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Yes, I understand the infrequency and inefficiency of today's public transit. I also think AI trains might be the best model, not AI cars. Imagine if ...

You said here: Man, after a long day, I wouldn't mind just sitting and letting the local transit take me to my location with ease and not having to de...

Just more frequent trains. And yes, your objection represents the common view now. Intractable. At the end of the day if Trump gets elected it’s only ...

Yes, Europe definitely has a better transportation system due to the population density, smaller areas/ closer cities, smaller space for automobiles, ...

Yep, add it to the (growing) list. Do not take it as "exhaust"ive (pun intended).

Schopenhauer. Nietzsche tried to turn his one-time teacher on his head (Will-to-live becomes Will-to-power).. Compassion and asceticism become "Master...

I mean, that whole paragraph provides great examples of the ways that humans uniquely suffer.

I'm sure @"Tom Storm" can present his interpretation, but it seems that with the added faculties in humans, there is more heightened awareness and an ...

This is true.

Imagine this for almost any technology. Disbelief. A car or airplane to someone in 1789 might have seemed comically removed from reality, no? But plea...

I guess think of parking lots in cities. Lot of space for that. Perhaps the situation was the same for horse and buggy. More trains might need space u...

The good points are known. They make things flexible. How much of the car industry and ancillary industries insulated itself from any substantial chan...

https://www.vox.com/2015/8/10/9118199/public-transportation-subway-buses More analysis of the situation.

But wouldn't it be great if these cars were just showpieces and not the norm. Yes, the "freedom". Wave the flag, feel the gear shift (if one is inclin...

Ha, there are a lot one can choose from. I'll allow it :razz:.

The old English cars.. Rolls Royce being the standard. Jaguars etc.

Well you don't have to feel too bad with your gas car purchase. This is where I must give the obligatory response to electric cars: "The cobalt and ot...

Yeah, I mean, as I said I get that cars aren't going any time soon. It would take a change in how we allocate money. Who do you think contracts and pa...

And don't forget the need for all trucks related to things for construction.. Moving materials for housing, concrete, gravel, lumber, etc. The only th...

Interesting: https://medium.com/modern-city/how-the-united-states-ended-up-with-no-high-speed-rail-476c6209ce16 @"BC" might have some ideas here.

@"L'éléphant" @"Mark Nyquist" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IxTyGbAfNU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CGUwNzlXyg

It's too big to fail. The whole world from small town to largest city, from oil rigs to gas stations. From car dealerships and banks to local mechanic...

:up: But the question is then, what are we to do now?

Ah got it. Yes, loans for all. Cars for all. Shit for all.

Care to elaborate?

I believe it is, yes.

And I think Zapffe lays out a wide set of them in this model here:

I think you are WAAAY oversimplifying and too easily dismissing Ligotti here, which is a shame. It's also hard here because you don't get the whole ex...

Mainlander, and the Gnostics would dispute this metaphysical claim.

I'd like to also conjure, @"BC" and @"Tom Storm" and to wax brightly in the dim night of the black Locrian stage of madness. After reading these passa...

Meant to include @"Wayfarer", cause why not! We can argue the "redemption" of the nihilist (Wayfarer's phrasing, which to me seems biased), versus Bud...

@"Ciceronianus"

Zombification As adumbrated above, Zapffe arrived at two central determinations regarding humanity’s “biological predicament.” The first was that cons...

He does have a way with words and cutting turn of phrase!

You must read Ligotti's optimistic interlocutor with a heavy dose of sarcasm of course.

No doubt, imperial ambition was part-and-parcel of the British (and French) Empire's way of dominating the world (prior to WW2 basically). You control...

I think you answered your own question. Britain didn't want it to be their issue.

I'd be for a Native American state that is completely independent and not just reservations. If you remember, the Middle East was largely just distric...

Why is that pertinent?

Well, being that there was never going to be some peaceful negotiation from the start, this seemed to be inevitable being the interest of the two grou...

I don't know what you mean. The solution for Arabs was no Jewish state, period. Clearly, that wasn't a solution for Jews. So that outcome was rejected...

Sure we can go back even to 1937's Peele Commission recommendation which would have made Israel a tiny enclave near the Galilee.. The Arab neighbors, ...

So what do you think that implies? Just the dialectic nature of philosophy to synthesize various previous POVs?

You might even have a point here. But keep in mind several things: 1) The conflict has been going on since 1947, with the first move being the Arab re...

:lol: Thanks for the visuals on what NOT to do. But I think we even know very popular websites that are surprisingly primitive (not in the good "clean...

Yeah I was trying to be cute by using “destructive”. Aggressive is a good one too. But destructive is illustrative because it’s often the antonym for ...

I’ve been on this forum and the one before it for a long time. I am very familiar with what you what you describe. What would you like me to say? Some...

I just want to say, a lot of the reason this place is great isn't necessarily the users (though there are some with that combination of thoughtful, re...

Well, certainly having children can’t help the situation and would represent a cognitive dissonance in belief and practice because of convenience, pre...