Suppose the mores of your society are that Christian colonial racism that finds it moral to keep slaves and has a moralistic talk that justifies that....
Yes. I'll put it as plainly as I can. The will of the person is one thing that pertains to the individual, whereas the will of the people is a plurali...
Well that is the problem I seem to be having a lot, that I am describing a knot and folks will keep trying to untie it for me and explain why it is a ...
Fraid not. What does this mean? An individual has no power at all without society, since the individual is born helpless. With the relevant society th...
You mean I, as an individual, identify with the culture rather than with the individual that identifies with the culture? Well it couldn't, any more t...
I get the idea from the Indian government, whose policy it is. I get the idea from the Welsh government that has a policy of protecting the Welsh lang...
Yes I am. That's the paradox. Everyone thinks they are right, even the ones that realise they are probably not. I am defending that Namby-Pambies are ...
Hah! They want the same kind of shit as anyone else, you know, stuff they haven't got, stuff that is impossible. They want everyone to be middle-class...
That'll do, it's not the culture of people who agree with unenlightened in every detail, or the culture of people who understand this thread. I'm watc...
I fear one of the lessons of the 2 world wars is that populism has a momentum that can only be dissipated by a monumental level of horror, and not alw...
That's why it's odd. If you're smart enough to go trawling through the statistics to bend them to your propaganda, how come you're too stupid to put t...
That's awfully big of you and Plato, but in my culture Plato is the original colonialist, secure in the knowledge of his own superiority and the primi...
Humans are animals. But what makes us different from animals is that only we humans know that we are animals. Namby-Pambies are a human culture. But w...
No. I'm trying to describe rather than formulate or justify. I think the paradox has to be lived.I'll try and lay it out. Let's try it as a moral dile...
First, if you can hold to the notion "...that an individual is made of social relations", then it will sound less strange to talk about what a culture...
Right, I see. Yes, if by established you mean known, recognised. That is, Some undiscovered tribe can and will have a particular culture on its own, b...
So a large part of what I am doing here is describing a particular culture, which I also claim to be part of, which has a particular characteristic of...
Not at all. It's just that if the sheriff does not shoot every baddie, that doesn't mean he can't shoot you if you're a baddie. Sometimes there just a...
If she is, she is misreading the situation. The EU cannot afford a border hole in the Customs Union. It's an agreement to no border, or no agreement a...
So you could have identified yourself as a member of some commune or tribe, and you might not have known who your parents were or your date of birth. ...
Yes, I had hoped that the bedrock could be built on a little here, rather than just pointing out to folks, again, what that is under their feet. Randi...
How low can they stoop! The Guardian is reduced to cribbing my forum posts for its headlines. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/30/br...
I'm not using your identity to classify you at all, I am saying your identity is your classification. You were born not hatched,- that makes you mamma...
So it turns out there is a small majority in parliament in favour of a fantasy, whereby Britain gets exactly what it wants and does not have to pay fo...
Indeed, tribal markings. There is a way of talking, a subtlety of response that is the admission ticket to the club of the Namby-Pambies. Well social ...
I wonder what you mean by this? Identity always does this - subsumes the individual to a group - I am a doctor, or I am a melancholic - or whatever. A...
That's a very interesting aspect, but I'd like to shine a light from a different angle. Suppose one says,"I belong to the tribe, and the tribe belongs...
Well yes. In fact I can further generalise it: identity is always divisive. The cohesion that makes a group is sucked from the other that it excludes....
Right, I think this expresses the beginning of my argument very nicely. But there is a follow-up challenge. What is the difference between a sheep, an...
Without shame, there is no humour. Discuss with reference to the following: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/28/uae-mocked-for-gender-equali...
I just won the lottery - and became a genius. A true measure of intelligence is to take a moment's critical consideration of one's speculations before...
Ok, I'm not sure what this is all about, but it looks anti-Trump so it must be (a) true, and (b) significant. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...
On the one hand I am not going to disagree with you, and on the other I am not going to search back to find out why that is an apparent inconsistency ...
It seems to me that there is a vast difference between friends and traders. In trade, there are rules and legitimate expectations, that the coin I off...
Relax, dude, let the vindictiveness out, don't hold back like that. Sassy teenage girls are lovely things and once you get past their brittle nervousn...
Some local colour - the taste of the zeitgeist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcbY04JrMaU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0MZVBWW5NUvTR0E0SoGV1_W1c81D1...
Doing my best to remain silent so's not to remove all doubt, but thought y'all might like some dimensional confusion. Why read, when you can play? htt...
Nice illustration there that one of the attractions of punishment is the justification of righteous anger, and general moral superiority, and the proj...
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