May I suggest that blame games, finger pointing and personal theories may be better suited at a later date. It would probably be both more interesting...
The masses may act dumb from time to time, but the public - person for person - aren’t so easily duped. If I’m wrong we get what we deserve. If the ‘t...
All of the books I initially mentioned are part of his interest in reason and morals. I view it through my own lens which is admittedly interested wit...
Sharing information is what will save us not destroy us. They’ll be conspiracy theorists as usual but the positives far outweigh the negatives imo. We...
If by ‘near peak’ you mean ‘rate of infection’ it’s far too early to say that for Italy. In terms of number hospitalised and/or infected, we’re likely...
I’m curious what your views are here on ‘lockdowns’ and NY without any emotional baggage attached (if possible?) Just curious because if you take a br...
@"Shawn" I meant now we have enough salt, fat and sugar we nevertheless still possess the desire to glut on it. Our cravings for something hard to com...
I want what I need but I don’t know what I need. I could go tail chasing over this, but I think that about sums it up? Take salt, fat and sugar. We cr...
Note: I’m still massively worried about the longterm problems posed for developing countries. My VERY basic understanding of the situation at present ...
When it comes to the math these should help iron out any disagreements : - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k6nLfCbAzgo - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g...
It won’t change much once things settle down. It will happen again but the difference is we’ll be prepared. South Korea handled this well because they...
Lots to address here. I’ll try and cover what I can. Science relies heavily on removing extraneous circumstantial evidence. All experience, in this li...
Yes, there are different scenarios. It is quite possible as good as 100% off the population could be infected over the next couple of years. The gener...
After the economic destruction do you think this event will stop people looking for quick, easy money or help oil the chainsaws and invite the miners ...
Maybe I was being too harsh. I’m simply not interested in that stuff. I’m fascinated by what he has to say about religion and culture because I’m inte...
1) Don’t use commentaries by other philosophers. 2) Read a paragraph and think. 3) when you’ve finished a section write a summary of what you’ve just ...
He was open about his hatred of nationalism and anti-semitism. Anyone and anything he talked about was with derision and bombast. The heart of his wri...
Talking about race and culture doesn’t make the author ‘racist’. He openly deplores racism and calls the German attitudes of the time something like t...
What Jewish question? He praises the Jews and takes digs at them, he does the same for ‘Europeans’. His main concern was the evolution of religious at...
I question it too. My general impression of the situation has me seriously worried for the poorest. If my worries are unfounded it would be nice to se...
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/07/820-million-starving-people-number-growing/ https://www.creditdonkey.com/world-hunger-statistics.html If people...
That wasn’t the thrust of my point, but fair enough. I was referring to the economic fallout due to lockdowns potentially killing millions more than t...
Possible in developed countries. That is precisely my worry. Just because some countries can afford to hand out funds and suspend taxes doesn’t others...
This goes right back to the moral hypotheticals I’ve asked before. The issue is do you think it worthy saving one person today causing one million to ...
I do. It can be lessened by loosening the constriction on the global economy sooner rather than later. Meaning don’t ‘play safe’ to save our own consi...
I’m happy to get stuck into this more. In short Culture is viewed by Nietzsche as Culture of the Masses and Culture of the Individual as far as I can ...
My fault. It does look like I meant those stats were from US when it was only the first sentence. Just a knee-jerk reaction brought on by discussions ...
We were talking about Nietzsche. This a basic comment on Nietzsche’s view above. He actually has high praise for the Jews - ‘On the Geneaology of Mora...
The context was Nietzsche? I wasn’t throwing around colloquial tidbits. If you look at exactly how he views the term ‘Culture’ - that’s why I referred...
Sorry, I forgot the US was the all that mattered. That just reinforces my point that not enough people are thinking of this in terms of the global eco...
Yet many here dismissed my post on this matter and hypotheticals as ‘pointless’. The very same people are now ‘washing their hands of responsibility’ ...
You’re seriously under selling your point with those stats. 22,000 people in the US have died of the flu THIS YEAR already. HIV? How about heart disea...
You made my point for me ... ? If you think slaughtering people to Chopin is a sign of ‘Culture’ ... well, I think you get the point - understanding w...
It’s complex. Beyond Good and Evil is hard to fathom without understanding it alongside his other work, so taking one paragraph out of the context of ...
It is starting to look very much like people are trying their hardest not to make sense, yet appear to make sense by spitting out streams of words and...
This is extremely hard to explain without saying ‘read Kant’. He is careful with he words - too careful perhaps - and asks a lot of his reader. The mo...
I’m mostly in that camp with your friends. He does well to make clear some of Husserl’s ideas, but overall he narrows the phenomenological interest to...
Not that hard, yet numerous professors have been at loggerheads about the true meaning of his work for decades. What happens is students go to univers...
It’s just a silly paranoid power play. There is no immediate threat. Russia is simply fearful of US paranoia. It has to protect its economic sway in t...
Destroy the US how exactly? The US is under no threat whatsoever from anyone. The point is they can do as they please because their armed forces are f...
@"Xtrix" Just started listening to the latest podcast on Sean Carroll’s ‘Mindscape’ with Dennett. From the poscast: Sounds like it would interest you....
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