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So you won’t say what is woke, but the anti-woke is a clear threat. Institutional freedoms? Like the wonderful judicial system that, used to be hated ...

Before DEI, most people that rose to their station did so by hard work. But only white men got to play that game. So the issue before DEI wasn’t that ...

No, and you keep proving my point by dodging. I’m anti-wokeness. But I also think resisting certain diversity/equity/inclusion initiatives was and rem...

So you didn’t even try to define it. You should ask yourself why you don’t think a definition of your position is necessary. Why would you not simply ...

Why not just: 1. Define woke. 2. Construct something new, propose good woke policy and practice 3. Self-reflect from the woke side of the equation and...

Former USSR and the USA folks are both more liberal thinking (even individualistic) than average Chinese folk, in wildly broad terms.

Yes, but if these motivations are unconscious, which is what you are saying, then aren’t we talking about ‘motivations’ now, and not the thing at hand...

Philosophy unteaches us this. Right? At least that is how the philosopher is born, when he sees through something that just a moment ago was solid and...

Although I don’t disagree we are drawn and pushed, I still think once in a while, we make a true choice, a fully responsible act. The very process of ...

Wisdom is always contained in a few words. Wisdom comes upon you quickly, and completely. Wisdom gets lost in a book or a chapter, and is more easily ...

The focus of the OP seems to be how one thought leads to a subsequent second thought. That is an association between two thoughts. But another type of...

Does this operation “beyond conscious intention” serve to select the matter one is active about (environment or trans or women’s rights), or does this...

“I think else thinks]” - praxis

Amen. :pray: Wait... is that a whiff of irony I detect, drowning in the woke gas? You are probably insulting Satanists, which isn’t very woke. Irony, ...

I agree. What is wrong about “woke” is calling it “woke”. People on the left are no more awake than people on the right. The loudest of both sides are...

I get your response and I agree with you. I am not blaming leaders for causing our problems. I am blaming them for capitalizing on them, attempting to...

Yes. I blame our leaders - in politics, in the media and in schools. And here in our discussions. Our leaders should be showing us how to respect diff...

You are right - I see your question now, and it’s a valid one. Here is why the ad is about wokeness. It’s not just an ad. It’s an ad for Bud Light, pr...

So you are saying that what I said is not analysis. But you haven’t given me any of your analysis either. You just said I conflated and collapsed some...

I still don’t know much about what you actually think of wokeism, anti-wokism, or many of the things I’ve said about these. You need to say what you t...

Ok. I agree. Identity politics makes caricatures of everyone. I hate it. Putting people in boxes and groups reduces whole human beings to much smaller...

That is the preachy part. Maybe they were not preaching in order to help trans people, but they were playing identity politics which, if you think abo...

Well I didn’t get it from anywhere - I just watched the ad for the first time this week. I heard about the ad at the time, but had no idea Kid Rock go...

How so? That’s dumb. And unobservant. I don’t really even know what MAGA stands for. I’ve been annoyed by wokeism since before the term was popularize...

Whether the religion and our God warp the mind is contingent upon your Theory of Everything, aka your perspective.

Same thing.

This is the precise fault line between woke and anti-woke. The woke see that identity politics and victimization of certain classes are everywhere and...

Can’t quite capture the essence of my words? ADDED: So is that a problem with the words, or with me the speaker, or is something vague about what the ...

Because you won’t talk about anything else. For fuck sake! :lol: I keep listing all of the other things language involves and you won’t talk about the...

I agree. Metaphysics is about what is. Throw out metaphysics, there is no point speaking about the world in any scientific way. And it seems straightf...

Neither do I see what you are saying. Language only involves interpreting utterances? How about more context for whatever you are trying to say. Langu...

Three things: Speaker Words (definitions, significations of..) Essences (reality, what the words are about, quiddity)

Every time you see “what” you point to an essence. “It just seems like a pointless field of study - trivial, redundant, not informative, not interesti...

It’s more like “what are dice?” - they come in pairs - each die is six-sided - each side has a number 1 through 6 represented on each side. - etc. Dic...

I don’t think that anti-essentialists think this is the case. Which is an odd way of interacting with the world.

No. I’m sure you’d rather hear Count’s answer.

I know. I had a longer post discussing that and took the interpreter (communicant) out. You don’t give me much time. Like here, why do you raise the i...

I would think it would be more precise to say, no one here is saying things don’t exist. The issue is how to say what each thing is, or, from where di...

I guess I used the wrong word. I generally don’t listen to anyone. By dogma I meant well-founded principles.

I don’t ignore that. I get it. I said “you don’t say how to use “cat” either, you just use it” and I knew what I was saying. I get that it makes Witt’...

I think that was supposed to be “sexual orientation.” Idk.

I get it. Totally disagree with you and Nietzsche. God is still just another thing in human society. For the vast vast majority of people, religion an...

:up: Appreciate the response. If we frame things more as rights, then, to me we are talking about how government and society can identify wrong-doers ...

Neither does anyone say how “catness” is used. You just use it. No one is saying it is easy to define the essence of cat. Not one is saying that it is...

I understand that. I think looking to the use only, over many uses, reveals what could be called an essence. You can ignore the word “essence”, use wo...

So Meaning is use. You find the word in a context. You gather up as many uses and contexts. From them you could distill an essence, a meaning of the w...

Like it’s a form floating in Plato world, or a substance emerging in Aristotle world? I said from the start it is hard to say. We are asking what it i...

I’d be happy to address that but you need to address a couple things I just said. I need to know how you think a bit more. We need to stay on some pat...

What is a pattern? Lines drawn distinguishing this from that, as this repeats and in a repeatable pattern. What links this to that to reveal some repe...

Come on people. We all know what essence is. It is hard to say, I’ll give you that. But come on. A definition points to an essence. A definition is an...