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Taking a closer look, the preschools mentioned in the OP are what Americans would call private schools. In the US, private schools could also provide ...

I started this thread because I was trying to understand why I'm seeing more overt expressions of sexism than I once did. I don't think it's anything ...

All well said. Imagine a piano and the person who plays it. Artist and medium are inextricable. Each resides in the foundation of what the other is. I...

Again, like the NRA.

OK. I think what you're saying is that since social engineering is already taking place in the schools, there's no reason we shouldn't add more. So le...

Per Jefferson, the point was to teach people to read so they can educate themselves prior to voting. Does public education end up shaping people for b...

Andy Warhol actually ate Campbell's soup everyday for lunch.

It has a reputation for hitting the nail on the head. I had that experience with it. I have ideas about how it works, but who cares?

None as far as I know. It works better as an approach than as a doctrine.

That's cool. I don't think we need Heidegger's insights to inform us that the concept of the self is dependent on its negation. A sense of ownership o...

What are your thoughts on that? I enjoyed your post.

Could you give an example? I think we have all sorts of expertise at logistics. I think the main flaw in central planning is that it usually requires ...

Central planning is essential for large scale projects like railroads and highways. It was also used for postal service and telecommunication. A monop...

I grew up beside a forest and then lived in a big city, then wandered a lot.

I'm sure during times when I was wildness-deprived, I would have agreed. I get my fill pretty regularly these days. Are you speaking out of hunger by ...

The eye only finds grey and brown in the woods cathedral. Only the mind can make a tree.

The atheist with sand-covered head is living as if she thinks she'll live forever.

Look at a random image from the Sistene Chapel ceiling while listening to Mozart's Requiem. Long live the baubles.

I don't have specific data on that. Quite a few, though. I did. I'm surprised you didn't get my memo. But the existentialist forecast was that the dis...

Maybe Satan is there because God needs him for the sake of the story. In Jungian psychology, the villain is the hero's shadow. Like with Batman and th...

That's also what Satan offered Eve and Jesus. Jesus rejects power and dies having been identified as an agent of chaos. Is that how you see Christiani...

Being a religious follower would only be inauthentic if it was done without any understanding or without finding any meaning in it. Atheism, on the ot...

I think because it represents the end of the story. If the mind dwells on it for too long, the beginnings of a new story will appear. Manifestations o...

If you like. It evolves naturally though, so we're just chasing words around here. The world after capitalism will also have to emerge naturally and o...

:up: I disagree. The religious follower adheres to God's commands. A humanist adheres to das Man for lack of any objective moral truth (or as a substi...

Exactly. That's why "archetype" is a good word for it. An archetype is not a single entity which contacts various people. Rather, various people with ...

It's impenetrability is seen in the long run. Whatever gains we make are overturned later on. Witness the present situation as the US is $20 trillion ...

Because of their influence, we can't pass laws to limit their influence.

That’s ok. I know you went to one of those race-neutral schools where they made you walk down the street in a black hoodie and the police showed up an...

I'm going to have to ask you to place the outdated Black Americana on the floor and slowly back your white ass up away from it. :blush: Just kidding. ...

It's not really a metaphysical issue. It's psychological. It's kind of like this: Think of a person who rarely eats what she wants. She eats what one ...

LOL. I wrote out this long thing to try to explain further about social engineering. Then I saw your next post. Yeah. Peace out.

I very clearly explained that my opposition is the use of public school for social engineering. That there may already be such engineering taking plac...

What specific measures should be taken to accomplish that? I guess you're less interested in someone else's experiences and views than in finding some...

I don't know who said that.

Stronger in the US than where?

In regard to the article about the Swedish school: "State curriculum urges teachers and principals to embrace their role as social engineers, requirin...

Interesting view.

I don't know what unenlightened meant by that. Do you? And I don't know what specific moves toward gender neutrality we're talking about. What moves? ...

Right. It's a non-issue. The fact that we talk about it probably reflects the desire to address real gender issues.

There are environments where women are frequently central to the home. In the case of my linebacker, it's his grandmother. He's not going to grow up t...

I agree with that. I think we're talking about different things. You're talking about transgenderism, I think. I was talking about a family format tha...

I think humans will burn all the fuel they can get their hands on. There's no run-away global warming in the forecast. There's a theory that the devel...

But that's an alternate reality. I think that introducing gender neutrality into schools would be icing spread on a shit cake from his point of view. ...

I think you're intentionally overstating. But why?

What would you picture as an alternative to capitalism? Not for now, but say 200 years from now? Petroleum and natural gas will be gone (per experts)....

Look to science fiction. Robots, virtual realities, cloning for organs, etc. One of the reasons the US was an innovation dynamo was that it attracted ...

The transistor took the place of vacuum tubes. Cmos and nmos took the place of transistors. There's no telling what will come next. :roll:

Would it affect his perspective on himself or society? He's also black and raised by his grandmother. His father is in prison. Don't worry, I'm just t...

Are you imagining gender-neutralized football? Probably could. I was just wondering how the issue of gender neutrality relates to him, if at all. Does...