Comments on: Compare and Contrast

By: John Kindley

John Kindley — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:34:36 +0000

In reply to Mark Kernich. Just one more for now(: I happened to watch last night The Proposition, which some critics have called the Australian Unforgiven. It's now one of my favorite movies. Both of the main characters, one a law man, the other a criminal, are highly admirable in their own way. The movie speaks to the purpose of the criminal justice system being about prevention rather than vengeance. Have you seen it?

By: Mark Kernich

Mark Kernich — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:34:15 +0000

Australia. I’ve been following your blog for a couple years. I am myself something a philosophical anarchist who practices criminal law (defence). I came across your blog while trawling the web at work for sites of interest to my own practice (a strange blend of professions, practices and philosophies as much of my professional life is involved with ‘therapeutic courts’ eg drug court). I can’t recall exactly how I found it, I suspect was linked on a blog roll of one of the bigger sites out there (before most of them got caught up in the new ‘filter’ that has been imposed on my workplace).

Many of your intellectual heroes are people I too admire, and that’s how you ended up on my ‘favorites’ list.

Any further questions? 😛

By: John Kindley

John Kindley — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:20:04 +0000

In reply to Mark Kernich. Good point about the "progress" we've made since the days of the Roman Empire making it likely that our collapse will be much swifter than the Romans'. We can only hope. What country are you from? How'd you find this obscure little blog?

By: Mark Kernich

Mark Kernich — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:11:16 +0000

Re the declining empire… I recently had to travel via the USA to get to your northern neighbor. That involved me spending a few hours in LA airport. Within minutes of clearing customs I had the feeling of entering a militarised society, shortly followed by the feeling that ‘this must be what it felt like in the dying days of the Roman Empire’. Funny to finally get back home and read this post of yours. For what it’s worth, I think the collapse these days will be much quicker than it was back then, the price of progress.

Re the Kindguards – nothing like a demonstration for a worthy cause to show us white middle class folk the real face of power (the pepper spray video). And yes, the system will go down kicking and scratching (and a lot worse) and drag a lot of us down with it when it finally collapses. Better get used to it.