I think it's simply the way the upper class takes pains to distinguish itself from the hoi-poloi. The peasants are consuming, therefore we will diet. ...
Had to look it up, this was what I found. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0162243920923087?journalCode=sthd# https://www.pennlive.com/opi...
We are traumatised. Who represents us? A hate-filled narcissist fantasist. Hate Trump, hate the American voter. But your hate cannot match his or ours...
No it's donkeys you can talk the hind legs off of, bears' legs are more robust. Why'd auto-correct want me to say 'handles' not 'hind legs'? No one ha...
How about "addicts getting a fix", as more realistic analogy. https://www.psychguides.com/behavioral-disorders/shopping-addiction/ Hedonism does not r...
That is what we hippies call 'a heavy trip' you're laying on us. It took me right back to the early seventies at uni, where, in the final year all my ...
Don't. Watch the video and decide. I'm just talking telegraphically. I don't think it's sinister, I think it's dexter, that's why I'm sharing it. But ...
Since we're psychologising, this is a bit of an advert, but it's convinced me I need this book... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl8NKF5to-0 The idea...
Well this is what you retreat to, not your original objections. And I am content to let the disagreement stand and honour your dis agreement. I see th...
Hanover, I think you might be right. Perhaps the philosophy of psychology should be discussed in a separate thread, although I still think David Smail...
Yup. Nope. Trying to understand an individual is an I-thou relationship Very very different to trying to measure an abstracted average five-yr-old, or...
Bogeyman, Bogeyman. You are the bogeyman! Dude, I'm doing philosophy. I'm looking at the conditions of doing psychology, and making some serious criti...
That's not exactly new. But generally, experimental psychology tends to be abusive in two ways; firstly most experiments involve deception, and second...
Roughly at the point where, we hope, they get the permission of the parents, but probably, alas, not of the children themselves to experiment on them....
In reference to the Fanon lecture I linked to above, I can relate that when I lived in the South of France in the 80s, and probably still, there were ...
You won't leave it will you? Well while I wait for the mods to hive this off to a separate thread, I'll refer you to an old thread of mine that looks ...
No. I meant what I said, and it is a generalisation about mainstream psychology. I don't think here is the place to defend it, but I am referring back...
I think it's worth holding onto the idea that psychology as an industry is largely in the business of undermining any class consciousness, and support...
Yes. It also says that the predictor puts something or nothing in box B before the choice is made. So my faith is that my choice cannot affect the pas...
It's not a secret though is it? I heard about it in Patricia Williams Reith Lectures in 1997. That's a long time ago and a long way away. You'd think ...
The logic is that what I choose now cannot influence what is already in the box. The predictor has to predict whether you are bound by logic or by fai...
David Smail has some interesting stuff on this. Notably the notion of a personal event horizon. So for reasons of international (American) economics a...
This thread is in danger of becoming, hopeful, conciliatory, and illuminating. Are we seeing, and being part of a process of pain and our lashing out ...
It's an industry. As you say, you are a sucker. It's called 'self-help', and so I, or whoever, am going to help you to help yourself. I'm here to help...
An odd fellow, but decent, and worth reading. I hope he decides to come back. Politics, eh? I'm not the boss of you, but I'd recommend not posting a s...
The circumstances of your question are that you and I are connected via the internet and communicating via some electronic device through a website de...
If the implication is that black people can be as oppressive as white people in the very few situations where they dominate, then I don't see a diffic...
I can say more stuff, I don't know if it will help. I'm not entirely certain I have understood Wittgenstein aright. And I'm not sure what you think is...
Also, hover on the title on the front page and the category will be revealed before you have to get here. Super handy for avoiding religion. But the r...
Take a wee break. Watch this cartoon about some other black folks in another place with problems. It's the same shitty British Colonial legacy, but it...
I don't think W. goes into Descartes at all. But it makes an interesting contrast. firstly, Descartes is explicitly looking for a foundation for knowl...
I don't. There are all sorts of things, including objects, that exist in specific locations. This is why I talk about things and not objects. Yes, and...
I thought this was in poor taste as a response to my saying I had the virus. And not just for being factually wrong about my risk factors. I had just ...
This looks like the discussion that needs to be had. It is obvious, to some of us at least, that the institutions of government have lost the moral au...
I'll second that. One can put up with a degree of rudeness if the philosophy is worth reading. Personally, however, I would prefer a forum that was mo...
As an ex admin, and ex mod, my axes are all well ground and my hatchets buried, along with the bodies. Trolls come in many flavours, but the essence, ...
I don't think I know how to respond to that. When I say looking the other way, I mean this:- Here, quite explicitly, it is the destruction of property...
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