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Incredible String Band, Maya. https://www.tutor2u.net/sociology/blog/meet-the-perspectives-functionalism-part-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_o...

Do you think there is a man who isn't concerned about his masculinity?

If you want to play the definition game, as this thread sets out to do, you really need to have regard to the distinctions the people who start talkin...

I wonder why you want this comprehension and memory? If it is to gain qualifications, to impress the ladies, to be able to name drop impressively, and...

Indeed. logic cannot say you should do anything or not do anything, any more than it can tell you what I have in my pocket. Logic is weak, and it cann...

I am concerned, and it is something mods have to consider. Which is why I emphasise the logic that anyone who commends suicide is not speaking from ex...

That's a much more interesting question. I think it's something like this: You know those town centre maps that have a label stuck on, "you are here."...

Dead men don't post. They don't fear arrest either.

Everyone who responds has chosen to go on living for the time being. I fail to see why any explanation of this choice would be a police matter; plans ...

I was teasing. But if you were so fortunate as to be me, you would understand that whomsoever you might be, you could ask the equivalent question, in ...

Banno likes you to think for yourself, but I prefer to spoon-feed you the right answers. What is wrong with The Republic is that it is a tyranny. That...

Everybody's got to be someone, and I guess you just got the short straw. It's sheer bad luck.

No it isn't. There is an endless supply of people complaining that life is all meaningless suffering. This thread gets repeated every few weeks with v...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Sistema

Guilty as charged! I was involved in the FreeSchool Movement back in the day, and HomeSchooling with Education Otherwise. Bibliography. A.S.Neil. Summ...

Sorry, you seem exercised about something, but I'm not clear what. I assume you want to conserve what is good, and progress to what needs improvement....

For the physicalists of the forum, the stakes are high. If you are correct, their whole world-view collapses. So they want a lot more evidence than ju...

It's odd how people speculate about why people go on living as if it is something that they wouldn't consider for themselves, but surely there must be...

I love it! My feet hurt, my knees are giving way, my back is agony my skin has gone brittle, (I am old) but we have just moved house and there is a ga...

I'm trying to provoke a thought or two. I oppose 'conservative' to 'progressive'. Everyone (I assume) wants to conserve what is good and progress to w...

I think that the major factor in education is not what is in the books or in the words of the teachers but in the social structure and the behaviour m...

Indeed, the Luddites exemplify the conservative left, seeking to conserve the traditions of working practice from the tyranny of progress and mechanis...

As they are in every part of the world, the writ of human law being universally local. But the point stands against anyone who wishes to claim superio...

There are enforced dress codes in the enlightened democratic rational West too. Some body parts must be exposed, and some must be covered. Walk down t...

What was the original left? I'd suggest this rabble as setting the scene before the classification of left and right came into being. They were saved ...

So necessity has a scope in the domain of language that extends to valid reasoning. It does not extend to the world at large, because language and log...

The programmer is the god of his virtual world. He can enter his world as an invulnerable super-avatar, or stop virtual time and rearrange things, or ...

A room full of articulate opinionated know-it-alls from every corner of the world and every political and/or religious persuasion, discussing everythi...

I thought that was a joke. As in it's ok to call caucasians 'melanin defectives'. Not.

I was an active admin on the previous incarnation of the site, but have retired. An open site like this must expect to have homosexuals, women, and ev...

Damn. Arrested by the thought police again. I spit on your so-called ideology that is behaviourally identical with its opposite.

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the usual suspects.It has always been obvious to me that the political spectrum is spherical such that the extremes of left and ...

Good grief! The amount of scientific energy that has been invested in controlling fertility declares that being able to have a child with your spouse ...

I think I would much rather argue that it is a sin. We are familiar with the language of classification 'defective' and the vile policies that flow th...

Perhaps not already knowing is a defect?

If you were interested, you might wonder what I mean by 'social' and 'delegitimising'. But as it is, I am suitably flattered that you consider my view...

I'm not sure what your actual disagreement is. Is the argument that if I am critical of psychiatry, I must be in favour of murder and suicide? Cool! R...

Peterson follows a long tradition of psychological and psychiatric support and defence of the status quo in its most authoritarian and controlling asp...

Lockdown has hardly changed my life at all. Am I lucky, or to be pitied? Resentment is highly contagious, but fortunately, dogs are immune. Knitting i...

:up: That'll do. Life is for living, games are for playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMSMUuLxT8o

Does he have a name for one of these? "If you think shit smells, you must think your nose is trying to poison you." A kissing cousin to a reductio.

Not at all. We grown-ups do it all the time; we call it 'cleaning', and it it is the foundation of civilisation. You know, like draining the swamp.

I really don't understand how these are foundational or prior to a society? The notion of property and hence theft and tax developed out of agrarian s...

So the goal of going for a walk is to sit down, because every walk ends in a rest?

Try driving on the wrong side of the road and feel the genuine force.The idea that social pressure is unreal is as ridiculous as that it is unnecessar...

I think I would generally prefer to call it "interaction". Thus your observation is a particular sort of interaction (with the world), and your postin...

Will Continued Social Distancing Ultimately Destroy All Human Life on this Planet? Of course it will. reproduction demands a certain intimacy, and wit...

It's a weak point and a largely false belief. Firstly, other people are as real as gravity, and secondly, social structures are almost invariably base...