Skeptic Project

Listening now. Talk about Neil starts around minute 34. Gets good at minute 39.

Yeah, they roasted VTV pretty good.

I don't see this ending well for him.

Methinks another bridge is about to be burned.

They mention he does nothing but sit on his ass all day as well. I remember he came to CS and hid behind his kids as an excuse as to why he doesn't work to support his family

Maybe because he knows democrats and republicans won't listen to him.

At the moment, I think Ron Paul's libertarianism has greater support than the Green Party.

They have hate for government in common, so it theoretically helps VTV gain supporters who are already dumb. There are also a lot of libertarians who could be considered anarchists. These people would readily support TVP.

I think a majority of the TVP supporters are anarchist.

The reason I say that is because they are against government, private property, and capitalism. By definition, I think TVP is an anarchist concept.

Maybe it's more anarcho-socialist than pure anarchy.

I don't get the impression that most Zeitgeisters have any strong political beliefs. A Zeitgeister wouldn't recognize an anarchist if Leon Czolgosz was pissing on his shoes.

They're in love with the idea of a computer-ruled utopia where government is unnecessary. To the extent Zeitgeisters are anti-government, it's because government is incompatible with the notion of their computer-controlled world, not because they hate government for any organic reason.

True, but does their vision of the world not represent an anarcho-socio civilization?

No. Their vision of the world is not coherent enough to fit in any ideological category, in my opinion. Ideological utopias have some sort of internal consistency. The Venus Project isn't even close to that.

Greens, Socialist Party, etc.

It isn't like the only three choices for political parties are Repub, Dem and Libertardian. There are lots more.

Again, we go back to the question of what's the point if the ideologies are completely at odds with each other? All you will do is seed conflict.

But this is a TEA PARTY.

Perhaps because it requires minimal effort for VTV. If it was a legit campaign, he may actually have to log hours of work.