Wikipedia explains the word pleonexia like this:
Pleonexia, sometimes called pleonexy, originating from the Greek πλεονεξία, is a philosophical concept which roughly corresponds to greed, covetousness, or avarice, and is strictly defined as “the insatiable desire to have what rightfully belongs to others.”
A surfeit of pleonexia is the cause of most suffering in our society.
Because of course Spud’s insistence that he should have everything of everyone elses’ is different. See?
And yes, he does so insist. Owning something is the ability to dispose of it, use it, as one wishes. He wishes to use, dispose, of everything owned by everyone else.
So. It’s wrong for me to want what others have.
But it’s right for them to want what I have.
Oddly enough, I believe exactly the opposite!!!
The idea that the Courageous State should have what rightly belongs to the people is indeed the cause of much of the world’s suffering.
There’s absolutely no justification at all for a man railing against the undertaxed “rich” when he’s a single occupant of a house that has 4 bedrooms and 2 public rooms.
Fvck off you unspeakable cvnt.
Sorry bravefart but he’s not rich – these rooms are essential for his important work. He needs an office obvs, a room to sleep and wake up in with thoughts of how to change the world, a thinking room, and a room for his train set to clear his mind. The kitchen contains an ever dwindling selection of pies and biscuits.
Any less and he couldn’t fulfill his destiny as fat controller
Pleonexia, sometimes called Socialism…etc. etc.
I don’t see a problem with wanting stuff if you are prepared to work for it. Many people have become prosperous by running a successful business. The money that they made was handed over willingly by people who got something useful in return. There are businesses that have done rather well out of farming government subsidies supporting green crap, paid with money extracted from ordinary people’s pockets without their consent. Is that maybe what he is referring to?
No doubt there will be a vigorous debate about this on his blog.
Martin near the M25
Genuine ROFL! Brilliant
Interestingly he has unwittingly (or his lickspittle commentator ‘Pilgrim Slight Return’ – I am never 100% sure he isn’t a parody – has) in that the question is ‘what are people entitled to?’ I’d argue the entitlements should be relatively minimal and the problem has been for the better part of a century the state has tried to be the ever more omnipotent ‘benefactor’ – pretty much all of the issues in society stem from that which is why the most likely solution to many of our problems is to radically cut the state back.
It’s why the likes of Murphy may very well lose the right to vote, or even to exist. When you have a problem with parasites it usually involves their elimination and without radical action to remove left wing politics and the areas that foster it, the country is doomed.
@Stonyground
Indeed, there’s nothing wrong with wanting stuff but the point I think our host is making is it’s the 10th Commandment stuff that is the problem. “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s etc…”
I’d be perfectly happy if some cunt didn’t covet the (worthless) stuff in my garage and kick the door down to discover it was worthless.
So, he’s as greedy as the rest of us.
He’s just not as good at it as the rest of us.
And that’s his virtue?
‘Owning something is the ability to dispose of it, use it, as one wishes.’
So, we don’t own our kidneys.