Hi @lexej ,
Welcome again. Before engaging in continued correspondence, as it is generally helpful to know more about where the other person is coming from, could you make an introductory post?
e.g. from Welcome to the Forum:
We’re curious to hear about you! As your first post we encourage you to open a post with the Introduction tag. It facilitates the discussion to know where you’re coming from and where you’re at – say hi, let us know how you came across actualism and what your interest is.
Also note the purpose of the forum:
This is a place set up to enable and facilitate the discussion of actualism, as presented on the Actual Freedom Trust website .
That is, although at times it is beneficial and/or relevant and/or pertinent to discuss something Richard wrote that isn’t strictly related to actualism, the purpose of the forum isn’t debating whether he is right or wrong about X or Y per se. The point of doing so is relevant only insofar as how it is relevant for you, i.e. for the reasons Richard just laid out very lucidly.
As such it doesn’t make sense to debate about what Richard wrote in 2004 without any context as to where your questions/points/issues are coming from.
Cheers,
Claudiu