Response to a Reader's Email

A portion of Billy Beck’s response to a reader’s interrogatories in regards to new breeds of cats, a name for a particular philosophy and opposites.

”...here is an important and useful implication: socialist pronouncements are often shot-through with glowing tributes to the “value of the individual” (in all kinds of terms, explicit and implicit), but it is only lip-service, and worse: it is actually a stolen concept. The worst sort of cynicism: an avowal of something that has no place in actual socialist philosophy, but is only used because of its marketability to almost everyone’s common-sense. People know that they are unique and ends-in-themselves. Even socialists know this: observe that, for all their pious concerns over the plight of the downtrodden, none of them give up everything they have for the objects of their concerns. This is because they all know that they, themselves, have their own lives to conduct on their very own terms and conditions, just like those they would harness to serve what they say, but not how they actually live."

As they say, read the whole thing.

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