Don't take it to personally, it was as much me wanting to make a point about current discourse more generally, than criticising anyone in particular. ...
What has changed is that we feel less secure in our ideals now. And additionally the challenge to the establishment isn't coming from the left this ti...
Here is how I think this plays out. Russia does want to dissolve the EU and is actively supporting various people in our societies to further their go...
I object to the framing that anyone who wants to get rid of the EU is one the side of Putin. The fact that Putin or Trump happen to want a similar thi...
I don't think a lot of them are doing that great to be honest. And those that are doing fine, have other supra-national organisations or agreements, l...
I don't disagree generally, but it's maybe a bit simplistic to just do away with the EU. There's some things that probably are to our benefit, like th...
Ok I agree that it would be difficult to find a good formula, but it's not as if nation states have more sovereignty by remaining subservient to an un...
Things change. Percentage of world GDP goes down, debts go up... the US was already in the process of losing its position of global hegemon. At some p...
The important thing to realise is that the Commission has the initiative for legislation. Before things get to Parliament and the Council of leaders, ...
Sure, it needs to be reformed ideally. But maybe it can't be reformed because of the forces that resist that or lack of consensus, and then it will pr...
That's probably true, but that doesn't make it any less of a problem. Bureaucracy, especially because of its lack of accountability, tends to grow ove...
Immigration-policy had been a problem, but it's not only that right. There are major structural and organisational problem too. The decision process i...
The union was successful in preventing intra-European war, and that was a fine idea at the time, but its disfunctions and those of liberalism become c...
There certainly is evidence that the religious have more children. But sure, it's one of those things that is very difficult to isolate from other fac...
I think you are missing that genderroles were part of a culture that got us to where we are now. And that every modern society where they are being er...
It think this runs a lot deeper ideologically than people think. For a number of reasons that may be a bit much to expand on here, liberalism is wanin...
I probably agree, though I'm not sure what you exactly mean with 'ideal' or 'idealizing'. I think there's a directional or agentic component to it, bu...
Ok I've read you first post now, and I think I understand it better now. If you're asking for philosophers who might have something relevant to say he...
They are not illogical because they stem from feelings... feelings just are and they can direct you in different conflicting directions, but are not i...
The issue only arises if you put language first, as something properly basic. We have experiences of the world, feeling and intuitions etc that are pr...
Historically in most mythologies around the world Chaos (Nun,Tiamat, etc) seem to have came before order (Logos, Maat, dharma etc). As sedentary civil...
I don't think we disagree either, it's just difficult to speak about. Language fails to some extend, hence that what can be named is not etc... About ...
I wouldn't say the Tao is above or better than human conceptualisation of it in a directly valuative sense, but prior ontologically... the human world...
UFC has certainly been on the rise the past couple of years. I don't know if we'd see a show where actual lifes are put on the line because human life...
That's presumably exactly what will happen over time... gradually from one generation to the next. They are a reflection of the world that has created...
Isn't one of the first things the Dao de jing tells us that 'the Dao that can be named is not the real or eternal Dao', essentially indicating that lo...
Opium for the people... crowd control. We might take that as something unequivocally bad, like Marx for instance... or as something that is a part of ...
Yes the greening-effect of CO2 by itself is real enough, but it doesn't seem like it will compensate for the other negative effects of climate change,...
Yes this is I think one of the most underestimated risks we face. People seems largely uninformed on this particular issue and kindof assume we stand ...
What failure are you pointing to exactly? Aren't they generally a bit conservative in their estimates in that they don't really account for the comple...
It's not only about the ability to support life in a general sense, and it's not only about global warming. It's the rate of change that will cause a ...
Yes some countries rely on imports for a lot of their needs already, and it is hard to see how some places would still be viable for agriculture if we...
It is serious, but I can see solutions to that... there's ways to adapt and produce even more, in more resilient and sustainable ways. Yes as long as ...
I'm curious how you came to that conclusion? It seems to there's to much uncertainty of what all the consequence could to be to make such definite sta...
Yes by and large, but i don't think they come to these convictions by reasoning or considering evidence. This is probably way beyond the scope of this...
I generally agree, but not for moral beliefs because those are not or at least not easily verifiable with evidence. How many people do actually change...
No, I think a lot will change given the physical challenges, how that exactly will look like I wouldn't know... But I do think these changes will inev...
No ideally not, but I'm just not convinced that the current way of doing things will work out in the long run, if you project that forward say a coupl...
The noble lie maybe doesn't work anymore, after the 'dead of God'. But the need religion fulfilled before the dead of God presumably hasn't gone away....
These numbers maybe are a bit surprising, not for south and east-central Europe, but certainly for North and Western Europe where I'm from. Very rarel...
This was very funny, especially the dry serious way you conveyed it. I would say if it weren't for Plato rethorics would be considered the 'natural' w...
Well in Europe that's probably more the case than in the US. Most non-muslim Europeans are secular nowadays. There have been concerted efforts to do a...
Yes I agree, that's why I've always thought this whole free speech debate we had recently was a bit of a red herring. The idea that we are these auton...
Maybe you can't. Religion and myth is build on a certain non-literal and wholistic understanding of the world, where the values and meaning naturally ...
But the societies we are a part of aren't recognized as being an end in themselves, they are just there to fulfil the desires of it's members. And may...
Maybe because meaningful is only really meaningful if it transcends mere individual preferences, because it plays a part in a larger whole... that wou...
Yes ok you were making another point indeed, namely that improving welfare would be hindered by not also making the mitigation efforts. My point was t...
Aren't you essentially making the same point here, that resolving our problems (growth and poverty reduction etc) makes the problem worse (cause more ...
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