Saw this earlier, btw. Really sad to look at how Seattle has changed from my childhood in the early 1980's. It was a really nice city back then. It te...
I nearly died last year. Happy about every day that I have lived after that. The real thing that would have sucked is that I have two young children a...
What you hear about is of a Judeo-Christian heritage from Christians. Perhaps some Finnish Bishop might talk about both being Abrahamic religions, but...
No. Just as Christians shouldn't be judged as Christian, but as individuals. My point is that the beliefs of a Muslim, by it's definition of a muslim ...
Giving labels to other people and then attacking the worst stereotypes of the followers of that "ism" is an easy method to circumvent actual discussio...
The US can live with a huge military industrial complex easily. It is not detrimental like it was to the Soviet Union: people aren't poor in the US be...
Not only remember, basically it's the same God, actually. Yet you seldom hear anyone referring to the fact that both Christianity and Islam are Abraha...
We should start thread on why Russians and those with Russian ancestry are huge bigots, about the detrimental effect they have on our tolerant Western...
When I'm driving, walking, doing some ordinary house work I do listen to these podcasts you refer to. This is because +1 hour debates or lectures do t...
Ilya, you seem to just love stereotypes, just like with the "Jews and Europeans" thread. Well, Americans have a long tradition in being bigots to each...
I think that there are many problem with idealist libertarianism, like with libertarians who are anarcho-capitalists. The 'level playing field' isn't ...
Lol. Indeed we Europeans can be confusing to Americans. Our right wing conservatives might seem not even to be RINOs, but some centrist Democrats if n...
Well, it goes to the narrative of how NATO enlargement is explained. Was it an example of American hegemonic expansionist imperialism or had it someth...
There you have it, it is blah blab blah. "Humans are a virus that is killing the planet" is a trendy sounding quasi-intellectual statement which peopl...
What do you mean by this? And how has Andorra exported it's trauma? Are they in this case? Just take South Korea and America. How many American see it...
Chomsky doesn't even hide this. As ????????????? pointed out, the definition of the West is quite vague and hence the question of it being shameful or...
Me neither. In fact it seems even the racists have let go of the idea of whites being so superior to Asians, which is telling (and amusing). Yet it fe...
Definitions like 'The West' are surely vague and can be discussed in many ways, but are still understandable. As we have these Western values of democ...
It doesn't entail that, but it does have a big effect on the discourse. The thing is that unlike with the effects of Leather working, where the topic ...
If we only could. The present day discourse goes against this. Because if you say that we are all equally guilty, equally innocent, you are actually s...
Thanks for the comments, people! Lousy me for this. Hope the answers to your comments make this more clear. This is part of it, Tiff. Now it's underst...
No offense taken. My point was that both things, patriotism and nationalism, are quite common phenomenon around the World. And are there 'innocent' co...
Do you think that poor, not well off 'do-gooders' are arrogant? I think that the arrogance here is about something else than 'doing good' to others. P...
Tell that to some Hindu nationalists or the North Koreans or practically anybody else. (Iranians are actually quite proud to be Aryans, btw.) Yep, eve...
Patriotism = people refer to something positive Nationalism = people refer to something negative Of course, the most simple line to be drawn is that l...
It goes to that. Now if we would say that a society, a group or lets say people in the PF value politeness, yes, people would understand that politene...
I really find these lists of Western/Non-Western or liberal/conservative values rather annoying. Because those promoting them typically have this hubr...
Don't assume that university graduates didn't fall for national socialism in Germany. College and university educated, students especially, fall very ...
Ah, the break up of the United Kingdom! People formerly know as 'the British', be ready to rip your clothes, hide yourself in a closet and sprinkle as...
First of all, if you consider colonization and globalization, your data ought to be a far more longer time than a period where there isn't anymore col...
It's no wonder if this is so. You see wealth has allways been distributed very unequally and the profits of globalization and empire building are even...
It's the typical argument that you can implement nearly everywhere where there is economic growth. Inequality decreases in a recession. If the stock m...
Nonsense. Enlightenment rules. No urgency here for Heidegger. Even Pierce and pragmatism would do (in my view), but it isn't really needed. The critiq...
Note that it isn't empty for a lot of people. Go to a foreign country and the people there will define you being from the country you have originated ...
The extreme materialist philosophy or point of view is quite naive and simply silly. The issue isn't at all that if you would consider something else ...
Of course they are, but the phenomenon that I mentioned is actually observed by sociologists. Unfortunately I can't remember now which studies to refe...
The problem is that the slavery/Jim Crow issue dominates the discourse even if the are things of the past. It's a convenient way emphasize the victimh...
Yes, there are good policies to be implemented. Naturally the policies do have also their negative aspects, like that the whole system does create apa...
This is actually one crucial issue. Here one of the most successful welfare policies has been right from the start the avoidance of concentrating subs...
Yet it isn't so simple. If there wasn't any difference between racial groups and being a welfare recipient or unemployed, it wouldn't matter. But the ...
That's the problem! Normative questions cannot be answered objectively. Yes, you can partly use some objective observations (that have been done using...
C.P. Snow, a chemist by profession, wrote a famous book called "Two Cultures" in 1959 where he argued that the intellectual life had divided to the sc...
Reducing povetry happens with creating prosperity. Yet usually what policies we are talking about when "reducing povetry" are welfare policies, wealth...
By the way (a bit off topic), to compare the US with anything else is challenging, but to compare an US state to separate countries does give a compar...
The fact is that the whole field of identity politics and multiculturalism simply veers the debate into issues about race, simply because it's all abo...
I like my own country. Things are quite fine, the only thing I would like is a bit more of the entrepreneurial spirit, some libertarian ethos and laws...
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