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Valiant effort, but even that explanation does not escape the Trilemma. You just land on the foundational assumption that God and being are one and th...

Pseudonym has little scientific ground to stand on here. Here are some of the major studies evaluating the impact of diet on the environment. 1) Lucas...

The reason for mentioning Einstein is not to compare him to Marx, but to show Marx's influence on other major intellectuals.

There are so many false and ridiculous statements here, one hardly knows where to start. If you bother to look at this thing called evidence (much of ...

So the capitalist food industry is suddenly a 3.5-billion year system? The rise of predation itself is about 600 million years old. By the way we are ...

The general conclusion on the impact of veganism on the environment has been this: it would have some important benefits, in the sense that it would l...

My pomposity pales in comparison to your bravado.

Great answer. And I think it closely approximates my thinking on the issue as well: the Trilemma may have some validity, but we can still reach import...

I don't know how much attention you were paying in your ecology classes, but it looks like you missed a few important things. Mouthing off about your ...

Like I said, this thread went down the toilet a long time ago. I'm talking about beyond this thread, when this issue comes up again in your life. I th...

There are two seaparate but related questions here. 1) Is the Trilemma meaningful or correct? 2) If it is meaningful or correct, then is that bad , go...

But you can always question the discovery process behind the foundation. Why this or that decision? The foundation then needs to be reconsidered all o...

I don't actually understand how anything you've written in this post helps us move beyond the Trilemma. Your attitude here boils down to recognizing t...

But people reject scientific evidence quite often when the rejection helps to justify their lifestyles. Exhibit A: climate change. Of course there wil...

Settling on a foundational assumption, with no further justification, is very arbitrary. That's the sense in which it's unsatisfying, or 'not final.' ...

I'm going to violate my earlier self-imposed ban on this thread. I wanted to make some general comments to chatterbears. As I said before, I'm also a ...

I myself don't have a sense of that finality, no. I suppose if I did I would not have bothered asking about the Trilemma. Having a foundational assump...

I agree with your analysis. Humanity as a whole is facing many deep challenges and it's not entirely clear that we can solve all of them. Yes we can c...

I dispute this, probably because I have different standards for what can constitute a crisis than you do. The global economy is not in an immediate cr...

You may be interested to know that many "serious thinkers," like Einstein himself, were socialists who were very much influenced by Marx. The labor th...

Even if you lump Marx together with the engineers and scientists, like astronomers and architects, it would not affect my claim. Einstein himself, per...

Umm off the top of my head... 1) Marx was the major ideological figure of the Russian Revolution, the Chinese Civil War, and the Cuban Revolution, to ...

The title of this thread is misleading. The municipal government of Trier, Marx's birth city, accepted the gift from China. The German federal governm...

Full disclosure upfront: I am a proud vegan, so clearly I am biased to one side in this debate. Second disclosure: this is the only post I will ever w...