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Ah - so that's the part you failed to/chose to misapprehend.
If you had actually read and considered what I actually said rather than just scanning for out-of-context quotes to colorably affirm your cherished preconceptions, you potentially would've grasped that I'm actually blaming the set of mechanisms and presumptions under which people cede authority to others, which authority is inevitably abused by the relatively small number of people who come to possess it.
Certainly those people deserve some blame as well, but they were never my focus, since, without the authority by which they carry out their abuses, they'd just be garden-variety noxious assholes.
In much the same way that without the authority that has defined it, implemented it and continued to protect it, capitalism could not exist.
The people are the actors and the systems are the tools, but the institutionalization of authority is the thing that makes it all possible. And that was and remains my point.
You are one of those people that get avoided at parties, aren't you?
The irony here is that people who say stuff like this are the most insufferable ones at parties. The type of guy who smugly butts into a conversation with some unoriginal insult and doesn't elaborate.
I love talking to people capable of a nuanced conversation whether I agree with them or not. They read the article, formed an opinion, and expressed their issue in an understandable way. What's not to like?
The fact of not having a particularly coherent argument and yet being irreversibly convinced of it's correctness.
I love talking to people capable of a nuanced conversation whether I agree with them or not too. This person is not appear to be capable.
Go ahead, read their comments again. For all the fluffy verbiage there is virtually no substance and on top of that? I don't think they know what they are trying to say and so use the shotgun approach to rhetoric in which you could probably interpret it however you want to. And if you can do that then you are left with nothing.
"I'm actually blaming the set of mechanism and presumptions..." but no no no it's the people. But everyone but no actually a "relatively small number of people" but no actually it's all of us because we let them have it through the institutionalization of authority but no it's not the system.
This sort of hand waving is fun if you are sufficiently inebriated at a dinner party and that's about it. But hey, if that's your thing...