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Isaac proved he had the brawn. He's amazing.

For my next trick, I will persuade Isaac to copy-paste portions of Wendy Browns book "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism"

You guys are discussing an article on stagflation. I'm so proud.

You don't have JSTOR access, do you? I suspected not.

Try JSTOR. Stagflation --Its Cause and Cure Explaining why Keynesianism failed Abba Lerner says: "Missing was a microanalysis of why the market laws o...

It's a word usually used by European leftists, although some conservatives accept the label as a badge of honor or something.

Oh. Read up on the history of the stagflation of the 1970s, particularly in the UK where union gains were clearly unsustainable. There was a war on un...

That wasn't a moral condemnation, bub. I was noting a practicality.

For me, the best approach to understanding history is to shelve condemnation and blame and just focus on the culture and agendas on the scene at the t...

Right. If you have a work force that's empowered to increase wages, a free market will respond by increasing prices. All it takes is an oil shock and ...

I heard a song a long time ago about a "slow boat to China."

Yep. An important thing to remember about neoliberalism is that it wasn't created by an elite group. The opposite is true. The present global elite wa...

Your brain is a balloon being pulled along by an empty skateboard. It's always downhill until your wheels land in the bay. And now you're a balloon ti...

We're living through an event now that helps explain what happened in the 1970s. Note that Amazon just laid off 18000 workers. All of the big tech com...

It's a standard analysis of the stagflation of the 1970s.

Wow

Neoliberalism doesn't really come from Ayn Rand. The main originator was Hayek. If you're interested in labor unions, it's really worth looking at how...

True. But you've scooted from "Christianity makes people passive" to "it's a two edged sword." Climate change should do it.

Yeah, so I'll ignore you from on. :up:

Yeah, actually you did intend that.

Me? You're the one spitting on other people's experiences.

Yep

Yeah, your experiences of life are likewise some bullshit off the television, I'm sure.

It's in keeping with what a Korean guy told me about life there. Maybe the same is true in Indonesia.

Tyre Nichols was beaten to death by five police officers in Memphis, TN on January 10. All of the officers have been charged with second degree murder...

Yes.

I don't know whether you're open to it, though I suspect not. I don't see how choice is involved here. You're free to believe whatever you like. You c...

Because morality is fundamental to identity, I agree. But note that here, we're focusing on the way we're bound to think. If you were open to it, I co...

You're saying that knowledge requires judgement, and judgment requires freedom to choose a direction. The determinist would say that though the judge ...

Why couldn't you know what you did and why you did it? Determinism just means there was always a 100% chance you would do x, realize y, etc. Look at y...

Christianity is a platform for a multitude of outlooks. One of my favorites is the kind that Abraham Lincoln grew up with. It dictated that every pers...

How does determinism make it meaningless to learn? It just means that you were always going to learn x at time y.

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.

I'm glad to hear that. :up: True. I used to live in Ohio and I was enchanted by Lake Erie. I would so move to Australia if I had dual citizenship. I l...

Do they involve cheese?

It's kind of unfortunate that you travel all the way to North America to visit Wisconsin. :confused:

There might be something wrong with you.

It's winter. We'll start back up in the spring.

Man on the Moon was pretty good.

The Shining Hero (with Jet Li) Young Frankenstein Apocalypse Now Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind It Follows Pando...

Telescopes and moon landings are engineering feats and it's a pet peeve of mine to assign their victories entirely to scientific knowledge. It's doesn...

Yes. My point was just that since it's incomplete, the claim you're making isn't really about science. It's a philosophical bias that's common during ...

We might be in a black hole. Physics isn't slightly incomplete. It's very incomplete. Physics doesn't indicate any particular ontology. Plato would sa...

Notice that in your previous comment, you added the caveat that our theories may have to be revised. Physics is in such a state that we really don't k...

Is it possible that mass shootings will become so mundane that a guy can't really make a name for himself that way, so they become less common?

"Extra mental" would be anything that's beyond mental. It's an idea, not something you witness with your eyeballs.

I just meant "not mental stuff." I think your worldview is the basis for your belief that the world existed before there was anything mental.

I don't think the glimmer of the extra-mental is seen anywhere. It's part of the structure of our worldview that we look out at a non-mental world. A ...

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