Eric S notapenguin's blog: "A bit more about me"

Bears repeating, I have said this before. I am, I think, more or less and give or take and as increasingly appropriate, a rebel. I speak my mind (more and more... I'm not really as forthright as I'm sometimes told I am just on the basis of my written profile page). I try to think things out for myself. I am not a Rebel, and want nothing to do with the Stars and Bars, with neo-Confederacy, etc.- not just because I was born in New York, not just because I think States' Rights (itself at best, if that, a partway step to self-management) was for most people a rationalization and not a reason for separation and sedition during the actual war itself, though that goes that bit off-topic... there are people interested in the new movement who I like, political beliefs aren't a test for friendship with me (if they affect how one treats other people in practice, one of us is likely to have a talk with the other, the more that shows up, yes...).

(Friends-only commenting in this blog, public viewing. Supplements the profile. One could comment in the profile I suppose if not a CTfriend, would prefer if I were sent a private message instead.) Will supplement this post or, more likely, will add another when back from work instead. I will edit this one, though. A few assorted and unsorted facts about me (again, will edit *g*) I am an atheist, not as against organized religion as some but mostly against it, but give a huzzah to the work that religious leftists have done in South America and know that for them their religion was not something to the side and by the way, for instance. I am a leftist, anarchist by type; I think the burden of proof is on hierarchy, on power, on structure- not every single time and in every case, I will not sink (yes- sink, not drown- sorry) a ship by questioning a captain's every command, but in general rules/situations/whathave. Self-management, the encouragement of it, "slaves learn freedom best not in slavery but in freedom" to paraphrase Kant as quoted by Chomsky I think (and being extreme about things, and knowing that bad examples make worse law, etc)... - that's my general tendency, anyways. This is not the same as supporting anarchy, the total lack of any structure. I am generally optimistic about "people" and persons individually (to remember a distinction drawn between the law partners Clarence Darrow and Edgar Lee Masters, both famous- the latter wrote Spoon River Anthology which you should know if you don't by the way... the former was involved in defense in the Scopes Trial and the Leopold case e.g. ... of one it was said he loved humanity but couldn't stand his fellow humans, of the other... I forget which, which... this in a bio of Clarence Darrow btw... the other way 'bout...) and hope to be able to become moreso but ... erm. No. Edit: anarchic: a typical Eric sentence.