In any situation those that have power will not want to lose their power, hence societal change is always difficult, no matter what the situation is. ...
Well, that is the actual worry. It's not something absolutely horrifying as Lysenkoism, which was really literally totalitarian with a genuine totalit...
Oh, I'm a boring type. I think science is a method: the use of the scientific method. Philosophy and science? I've sometime even myself heard scientis...
Right. Of course, who here is saying that science is the only way to do anything, Kenosha Kid? Absolutely nobody. A literary novel can depict history ...
Ok, but then our insurance system and also pension system uses these corporations too. The non-human "legal person" owner if equity is a reality. Lot ...
The WHO acknowledges that the lab leak hypothesis is a possibility. Admitting that you were earlier wrong is a sign of strength in my view. This got C...
Btw, a consol bond is a perpetual bond without any maturity date. Hence they are considered equity rather than debt. Basically what is so wrong with e...
Starting from people studying the social sciences, which ought to use similar questioning, objectivity and try to refrain from subjectivity even if th...
The Swiss have high living standards too, yet their population is still growing. They don't have similar problems. Population growth is the normal way...
Have you read German philosophical texts from the 19th Century? Many of them were quite conservative/right wing and still extremely difficult to under...
As they saying goes, the most powerful mathematical language is where 0=1. How awesome to use it to prove anything! It used to be a joke, but I think ...
? That's not the most explanatory or easiest to understand answers that I've had read, Kenosha Kid. Yet isn't the problem when those that should use t...
That's the alarming issue here. There are enough smart people on the PF that at least someone ought to have understood it and be a firm believer in it...
Ok, conservative meaning he's for those old ideas about science from the age of Enlightenment. Got it. (Still Sokal was a leftist, similar to actually...
Think about the debt based monetary system of ours. Basically there has to be economic growth for the interest to be paid. Then think about the "pay-a...
Only that similar equivalent "Sokal hoaxes" have gone through very well, which just shows how adrift the whole field is. And it's telling that you des...
Well, Soviet-style central planning was even more destructive, but I do get your point. I've been hoping that someone would explain and basically defe...
So (if you still have the time to respond, or respond later) just what are you just exactly implying? More transfer payments in taxes? To whom are whe...
I've noticed this too: weather forecast have become really accurate. They don't make mistakes on what is going to happen in the near future. A seven-d...
:up: Thank you for your actual contribution. People listen to the Dutch. They are part of the smart guys in the room. That is a well thought answer, B...
Yeah, deal with the current disaster once they happen. That's the way it will happen. Yet smart people can anticipate those future disasters. You see,...
Since the "Only-Magma!" -guy has hopefully left us, here's a question for others. The natural reason for more (energy) production is population growth...
And the civilizations you are referring to? Seems to me the civilizations in history were far more fragile to collapse. I disagree. Population growth ...
1) I blame the media. The journalists pick up the most damning forecast (from a variety) and run with the worst possible early outcome. Some scientist...
There are obviously a multitude of ways to participate in politics and the democratic process, but usually the thing for many is voting. Wasn't the te...
Bernie and AOC have done their job well. But when the next elections come things will change...if you only vote for the Democrats, that is. And then w...
In the 1980's there were roughly 70 000 nuclear weapons in the World and in 1983 during a NATO exercise the Soviet Union was really fearing an America...
You accept the party when you just hope that the party would change it's course as an internal event. Or think that it's meaningless to vote for any o...
Interestingly this was already reported far earlier, even during the election. And it makes sense. Putin is a career spy and the former head of the FS...
Well, do you have an universal health care system that other western countries have? Or do you think Biden will give you basically free tertiary (univ...
At least you are an optimist. I wouldn't be so much. Americans have this strange idea of "changing the party from the inside". The revolutionary thing...
The utter inability to see fault in both parties is interesting, but very typical. As a foreigner, I think both parties are quite dubious here: first ...
So the history that Jefferson Davis was from the Democratic Party is totally unimportant here? It doesn't matter what a political party was for earlie...
That may be. A Crack-up Boom is surely a possibility that is happening just now. Doubling the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve IN ONE YEAR has to ...
Yes, but not umm...me. :yikes: I guess many political parties will say that they are doing Gods work. Although believing in “The laws of nature and na...
Well, sometime in the future this hole system based on debt might need drastic "restructuring". That might not be so nice. But then again, it wouldn't...
This is true. So far it has been the GOP that has felt this more. Yet both parties have had the ability to somehow cope with this when you look at the...
Or it's the polarization of politics in the US. The Republicans just look more insane for you. Here it should be good to take a few steps back a glanc...
This is the problem with idealists and radicals. Philosophers (or the philosophical types) are often idealists. They get carried so away with the ideo...
Political agendas, principles and objectives aren't there to be taken literally, but to show what the political party favors and will think to be impo...
Societies will function as they do. Don't think you can change them. We are living now through a time of a global pandemic. We got many vaccines in br...
Good question. Usually parties would have an official webpage where this information would be easy to find. At least the information, what the party s...
I understand your point, but just like with the discussion you have had with @"Xtrix" about fusion energy where your opinion is just "I'm not optimist...
Hence? A global approach that is the sum of the most important nation states, perhaps 20 or so of the largest energy producers, that in aggregate tack...
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