Posted on 12/04/2005 4:34:51 PM PST by ChessExpert
Several years ago (1996-97), I was thinking about the term religious right. It seemed that there should be some contrasting term, but none came immediately to mind. So I had to make some up: agnostic right, atheist right, atheist left, etc. I had the benefit of a universitys library services at the time, so I asked for a count of the term religious right in American periodicals. The annual count was in the hundreds per year. Contrasting terms had a combined count of under twenty. Id only heard the term religious right as an attack term back then. This seemed to suggest that American periodicals, considered as an entity, didnt like the religious right, but had little problem with, for example, the atheist left.
Rather than view politics as being a one dimensional left-right continuum, Ive come to think in terms of a two-dimensional quadrant: religious right, atheist right, religious left, atheist left. I think that religious right and atheist left are dominant in terms of population, influence, and perhaps, intellectual consistency. Below are a few items that I associate with the terms left and right, and each of the four quadrants. I hope you see some merit in this post. This way of thinking about things works for me.
Left:
Socialist by any name:
Socialist, National Socialist (Nazi), Communist, Progressive, Liberal, etc.
Right:
Small Government
Limited by Law - Constitution
Limited by structure - checks & balances
Low taxes, low spending, little regulation
Religious right
Classical liberalism, modern conservatism
United States from founding to ?
Founding Fathers, Adam Smith
Self rule by a morale people
Recognized (attacked) by American periodicals about 500 times per year
Personal (free) charity, often through church
Faith in God
Atheist right
Libertarian
Ayn Rand, Some Freepers
Small population worldwide
Confuses Liberty with Libertine
Recognized (attacked) by American periodicals less than 10 times per year
Personal (free) charity
Faith in the individual
Atheist left
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), other communist nations.
Engels, Marx
Admires the French Revolution
Belief in benevolent dictatorship
Promises forced economic equality
Recognized (attacked) by American periodicals less than 10 times per year
Faith in Government
Religious left
Churches that Hilary would attend
Church and State joined, theocracy
France before the Revolution, Taliban, Islam
Belief in benevolent dictatorship
Recognized (attacked) by American periodicals less than 10 times per year
Government mandated charity
Faith in Government
Yes, yes, quadrant, quadrant - libertarian scales.
Now back to chess. In a moment of rationality, I looked around a year or two ago for some organization(s) to donate my old chess books to but found no real takers. I ended up selling some on ebay and I have the rest stacked up here soemwhere to remind me to do something with them. I have a neat little "Quotations from the Masters" from 190x (or thereabouts) and a first edition of Alekhine's Games signed by the man himself and a bunch of more-or-less mediocre books of various ages and descriptions. Anybody have a suggestion?
Here's the previous Fischer/Iceland thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1365918/posts
See :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communitarian
Ah MAN, I love Alekhine above all other gods. Should you care to donate to a real wood-pushing patzer, please consider the following charity; ME!
I had to go read the link you posted. So, I guess that explains the "It takes a Village" thing. But with the Hildabeast, everything she does or says is suspect.
Probably envy given how he "achieved" the title.
Signed books by Alekhine should only be donated to a source that is sure to treat them with the reverence that's due. If in a quandary, try ME!
I'm not the one with the signed Alekhine, that's senor Balrog666.
I've seen what happens when you donate to a library or a university who doesn't understand what you give them.
Signed books by Alekhine should only be donated to a source that is sure to treat them with the reverence that's due. If in a quandary, try ME!
kcar did ask first. I have second copy but it's in really awful shape. Anybody else you like, furball?
Those who said he was a besotted Nazi were far too extreme. Sure he could have been more gracious to our beloved Jose, but his wife was behind Nazi lines in France (where else?) when those anti-semetic essays were crafted. He was ghosted.
After the WWI internment, they all probably hated each other as well as teh Germans.
Even though I have a picture of Ayn Rand on my homepage, I'm definitely more of the classical liberal/modern conservative (modernist-conservative?) variety.
Send me a Freepmail and I will apportion the remaining good stuff out to all comers.
Out 'til tomorrow, balrog666
I have Alekhine's book. The "Think, Play, etc. like a grandmaster" series is supposed to be good. I have one, that I can't find right now. The other(s) is/are out of print. Otherwise I've got more than enough chess book laying around myself.
I suspect these guys have some formulaic set of variations they play in simulataneous exhibitions, so thye can make most of the first 15 moves mechanically. Maybe you took him off the beaten path, and he had to think, and that's what annoyed him.
He played 1. e4 on every board. There's little a 16 year old can offer that he hadn't seen thousands of times before. He was just irked because I didn't resign when he thought I should.
There were only two games that went beyond about 35 moves. On one Fischer had 4 pawns for a knight and a dominant king. It was instructive. In the other, it looked like a draw to me, but it was some club player against Fischer. Even though material was even, he won handily.
When I played Reshevsky he began f4, e4, d4, c4 on successive boards. I got an English and I wasn't ready and lost easily. He didn't care. Again what could a teenager offer against a seasoned pro? Someone actually drew him in that simul.
Capablanca used to say the endgame was what separated the men from the boys.
Damn, still can't give this stuff away.
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