Jamal

Which context? If you mean the transcendental deduction, where the applicability of the categories is proved and the transcendental unity of appercept...

Jamal + Adorno = Adorableno Dinner: Lebanese restaurant. Many small dishes, everything excellent. Belly full of hummus.

Because you took my comment out of the context of the conversation, I’d like to point out that it wasn’t a serious correction.

Thanks, I’m pretty sure now it’s where I am.

I’ll butt in here to note that John Gray, who has been criticizing the idea of progress for years and is probably much more pessimistic than I am, acc...

You’re on the Shoutbox team so you’re not allowed to leave.

I don’t know exactly what @"Antony Nickles" meant, but I can see a sense in which he’s right. Kant erased real human individuals from the picture in f...

Yep, that's in use in Scotland too so I suppose it's Gaelic. As in Ireland it’s always derogatory in English, and often it’s used to refer to any lowl...

So either I just need to upgrade my connection, or it’s the Russkies disabling local YouTube speed servers (or whatever it is they do). By the way, Ru...

Serious question now. Does anyone else find that any page with an embedded video in one of the posts takes a lot longer to load than other pages? I’m ...

You win this round.

Maybe you’re right. The question is, how do we differentiate between good changes and bad? By the way, if you’re open to corrections, I have one tip t...

I admit you raised a chuckle there. This should be “That works for me,” or “This works for me”.

Actually it was really just the first one. This is very American. I would more simply say “I promise to leave this topic,” or “I promise I’ll leave th...

At the risk of offending someone who is agreeing with me, I disagree with your corrections.

It looks like we’re debating it after all. Yes, we have standards, and they should be upheld. But (1) different standards apply in different contexts ...

I can see why you are calling it cynical—it looks like I’ve tried to sneak it through—but I think it’s a bit more substantial than that. In describing...

I disagree with you on this, and I don’t think your response meets my challenge, but I don’t think I want to debate it. I’ve got enough on my plate al...

But this is just prejudice. It's similar to the middlebrow British habit of "correcting" American spelling and grammar. The fact is that you cannot st...

Point taken, and I agree. I want to correct the view that there is an overarching general progress in history, like a magical power standing over soci...

It could be because when I see baseball in movies it's often from the 1920s or something.

A damning indictment of the very concept of non-American baseball. Well I don't mind. You can keep your baseball to yourself as far as I'm concerned, ...

I'm on the edge of my seat.

Typical Zizek. Looking at the context though, what I think he means is that if the better world is a dream rather than a realistic aim that is conscio...

I like that.

Sorry, critique is becoming a habit. Otherwise, I don't even know what the MLB is and should've known better than to get into a baseball debate.

Maybe that's a good example, I'm not sure. I'd rather give as examples extreme nationalism, fascism, Stalinism, etc.

I see a tension here, even a flat contradiction. It's implicit in the idea of high school level mistakes that they can be overcome with more training,...

I've just realized that I misinterpreted this. I thought you meant my claim that "I'm revealing how a particular myth is reproduced in discourse, mere...

I think it's Pinker :wink:

Many writers have thought it was significant. In the last round of short stories here I used em dashes for speech: (I also very carefully and with stu...

Well...ok.

It seems to me that atheists submit to authority in their thinking as much as religious people. The ideal atheist, maybe not so much, but then the ide...

Sorry to break it to you, but that's not an en dash, it's a hyphen. This is an en dash – as you can see it's longer than a hyphen, but not—I repeat no...

I have not made that claim. It's not that complicated or subtle, and if you really want to get clear on what I'm saying, I don't think it's too diffic...

According to the Wikipedia page on dashes there are four kinds, and that's before we even get to hyphens and minus-signs.

By the way, I think you can get the em dash with a certain key combination on most computers. Doesn't work on mine though. (I know I could configure i...

I'm happy for you. I only wish I could make the discovery again to repeat the feelings of joy and wonder. I'm hardly even exaggerating.

First paragraph. I've also emphasized it and expanded on it in later posts.

Obviously. I've said repeatedly that I'm revealing how a particular myth is reproduced in discourse, merely using one short passage from a famous auth...

Yes...well. My favourite is the em dash—standard in typography but unfortunately not standard on computer keyboards.

I take these comments to be equivalent to "Jamal, you are a weirdo." That's ok, I have faced that accusation since childhood. Back then it bothered me...

There are many counterexamples. Together they show that mastery of the conditions of life and moral improvement do not, as you claimed, “almost always...

Fair point. But at the same time I was referring back to the earlier meatballs, which were entirely my own. What you might say is that like some kind ...

I had a real man’s dinner of beef, potatoes, and beer.

The differences between us are clear to the trained eye. It’s true that we both talk bollocks, but our respective bollocks have different flavours and...

Well, nobody can accuse English of internal consistency.

Yes, I certainly felt I gained a deeper appreciation of reality when I spoke my first word, which was “meatballs”. Hitherto I had not grasped the conc...

Needless to say, you won’t be getting an invitation to my next one.

Touché. I will make one or possibly more points though. When I said “Actually I will make one point” I assumed you’d be able to see that what appear t...