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Probably, but we were talking about the options for creating international solidarity.

He was talking about international solidarity.

The Chilean thing was the US.

I agree that the changes you observe all have causes, I just think that's apriori knowledge. If we actually knew the causes of all the changes we see,...

But it seems to me that leftists didn't abandon labor, both labor and the left were just beaten into the ground by the 1980s and 90s. Obliterated.

Cool. I've only been through the pan handle on the way to somewhere else. Never stopped to look around.

How did that happen? The destruction of labor unions made it so leftists didn't have any way to unify them. If leftists have no power base, what are t...

:up: Well said.

Yes. I was wondering if there is some way past that, but I think it would require a global government to ironically limit the ill effects of globaliza...

I don't think we learn through observation that every change has a cause. We assume it. It's the Law if Explanation per Schopenhauer, and a way out of...

@"Xtrix" From What is Metaphysics: "Conclusion. Granted that the question of being-as-such is the overarching question of metaphysics, the question of...

:up:

That's what Hegel said.

I think you probably just peed on it.

Out of the night that covers me Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of prax...

Because of a belief that the truth is beyond words?

Thank you! I've been trying to put the facts together into a coherent picture for a while now. So why did return on investment decline? Because wages ...

It's ok. I'm better now.

@"praxis" https://youtu.be/EuJzSTNDUGI

I need you to stop harassing me because it's hurting my feelings.

Dopamine is why the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.

Your physics is a little out of date. You need more PBS Spacetime. https://youtu.be/chsLw2siRW0

A little philosophy in biology: Per Daniel Lieberman in The Molecule of More, the reason heaven is identified as a place of eternal bliss has to do wi...

Aha!

But didn't Heidegger do a lecture on Parmenides? He must have known his reasoning. If Parmenides' reasons weren't persuasive enough, Zeno slam dunked ...

But you start by saying he saw no difference between Becoming and Being, then you say he derived one from the other (as Hegel did.). Is that a contrad...

Maybe you could explain what the structure of temporality has to do with contemplating Nothing? Seems like that would be more about Becoming than Bein...

I'm not sure why you call attention to this since that's made extremely explicit in that essay. :chin:

But I wonder how much of that is bureaucracy and paying CEOs. I think the whole thing needs to be overhauled. Can you explain the stagflation of the 1...

Wait, you signified otherwise before, about people paying prices for their sins. Gyp!

You're in Texas? Wow!

Neoliberalism put those institutions at the center of the world's economy. Hey, you didn't explain what caused the Great Depression. Did you move to t...

I think most of that spending was an attempt to keep financial institutions from imploding. Big fat imploders.

In "What is Metaphysics" he says it's what we experience when we contemplate the void. I guess it's a matter of which "Being" we're talking about.

Do you take this dialogue as a warning against complete, self-contained systems of thought?

And so labor, which had become very effective and powerful in the UK and the US was left with nothing. Biebricher spends a chapter explaining the comp...

I have difficulty following your posts. I probably just need to study a little more.

This comment suggests you have some ideas about what caused the Great Depression. What dastardly deeds were done? What was the failing? I know what Ma...

Thanks! Informative post.

The New Deal was supposed to push the economy out of depression so someone could actually accumulate wealth. It wasn't socialism.

You may be right. The delta variant wave is calming down here. I am seeing a lot of unboostered people getting sick, but so far, not very sick.

So let's back up and see the problem the Forms are solving for us: Zeno says plurality is flawed because it means we have things that are like and unl...

:up: Globalization allowed liberalism to be disembedded. It was a tool for undermining labor.

You'll figure it out eventually. Read the Harvey book.

I was explaining why the One and it's related issues are familiar to me. I think this dialogue is about challenging the concept of the Forms. Do you w...

You're just making this up as you go. :lol:

Sounds good.

Yes. He shows how an electorate can be used like a tool in the right circumstances. He offers a really good way to see how the American people are in ...

It's really not, and a fair amount of the argumentation seems silly to me. I keep looking for what I'm missing. The idea of the One is something I kin...

Maybe for the region or something? Not in the world.