Athena

I will say yes, there are degrees of free will. Some people have a lot of self-awareness and others have none. How much free will we have depends on h...

What does that mean? I just posted Deming's points for making better products and creating a better work environment. It is not half-baked. During the...

But don't you see I am one of them! Don't you get how valuable we become when there are not enough people to do what needs to be done, but when there ...

Wait a minute-. I am not sure, but I think I see the world very differently from how you think I do. I have always lived in poverty. I know poverty as...

That is a lovely question. Some members of society contribute more than others. I think that justifies differences in resources. This was not as much ...

Are you saying literacy in the classics is a good thing? Why do you object to loyalty oaths? I was not sure what a patriotic platitude is, so I google...

I don't think anything is just good or bad. As I age, I appreciate the complexity of everything. Something may seem bad, but in relation to everything...

Oh yes, education for technology is disconnecting us from intuition. I learned in college that our personal experiences do not matter and our argument...

:chin: It is just Trump and the leaders of India and Brazil, and maybe Israel, because Israel is so much about Jewish versus everyone else. Hitler and...

I love what you said about education. That is a liberal education, not education for technology. I think some schools are returning to that, but right...

What you said might radically change for at least two reasons. The reason that is the most fun to think about is how new technology is making it possi...

So, what do you think US education is doing right, and what is it doing wrong, and why is this so? What do you believe is the purpose of education? Wh...

I would say human nature comes from the evolution of our species. We are naked apes (without hair covering us). Anthropology is one path of studying h...

I am not sure, but are you suggesting we all have compassion and basically the same life experience, manifesting a shared "common sense"? I am thinkin...

Oh yeah, that is a good topic, along with the book's "How to Think" explanation of how our emotions affect our judgment and how our experiences affect...

I am not sure. I think we need to consider our human nature and what brings out the best in us and what brings out the worst in us. In the past, we we...

On what facts do you base your argument? Education is scrambling to fix the problem. I am not alone, but unfortunately, I appear to be the only one wh...

Unfortunately, not every citizen is well educated. If we studied German history, we would know what the Prussians did to manifest a very powerful bure...

Might I say the problem is human nature? We are evolved social animals, and as such, we have a strong sense of belonging. Labeling people is divisive....

I expected Alan Jacob's book "How to Think" to explain deductive and inductive reasoning, but he explains what experience and emotions have to do with...

Remember when we said "Mind your own Business". I think right now, a few business folks wish Trump would stay away from plans that are ruining their b...

Thank you, those are moral considerations and this thread is about such morals. We imagine there is a left and right that have opposing moral values. ...

I see you are on the same page as AmadeusD. Human nature has not changed but its organization and technology has changed. The news today is talking ab...

Why do you insist on being so unpleasant? What changed is not human nature but how it is organized.

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Wow, I can not wrap my head around what you asserted. Before there can be fascism, there has to be experience with Industry and democracy. Hitler and ...

Harry Hindu;985222"]how can we as individuals be altruistic if we do not focus on maintaining our own health and sanity? :lol: I know that one very we...

Please explain.

The US did not have the bureaucratic capacity to have something like the Social Security bureaucracy we have today until Roosevelt and Hoover made thi...

I enjoy agreement. It helps me feel like I am not alone in the struggle to save the democracy we inherited. I am struggling for words to raise conscio...

What is your point? When I speak of the Military Industrial Complex, I also speak of a change in education that has strong social, economic, and polit...

I went back and checked, and you did not make an argument. You gave a list of people, and I see no meaning to that, except the implication that the "u...

Some people talk about fairies as though they are as real as butterflies and deer. Does that make fairies and unicorns real? Philosophy covers this bu...

I am not disputing what you say. I am not paying attention to the bull shit. Why do you think MAGA and the illusion of the day is more important than ...

I will try this again: Do we want to believe there is no difference between the past and present bureaucracies? How about this, our new real identity ...

Not true because I am not playing that game. I am not paying attention to the mythology of left and right. Those divisions never held any meaning for ...

Of what good is that consensus if there isn't a human instinct to conform? I have the impression that defending the viewpoint of people of color can b...

Trump is not all wrong in his efforts to disrupt that bureaucratic reality. — Athena Yes, he is. He and his henchmen are disrupting exactly those depa...

All people are tribal. That is becoming more obvious every day. We are social animals and have a need to belong, and that leads us to conform to the i...

Oh crap. I am sorry, but I have lost patience. On the light side, after one of my letters to the editor was published, I was invited to join a group o...

Here is the worst problem! Trump is getting rid of all those who do not salute him and march with his agenda. In the past, when a king died, that was ...

That is a culture change following the change in education. We changed how we teach young minds to work. They are no longer prepared for good reasonin...

Trump is a good Christian. :grin: We should all live by faith and stop attempting to reason. Leave everything up to God and Trump. All we need do is o...

Number 17 is not matter. Therefore, number 17 or the word "blue" can not be caused nor effect anything. I would like to gracefully withdraw from this ...

Okay, but this shift does not begin with him, and we can not resolve the problem without a better understanding of it. Eisenhower warned us of the Mil...

Buddhism addresses this problem. Meditation can bring us to a higher level of consciousness and diminish our ego's grip on us. Lacking self-awareness ...

Democracy is rule by reason, not authority over the people. Not grabbing power like Trump is attempting to do. If that is not understood, we have foug...

I hate labeling! Politics needs to be about issues, not imagined divisions. Only when our democracy is defended in the classroom is it defended, and w...

I see concern for liberty and justice for all, for which the US has stood for since its beginning. I do not see the connection between that and being ...

I do not support "mind-independent reality?" But I must say I do not understand anything you said. All of reality is a reaction to what is. All things...