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You made it this far. That's pretty good! You undoubtedly have made a positive impact on someone's life. And that's enough! I like to think of existen...

Is it derived from one's own mind? I'm not so sure. There are, for instance, existential Christians. From what I said before, since there is no true a...

Well... attack upon labor began as soon as the CIO had power and flexed it, but I'm biased. ADDON: Taft-Hartley Act is the first thing I think of. ADD...

I thought Harvey fielded the restaurant question fairly well. I'd point that person asking to the IWW as a realized place to go for restaurant organiz...

yup!

Oooo listening -- I'm glad he mentioned "experiences" as a thing that's being produced! Super exciting. The reason for inventions of superfluity is th...

Hell yeah. I'm glad to have you still along.

I'm glad he highlighted the disposable time quote -- goes back to communism is free time and nothing else. An interesting thing Harvey is highlighting...

I'll admit I didn't check the arithmetic yet. I feel like that's important, but not for a first reading. It'd be super interesting to try and parse th...

I feel like magical thinking is common, but I'm uncertain how to spot a spell, an enchantment, or an ideology abstractly. There's a sense in which poi...

21MAR23 ending paragraph is right before the large title here. (Also, looking at the number of pages ahead, this is about the halfway mark!)

Well, to judge from the wikipedia page, it can mean a lot of things! I like existential nihilism. A possible answer from that perspective to your ques...

Quote from 414 as I pick it back up to prep for class: More a side note, but there are a lot of parenthetical notes like this throughout the text. A 2...

I suppose I'm fine with disappointing the middle class tinkerers-from-afar, the policy wizards and focus group addicts. For one, if Marx is right, the...

Sure I'd say this is too narrow a scope. It's been somewhat overcome, for whom? Events from the New Deal to now validates Marx's description of Capita...

Morning thought on Marx -- One thing I've expressed in this thread and have always found frustrating is how Marxism is for the workers, and yet it is ...

Me, for having not posted.

My stumbling notes from where I left off last time at about 350 to... There's a part where Marx is trying to do the step-wise thing I just did above, ...

Hrm, hrm, hrm.... thinking more about slavery... The United States provides a pretty good example of capitalism + slavery. I'm looking at p 354, right...

Going through some of my highlights... This bit helps me think about productive/undproductive, because it shows how the laborer is simultaneously the ...

True. And while I'm saying there is no progress, my set-up doesn't make progress impossible -- only points out that the analysis is in the negative at...

Happens to me all the time. I'll return to a topic and find I have maybe 3 new thoughts and then back to the wondering part :D

I want to call this psychological type a paladin -- the paladin justifies the violence they inflict on the basis of the enjoyment of correcting an imb...

A morning thought -- slavery, parsed in the form of capital, is actually treating person's as capital, more or less. In a way they are living machines...

I think that's good! I get this mental picture that the pianist is, for whatever reason, an individual and so yeah, that's how I'd parse the music mak...

I'm tempted to double down, but it's more interesting to me to not. Let's say we don't want to violate others or self as a motive on pain of an incohe...

And could we not be motivated to kill? Could it not even be intelligible? "We had to drop the bomb on Hiroshima because..." is the phrase I have in mi...

Glad to find something we can debate. While progress in puzzle solving allows us to do, it's very much up to us what we do, what counts as a puzzle, a...

I'll take the position that there is no scientific progress. I don't see it as so obvious to call it progress, though I understand why people say ther...

No, just like -- an organization. Something which came out of it all. Networks of people who weren't in communication before now are. Something more s...

I'll attempt to defend my expressions as not-caricature. "Atheist evangelism", as a goal, was a phrase I heard in public speeches at least. Not shared...

I want to say its a popular unphilosophical reading :D -- but to be honest, I really don't know.

Theses on Feuerbach is still my favorite bit of Marx to reference in understanding him as a philosopher because of how direct the 11th thesis is: can'...

Fair. And I think New Atheism's decline is pretty well explained by your expression here: For the most part the people in leadership positions who wer...

So brave.

:up:

Oof.

Preach on. :)

I'm not sure. I'm a gnat watcher. Sometimes I turn into the gnats, too, I'm afraid. But the Thought of Man isn't something I've heard or seen yet.

So there's a weak emergence, but none of the experiences are the same. Even within the same person, because the physical structure is always changing....

I think with the dedicated atheists they were sort of evangelists for atheism. So the point would have been a kind of self-elimination, except there w...

As a general recipe: If that's wrong, then 10 years. At least I was able to pick a position. :D

Heh, I should have kept scrolling. Yup! Though I still like the whole movie experience. But I'm in home-body mode mostly now

While what I call triple-A films have sort of become meh, I have to say that film as a genre has actually exploded into so many different directions n...

I like the example. Makes perfect sense to me. So one way to parse the example would be to say there are two worlds, which can be represented by the s...

Cool. I understand. God makes sense to me from an anthropological perspective, as I said above -- while the specific claims of the various religions, ...

Thanks for laying this out, because it's giving me a "shard" of thought to start from. I have an anthropological bent when it comes to understanding G...

Yup. Though of the sorts that I've been critical of so far, he counts.

Oh wow! I didn't realize how close to home it was for you. For the next track, I felt this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfVmFkjsUtc&ab_channel...

:cool: I just finished that one. I'm looking for the next track.