Jamal

I assume you mean the mangal and not the Weber. I can mount a point-by-point defence but I can’t be bothered right now. Suffice it to say they would n...

That makes two of us, comrades in ignorance.

I’ve been wondering… Do you think it’s common for serious thinkers to misinterpret Marx as advocating the rejection of philosophy—as if he’s saying “t...

Right now I can’t escape from this viewpoint, even though it has a lot of the Progress narrative about it that I’ve been criticizing. Adorno is saying...

I think you mentioned it. It looks nice but I have gone back to basics and now only cook on a Russian mangal with wood. https://fornaks.ru/upload/iblo...

The last few winters in Denia I’ve seen mountains of rotting oranges, so there are in fact many Valencian oranges in Spain that haven’t been bought by...

Life is a rich tapestry ND, and a meatball is a meatball.

Ok cool, I’m learning. The Yemenis of New York are rude and don’t know how to make a good sandwich, but they have hearts of gold. :up:

The America of my imagination is clearly an unreliable approximation of the real thing.

You gotta roll with it, like I'm doing. :grin:

I like that. I also like, but cannot use in the UK without seeming rude, the way of ordering in restaurants and cafés like “gimme a club sandwich”. In...

This is probably kind of close to blasphemy from a Muslim point of view. Which authorities? Some Muslims might follow religious leaders, but for the v...

I don’t want to argue now against increased mastery, but can you explain why you think it coincides with moral improvement? Sure, I think of humans li...

Same here, even though I’d read it before.

Yes, that’s exactly the problem I have with him. His Enlightenment doesn’t have much of the spirit of the Enlightenment. Edit: or maybe it’s better to...

By the way I was able to see your bodega sandwich. Looks tasty. What was in it aside from lettuce? Looks like melted cheese.

I enjoyed reading your overview of the status and history of progress, not least the way it ends triumphantly with some powerful poetry.

Surely “torta”, which is related to “tart”, is something to do with cakes.

Nicely put, and I agree. I just want to add for anyone who doesn’t know that in the sentence before “opium of the people,” Marx says that religion is ...

Absolutely. I don’t. This discussion is not about the book.

Great questions that I hope to respond to tomorrow :smile:

When I was growing up I was a big fan of Jacob Bronowski, scientist, TV science communicator and documentary maker. He was very much on the side of En...

When I get an itch and it’s awkward to reach at the time, I wait for it to go away. If it doesn’t, I feel some respect and admiration for the itch. I’...

8 months ago you attacked my ham, egg, and quail’s egg mayo sandwich because you thought I meant the eggs were scrambled. Now, you still can’t get it ...

This was my favourite bit.

I like it when they make my sandwich after I’ve eaten it.

To the advanced conditions prevalent at Harvard?

Wonderful. Jamal 1 Red Square

Same. Can you fax it to me?

Eager to see your bodega sandwich I avidly clicked on the link, only to get a 403 error (forbidden) and "The request could not be satisfied". I assume...

Good point.

You've got to the heart of my post, which I appreciate. But I disagree. It isn't that conditions were worse, otherwise he wouldn’t have described pres...

:sparkle: I enjoyed the hint of magical realism introduced with the raven’s caw.

I see now that you interpret “sandwich people,” and probably “ice cream man” and “egg man,” on the model of “gingerbread man.” The difference is that ...

But his use of “primitive” to describe those conditions is the clue to where he’s coming from. Of course he is acknowledging that those conditions exi...

I very much agree. Maybe I’ll say something intelligent about it tomorrow.

That’s a fascinating angle. I can certainly see how the settler colonialism in Africa and India, with its “civilizing” mission, was part of the Progre...

:rofl: That’s exactly how I imagined you.

Now look ND, before you judge me remember I’m from the UK, where as young lads and lassies we develop an affection for foods that others in the world ...

I love cornershop sandwiches, especially when they’re a bit old and soggy. They have a special something, impossible to recreate at home or by the fin...

Shoutbox coworkers share knowledge freely.

In my world, a bodega is a wine cellar. Never noticed if they sold sandwiches.

Yes, the “othering” that @"unenlightened" mentioned is directed towards whoever is not in the West and not in the present.

Oh my bicycles are always ready to go.

You can’t work in the Shoutbox if you can’t handle the truth. :cool:

I’ve heard that mentioned by Americans, without really knowing what it was. Thanks.

Disagree! https://www.news-medical.net/health/Is-Breakfast-the-Most-Important-Meal-of-the-Day.aspx I sometimes skip breakfast, so I’m biased.

Sam’s Club: “an American chain of membership-only retail warehouse clubs owned and operated by Walmart Inc., founded in 1983 and named after Walmart f...

Yes, I was saying pretty much the same thing last week: Otherwise, I do agree that the pervasive sense that everything is getting worse obscures some ...

And thus, in a sense, beyond Nietzsche. But a nice point.