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So now maybe you can actually answer the question, which I'll put as simply as possible: Do you think societal health is increasing or not? Why or why...

What say ye @"Shawn"?

So, if this is Shoutbox 2, should we just put all the pig stuff here?

Before we go further, I want to clear up a few points first as you seem to have gone off on an argument against your own projections or a generalised ...

It would be just as easy to go on YouTube and find a video of someone happy with their surgery or happy or unhappy with just about anything else. It's...

Well, I edited it to spoil your reply, so I did something worthwhile today...

You don't actually have to shout to yourself what's written in the Shoutbox. Any other issues, let us know. :up:

Dr Fau..ci <>Dr Fau..stus. I suppose you think there's nothing to see there...

Can you explain to me how any legislation is ever going to get passed seeing as anything the HFC don't want to veto will never get through the Democra...

Thanks for the reference! I agree in that it is only from an analysis of the social that a coherent concept of self can arise. I don’t see how we get ...

There is some truth in this, for sure.

I’m not sure how to respond to this. On the one hand I want to defend my thesis (I’m pretty sure I’m supposed to do that :smile: ). On the other hand ...

Let me try to relate this (clumsily) to my thesis via some quick thoughts concerning art vs entertainment. So, it’s easy to see how the structure of m...

Can relate to that. I've never owned a TV and don't do social media either.

No, I don't. How about you?

He's wrecking the Republicans. Is that not a good thing?

@"Wayfarer" Speaking of Marcuse, from "One Dimensional Man", which I'm currently reading, a salient quote I just came across: "If mass communications ...

It's an interesting line. Can you elaborate on what you mean a bit? It's might gel with some of my own ideas.

My subterfuge has failed. I thought I might drag you in but I fully understand you have more on your plate and the clarification is appreciated.

No, I've been thinking along these lines since my twenties, far before I had that position. And I'm presenting a critique which I hope amounts to a li...

Postmodernists tend to lose themselves in abstraction to the extent they end up writing a kind of convoluted fiction that's very difficult to apply to...

Yes, as I mentioned before, there’s always the danger of projecting our own psychologies onto the subject of analysis. I wouldn’t blame anyone for ign...

Uh, oh... OK, although part of what identities do is create needs and shape psyches. Treating symptoms or curing the disease? I don’t accept this. Hav...

The first one sounds a bit more promising than the second one. I don't, to be fair. I did spend a couple of years primarily as a financial speculator ...

I don’t think it’s so much a matter of a particular number but how identities organize and structure themselves in the self. And there are two aspects...

Yes you are, although what followed was so frighteningly realistic, I almost doubt myself.

Cars are nice. Do you like cars? Have you ever considered driving one off a cliff?

That's interesting. Can you tell me a bit more? Is this to do with identities of work or etc?

Oh, not a bother. It took a fairly good shot at it, almost uncomfortably so, especially considering how dense my text was in places. I suppose I shoul...

There's always a danger of projecting our own psychology into our theories, (although in this case the general thrust is not particularly original to ...

Possibly. But do you think this is what is happening in practice? Do you think people are becoming deeper, more thoughtful and more in touch with them...

The OP is kind of formally phrased because that's the way I like to write about this kind of stuff, but the purpose is as much to get general ideas/fe...

That is one of the things I am definitely saying, yes. I think @"unenlightened" said something similar in a recent thread that may partly be responsib...

I haven't read Fromm in years so I'm not sure but it's a Frankfurt-School type point, so quite possibly. I'll look into the logotherapy connection. Th...

Kind of. It's compatible with what I'm saying but it doesn't quite capture my thesis and I gave a better tl:dr in the second sentence. It would have b...

One way of approaching the concept of person is to follow a thread from personality to self to person, interweaving notions of narrative (language), s...

That I am. :up:

Wasn't it "Willows"? Or was that someone else?

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Ok, I feel better now. Phew...

No, that was a good one. Don't spoil my cremation! :halo:

My stories were not very impactful, so I hope to alleviate my pain by spreading it around. :up:

Sorry meant to send that by PM. :yikes: :lol:

I could vote down "Penelope" if that would help?

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And he didn't even ask nicely. It was like, "Hey serf, change my name". :sad:

Hey, your story "In the Way of the Burritos" was pretty cool too. Unforgettable, really. :up:

Thanks, meant to PM you about that actually. Happy to have you on board, particularly as you wrote what was probably my favourite story this time roun...

Thanks and well done! Really appreciate you stepping up for this. :clap: And Happy New Year to all our authors and readers!

No. It never did as far as I'm concerned.