unenlightened

Folks make analogies with WW2 and the fight against fascism. But to me it is a false analogy. Both in the trench war and artillery attrition, and in t...

You said it in response to my post not particularly addressed to you, pointing out that to make that distinction was to enter the war. which you did n...

Everything becomes like Neighbours by season 3.

The symmetry is between the way you see it and the way your opponents see it. But to be comfortable with war is assuredly to be a good long way from i...

No one can have a fight on their own. It takes two. Assigning blame is taking sides.

More so, I object to the notion that innocence is any kind of virtue, or bestows any kind of entitlement. It is no achievement and merits no reward, n...

I haven't watched it but it's highly suspicious that it pops up just as Neighbours is ending. Are you sure it's not just Ramsey Street does Allo Allo?...

the mark of what I mean by voodoo economics is that money is made for the market makers at the expense of the real economy. So junk bonds, asset-strip...

The tradition has been to favour the theory of cockup over conspiracy. But times have changed, and although partly we are seeing the shit that has alw...

Canada is so nice Canadians have no need to escape to Cyberspace.

I don't know either, I vaguely remember some shout box altercation a while back. It just stuck me as a very laborious 'punishment' of us all to delete...

Only the skin colour.

Yes, nobody likes being moderated, and everyone is inclined to think they have been treated unfairly. Well I glad you haven't deleted yourself entirel...

I see @"karl stone" has deprived us of all 711 of his pearls of wisdom. I trust all you philistines and ingrates are suitably contrite.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/boris-johnson-wanted-to-give-carrie-symonds-a-100000-downing-street-role/?fbclid=IwAR3W2IFuCtmyZYCwm6XPVjqDyhTdBkQSCA...

Bertrand Russell, Promise Freedom to India after War with Japan, Bombay Chronicle, 10 March 1945 When a philosopher's vision extends over several cent...

There is a not terribly old expression of uncertain origin: -- "To the privileged, equality can feel like oppression." Which one can turn around. To t...

Thanks. That's a really useful analysis by the old Greek. So it would be silly to deny that these are my hands and this little cut on my thumb is an i...

I quoted what and who I was responding to, which was Ennui and you. Why is that not already clear from my original quoting? Look I don't understand wh...

I honestly don't know what your problem is. I'm contributing to the thread topic along with you, and I think we are discussing it together with other ...

Ah, the fragility of democracy is so vulnerable to truth isn't it? One cannot chose fairly between liars when one of them is exposed.

Are you rolling your eyes or wagging your finger at me? I may have misquoted and multiplied the misattributions, but it's the only citation in the thr...

Since when has it been illegal for foreigners to collude with foreign powers?

"And then they suck your brains out through your ear."

That is indeed the question! I am talking to myself in another body. :grin: But in practice, I quoted you quoting Ennui, and commenting in a direct wa...

Well since you invoke my name, I'll risk one more explanation of my pov. In common with probably most folk and most philosophers, I take awareness to ...

Well you have described the state of affairs; What "I" has access to is identified with, and that 'makes the difference between us. It's not much of a...

How disappointing! Not a single source has been cited, leaving the reader with unsubstantiated opinions on all sides. It's almost as if there are no h...

There is stuff. There is an assemblage of stuff amongst stuff that is aware of stuff. There is an assemblage of stuff amongst stuff that is aware of b...

Yeah, you said.

Yeah, you said. But it's not stealing Hilary's emails he's going to be charged with, but exposing war crimes of The US.

I don't much like the guy either. But It's really bad news for any kind of freedom of speech reporting of truth and exposure of high crimes and misdem...

If I believe in science, the direction is from thought to world, but I believe in science because the direction of fit of science itself is from world...

Consider a human neonate, if your memory does not reach to your experience of the state. No reading of labels is possible. One is in a state of helple...

In cyberspace, parody is indistinguishable from propaganda.

Not so much a philosopher, more a snake oil salesman taking advantage of our free site.

Things are such that there's no such thing as 'no such thing'. Which pile of words establishes no more than that there is a pile of words. Thus to ask...

Perhaps stop thinking about religion as primarily a set of beliefs that become more credible in proportion to their internal consistency. Instead, tre...

Well no. That is rather the point. What I was doing politically 50 years ago had some small local success, but overall the problem of homelessness and...

You know me so well. I did my stint as a volunteer for the Cyrenians, many years ago, and later formed a residents association in Leeds that succeeded...

I don't think so. I don't build roads or power stations, but we do. Building even a small house is a big undertaking for one old man, but for a town o...

Here is a nice piece of anthropology about this crazy tribe who worship The Duke of Edinburgh. Hard for us to understand that, but when they visited u...

Elsewhere I have suggested that hatred is a secondary emotion, typically a response to a primary emotion of hurt or fear. I imagine that fear is ever-...

Yes. Trust is the default because we are born helpless and have to trust. And this continues to be the case even when we are betrayed. You can trust m...

It must be clear to anyone with eyes that Reich's psychology of fascism applies to left and right equally. It is a betrayal of the whole of civilisati...

No it doesn't. You have come up completely empty handed on the truth front. You have dismissed beliefs you never held, in favour of nothing at all. Th...

Education is the reproductive system of a culture. Train the peasants to conform and obey; educate the leaders to plan and command. That you hear two ...

Here is a song about the end of humanity in a Nuclear War. The last line echoes But it does so with huge passion, great beauty and sadness. In the end...

Excellent opening post. I hope this will develop. I'm not all that familiar with Hegel or Brandom, but I cannot resist chipping in a little, and I wil...

Thee and me can see our bitterness, and our unenlightenedness because we are not entirely dead to another being. Thus we feel our hypocrisy and are as...