unenlightened

You tried narcissist - why not upgrade to psychopath?

Well thanks, but it wasn't us, and it wasn't even grassroots Conservatives, who were given the choice of madwoman of no fixed opinion, or millionaire ...

Are you chaps having a big disagreement about the real character of "Russian identity"? Is it some kind of Jungian archetype? Is there anything remote...

Did your Mummy and Daddy not explain the facts of life to you?

I agree. It would be ridiculous to suggest there are no significant biological differences. What on earth made you think I suggested anything of the s...

It can't be either, if you mean by 'it' the answer to my question to you. I have already given you personal testimony that people cannot always 'obvio...

You are not saying anything. What is the need to differentiate the sexes by dress and hairstyle, then? I'm saying it's because you need to know who to...

If that were the case, there would be no need to differentiate them by artificial means such as designated clothing, hairstyles etc. In the days when ...

I bet he can bend spoons too, just by stroking them with his lovely little hands.

If you start with the enlightenment image of the white man as 'thinking thing', you get a physically feminised white man in relation to the physically...

Jesus is even older than me. He's celebrating his 2022'nd birthday this year though he has entirely forgotten which day it was and exactly how many ye...

War is insanity. Each side accusing the other of insanity is part of the war. Can one speak of insanity sanely?

Observation, , question. Such is the structure of a thought, that invites further thought, even as it questions the value of thought. So let's think a...

You need to read 'Soul on Ice' by Eldridge Cleaver, because there is an intersection between gender and race. The image of a man is not the image of a...

Indeed. but you are not asking about what the truth is, but what the plan is. The plan is to win - the truth is everyone loses.

That seems unarguable. But it is in general the case that wars are prosecuted on the basis that: War is always 'to the death'. There is no other plan....

I immediately thought of this: https://genius.com/Martin-carthy-palaces-of-gold-lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwkg2QUo9AU That was 1966. And ...

The good news, though, is that wiping out most of the human population not only makes sound economic sense now that we have robotics and bespoke 3D pr...

The myth: technological progress improves productivity so that everyone can have more goods and services for less time spent working. The reality: it ...

Speaking of tags, I'm not tagging any of you because I want you all to ignore my posts, even though I am talking about you. This is called 'dehumanisi...

There's an old tradition of thinking of society as 'the Great Man'. It's out of fashion, but it has some merit. One might extend your items from the i...

https://saulkripkecenter.org/index.php/blog/ Apparently he's died. The naming turns out to have been contingent after all. I'm expecting a national ho...

Registering a birth is fairly solemn, conferring nationality and name; I think it would be a serious mistake to imagine that ritual is something we mo...

I think instincts are rather limited in humans to things like fear of heights, startle reactions, smiling, suckling, babbling, and a few more. They wo...

There are no winners in war. The survivors get to count their dead.

One obtains a birth certificate for a baby by means of a ritual of 'registration', which ritual confers the status of citizenship on the infant. Ritua...

This is a fine principle for maintaining the status quo. But it cannot lead to reformation or revolution. It will not work for a soldier, who must be ...

There is something of a movement in psychiatry to regard hearing voices as a natural phenomenon. It is much more common than is generally supposed, be...

If virtue was rewarded and vice punished, it would be mere common sense to be virtuous and mere folly to be otherwise. Sometimes the price of virtue i...

We do love our analogies don't we? Well doctor, when the patient has his hands round your neck and his foot on your testicles, the treatment I would r...

In a bit of cybernetic serendipity, this appeared on my facebook feed today. https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/a-philosophy-of-madness-the-experience-of-psy...

I want to say some stuff that is a bit peripheral perhaps, with half an eye on the more sceptical brethren among us, by way of trying to make a space ...

There is quite a strong argument against democracy, that it leads to short term populism. For example, the energy crisis will lead to the opposite of ...

Well thanks. If we are somewhat talking about the same thing, it is not a topic I would normally discuss here in public, because it is necessarily per...

It's as if, behind a veil, a whisper suggests, there is some particular business you have in this time and place. Play nice ethics are fine for the mu...

Sorry, no reference at all It just seemed obvious that if there is a largest number, decimal iterations must end at it - one cannot have the largest-n...

All ye lovers and worshippers of Sophia, take notice that there are other gods. As you look down from your temples, you see Psyche, Ego, Mars, and Ven...

In sadness, one is reduced to psychology. It's a matter of identification. Just as folk will die for 'their country', so they will die for their way o...

I'm a monarchist. I regard the institution as an insurance policy against dictatorship. The general public are extremely gullible, and can probably be...

To which the polite response in the circumstances would be, "You'd need to consult my mother on whether she is comfortable with that."

You can call me whatever you like, I am not hot on -ismic identification, I am describing why I think some things are science and others are not. 'Pra...

I would say that validity pertains to argument, not to demonstration. If you want to send a rocket to the moon, or fire a shell at your enemy, or cons...

Science does not proceed by argument, but by demonstration. The very idea of a universal force of attraction that acts at a distance is quite ridiculo...

Thanks for that. I was wondering what he had to say about fascism, as the negation of democracy; this seems to be the book for that. https://books.goo...

Put this in brackets, and call it the Dewey, Nickles, unenlightened position. So we can put ourselves in the shoes of some other that calls this 'Comm...

This is the result of loose talking. The faculty of imagination is real, the contents of imagination are imaginary. The problem you have is not so muc...

As if a man had had his legs bitten off by a shark, and we all earnestly inquire what is the most important problem; that he is drowning, that he is b...

Unfortunately, there is no escape from the politics. Progressives can accept the need for institutions, for a stability in society, the way a home imp...

That's indoctrination!

As if by magic, conservative and progressive align with wealth and poverty, because the poor want to get rich and the rich want to stay rich.