frank

How could he see them under the bed if he was in the closet?

Regular bowel movements are essential to a healthy world.

:up:

They lost too. You've got a lot of history to catch up on.

He's from New Zealand, so he may not know that WW2 ended.

Oh, well that's just great!

You bring a book to our attention and the author turns out to be a Nazi schizo. We're entitled to hear you say you're not a freaking nazi sympathizer,...

So you're definitely not an anti-semite and you whole heatedly reject Nazism in all its forms. I knew it!

It's really simple to reject Nazism. Just do it!

Do you reject his bullshit or not?

I like grey up to a point. A little green and blue is nice, though

First if all, we need a flat out rejection of nazi bullshit from you. What is this?

Surrealists believed the dream state actually gets you closer to the nature of reality. They analyze the cosmic background radiation to try to see if ...

Oh, well that's just great.

It looks a tad greyish.

I'm all into the shift from post WW2 embedded liberalism to 80s neoliberalism. 70s stagflation was a critical ingredient. Hope you're doing well. Spri...

Politics, whether state or office, is about controlling the superficial, the appearance, the common sense narrative. At base, it's the mechanics of pr...

By way of an intensive bout of introspection, I have discovered that the universe is shaped like a doughnut.

That too.

'Happy' is often synonymous with 'satisfied.' Satisfaction is the death of hunger, curiosity, etc. The ultimate satisfaction is oblivion.

This was a hook used by Thatcherites. It was meant to help shift attitudes toward acceptance of privatization and the abandonment of protection for la...

What? The vast majority of the populations of Greek city states were slaves. Why would Rome be different?

I guess it evolved over time. Early Roman armies were owned and operated by aristocrats who made decisions for their own interests. So true. :grin:

Roman armies were funded by aristocrats.

Up vs down. No nuance required. A freaking border collie can do it. :cool:

True. It's better to remember the friendly ones though. Then when you get bitter about humanity, you can say, "oh yea, there was that guy..."

I don't know, it's been working for thousands of years. Why abandon it?

A friendly dutch person. I knew there must be some.

It doesn't look that way here. Both left and right are opposed to the status quo. Time for an epic adjustment.

Democracy is too easy to subvert, though. OTOH, neoliberal theorists are suspicious of democracy's power to thwart individual ambitions. They prefer g...

Yep. It's not like a refugee crisis or war. It's worse because of the shortage of resources when everyone else is also short.

It's another variant.

Or maybe both cultures are expressing something essential to their common root? That would facilitate communication. I've wondered why Plato believed ...

I don't think so. PBS Space Time devoted several episodes to explaining the holographic principle. It's mostly over my head, but he gets the main idea...

I see. Connected by the silk roads?

Why do you think it has a Greek origin?

'We both wanted to be seen. We didn't realize that when you see the other, you create the world.' --protagonist of Homunculus

In historical dramas, whether western or asian, poor people are humble around rich people. It's part of how heirarchy works. Is that what you mean?

What goes around, comes around. Like what?

who?

Morality. All relative. Arrogance is the sail on the boat. Unfurl it and you'll go far. The person who believes humility is inherently good will stay ...

It's all relative. Fake humility isn't worth much is it?

If a trans or gender fluid person is rich and powerful, people will adjust their language for them. The poor downtrodden get the regular.

Ok, I'll do some more reading.

You sir are as sleezy a hunk of scum as I've ever seen at the water's edge at low tide.

Thanks

He isn't doing anyhropology here. He's taking aim at the Tracticus, right?

I'm not enthusiastic about continuing this discussion. Thanks for your responses.

:up:

Right. So Witt wasn't talking about speech acts. He was talking about something in the range of things discussed in that SEP article.