dude. you have got to be kidding me. i guess i always find it a bit puzzling when, in charge of "the greatest military the world has ever known," or in general a world-annihilating power, you are saluted as the personification of peace. barack obama has no power that does not rest on violence. truly: let him disarm entirely and then see what he can do with healthcare reform. no i'm serious: it's great he wants everybody to have health insurance: now enforce an individual mandate with no coercive force: no prisons, no weapons, by sheer inspiration.  but as he prosecutes his wars, he's trying to minimize civilian casualties.

give it to you again: the nobel laureate is martin luther king...with predator drones. anyway, obviously i would always choose a dissident, and to be fair the nobel often goes to dissidents. in my view, ron paul would be a more plausible choice than barack obama. not only does he want to radically curtail our military adventures, but he wants to radically curtail the power of government, i.e. violence.

i propose this to you: every principled advocate of peace is an anarchist or is embroiled in massive internal inconsistency: just p and not-p in your face.

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[mr.fun]

if only the Bonel Prize would mean what they mean it to mean!!!

[Andrew Dobbs]

I actually tripped into anarchy after getting really into nonviolence and the peace movement. After I realized that anarchy was the only coherent nonviolent political philosophy I ended up ditching nonviolence for anarchy.

Kissinger, Arafat, Teddy Roosevelt and Obama... to hack Bill Maher (I think, it could have been somebody else) they ought to rename it the Nobel Prize for Irony.

[mr.fun]

no way dude, absurdism is fun!

[crispy]

megadeth! thanks serracho. and hey good point, funster: maybe i'm less happy about absurdity than i thought.

[el serracho]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQcNdZCNJTk

[mr.fun]

I like how this follows a post on absurdism. nicely done!