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<title>Jack Plant</title>
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I can understand one's fascination with Saul even though I thoroughly disagree with his thesis, and viewpoint. His assumptions are staggering, his conclusions baffling and I find in him an intellectual dishonesty that is appalling and fundementally evil. His speech was full of contradictions, non-sequitors and false analogies. All in all, he is a master of the art of baffling brains with total bullshit. Maybe I shouldn't say "total". He throws enough facts in to keep us guessing, but his sweeping generalities and banal observations wear thin very quickly. If anyone is an "elite", it is Saul, he is a hypocrite of the first order. I saw him being interviewed once after he wrote Voltaire's Bastards and he said: "When one believes in the supremacy of reason, what you end up with is Nazi Germany.....unbelievable!!!  Now THERE was a "reasonable" society eh?? ,...and people actually believe that crap!!  It says a lot about the state of intellectual debate in this country, and in the world today.]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:46:52 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Phil Gillies</title>
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I just watched a recording of John Ralston Saul's October 8 speech on The End of Globalism" and have to say I found it absolutely riveting.  I have never read one of his books, and was only vaguely aware of his reputation as a thinker.  That stops today.

Saul has me thinking about present economic and political trends in a completely different way.

I am going out to buy this book asap.]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 06:04:26 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Tom Poiker</title>
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I came across an article on Koprotkin who argues that evolution does not happen (at least not entirely) by brutal competition and elimination but by collaboration. Very much in the spirit of the Collapse. Have a look if you can find it:

Kropotkin vs. Darwin, Cooperation as an evolutionary force. By Geoff Olson. Common Ground, September 2005, pp11, 32, 34.]]>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:51:36 PDT</pubDate>
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