naval, and those who rub a friends belly-button do not act contentious or dispute with each other. Try it.

Its/It's marvelous. A belly button is so soft and cute. It needs to be picked of cotton lint once per month. Poke one. Ask? Its not immoral. Its fun.

Once you see a friends naval (or a law judge's) and help then tend, pick lint, and care to gaze for hours at a belly button of a friend, all feverishness and wish to engage in a silly {a}(tear) ulceration, ENDS! The urge to crank and wail, simply goes away. No groan.

What a marvelous belly button we all share in common. It's not true 'If you gazed at one belly button, you've seen them all." Ask to see every-bodies tummy hole. They are all a bit different. Belly buttons are very cute. Be compatible.

The moon is another round globe (howdy silver moon) we can share in common. The moon sees you and will say, "Howdy!" and smile at thee...saying, "Wake up to L.W.M. and keep all damn people blogging...in healthy moderation and a relaxed remedial breath inhale/exhale meditation." You got to remember to keep breathing. In/out. In breath/out breath. Its very simple.

Thanks?

How To Explain Things to Libertarians

Eventually, it happens to all of us. You’ll be talking to someone, online or in person, who seems completely normal. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, the person will say something really weird, like “You can’t fix a problem like underpaid public school teachers by just throwing money at them!” or “Why do they need tax-funded traffic lights at this corner? All the cross-traffic’s already stopped, which shows the Free Market works!” or “Hitler was a Communist! They called themselves the ‘National Socialists’ for a reason!”

You, my friend, have just made the unpleasant discovery that you’ve been talking to a Libertarian....

"Libertarianism originated in the philosophy of a left-wing French political philosopher who also influenced Karl Marx."

http://pandagon.net/2007/02/23/how-to-explain-things-to-libertarians/

This article appeared in Reason magazine in 1998, author Walter Olson. Excerpt and url North is the son-in-law and devotee of Rousas Rushdoony, the founder of Christian Reconstructionism. And apparently North finds some way around stoning gays, and would only imprison them for life. Stoning is for blasphemy and such, my emphasis:

Invitation to a Stoning: Getting cozy with theocrats

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Politically, Reconstructionists have been active both in the GOP and in the splinter U.S. Taxpayers Party; but their greater influence, as they themselves would doubtless agree, has been felt in the sphere of ideas, in helping change the terms of discourse on the traditionalist right. One of their effects has been to allow everyone else to feel moderate. To wit: Almost any anti-abortion stance seems nuanced when compared with Gary North's advocacy of public execution not just for women who undergo abortions but for those who advised them to do so. And with the Rushdoony faction proposing the actual judicial murder of gays, fewer blink at the position of a Gary Bauer or a Janet Folger, who support laws exposing them to mere imprisonment....

So when Exodus 21:15-17 prescribes that cursing or striking a parent is to be punished by execution, that's fine with Gary North. "When people curse their parents, it unquestionably is a capital crime," he writes. "The integrity of the family must be maintained by the threat of death." Likewise with blasphemy, dealt with summarily in Leviticus 24:16: "And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him."

Reconstructionists provide the most enthusiastic constituency for stoning since the Taliban seized Kabul. "Why stoning?" asks North. "There are many reasons. First, the implements of execution are available to everyone at virtually no cost." Thrift and ubiquity aside, "executions are community projects--not with spectators who watch a professional executioner do `his' duty, but rather with actual participants." You might even say that like square dances or quilting bees, they represent the kind of hands-on neighborliness so often missed in this impersonal era. "That modern Christians never consider the possibility of the reintroduction of stoning for capital crimes," North continues, "indicates how thoroughly humanistic concepts of punishment have influenced the thinking of Christians." And he may be right about that last point, you know.

On ultimate goals: "So let us be blunt about it," says Gary North. "We must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God."

http://www.reason.com/news/show/30789.html

Btw, Rockwell does not "let" Glenn post at his site. Glenn let's anyone reprint him, including Rockwell. That's up to Glenn, but I would not go even that far if it means being part of a collection that approvingly hosts the North archives.