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Of course! Fdrake is among the best posters on the forum, and he most definitely has a cheerleader in me, especially in his apt charactrizsation of yo...

Oh an Apo post! I love this so much though.

Oh good I was worried for a sec. My moral purity meter was pinging.

Wait are u saying u aren't an owl?

If you say so, buttercup.

Sudden? Lol. Lane's been on my reading list since the book came out, and Hoffman's a nice compliment to that. I fully admit my theoretical promiscuity...

>:O

That blog post was fascinating! I keep wandering back to psychoanalytic point where the cheating husband's relationship with his lover only 'works' in...

I imagine that approaching ecosystems through network analysis would have alot to say about this: i.e. more biodiverse ecosystems have more nodes that...

Bahaha, love it. :-*

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This, by the way, is definitely part of the motivation here - to think of the human in ecological terms is to think of the human in terms of populatio...

The question of paramatizaion is facinating to me - like, what is the exact status of a 'parameter'? Is it simply 'epistemic', 'merely' a way to gain ...

Well, I am a little cross that you haven't really provided an argument for what you've said but I think I can reconstruct where you're coming from any...

Yep! Bounded does not mean closed - I was going to reply with this exact same distinction, but you got there first.

Hey! Long time so see! The point that really resonated with me, I think - and it's hardly new - is that idea that well-established, richly functioning...

I think this is not only perfectly desirable, but has in fact an already-established legacy: the psychiatrist/ecologist Gregory Bateson, for instance,...

This makes a heap of sense, and is a really nice corrective. Thanks. True, true. I guess it's more that living things have a 'dedicated' 'in-built' he...

I'm not sure what is referred to here by 'such behaviour'. Neither is it clear to me which 'economic theory' you're referring to, given that the so-ca...

By rejecting such ideas as among the most deleterious and damaging ones ever peddled by anyone, anywhere. Or more specifically, by rejecting the incre...

I'm not sure what you mean with your question. Like, what exactly would need reconciling, and why? Could you elaborate?

Oh, and to shoehorn in a point of politics, it might be argued, on the basis of the above, that philosophies of rugged individualism are thus philosop...

Nick Lane - The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it Is? Peter Hoffman - Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos

Ah, but Atwood cribbed it from Prospero's conversation with Caliban in the first act of the Tempest: "Hag-seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel. And be quick,...

Alternatively, if she didn't live among beasts and those who encourage and support them by victim-blaming, such a situation could also be avoided. As ...

Incidentally I think this is a bit crap. Some of the most valuable teaching lessons I've had in my life have come from being shamed by others, and vow...

There's a time and place for a bit of tact. This isn't it.

Of course I haven't. You're wrangling endlessly about shame in a thread of shameless people.

Oh get over yourself. If you have the wherewithal to hand-hold and sweet-talk a bunch of mysogynist long-tongued hag-seeds, then be my guest.

My dear snowflakes can take it, I believe in them.

*yawn* if you think Thoron et. al. feel a hint of shame over this discussion, I'll eat my hat.

I'll make you a deal, I'll only ever throw Bardian insults around from now on - you frothy dizzy-eyed wagtail.

My kingdom for a hint of shame on behalf of anyone I'm arguing against. Sorry I'm just feeling Shakespearean tonight. Immoderately, at times.

Methinks you doth protest too much - it's not as if my interlocutors are red-faced and demure.

Yeah, how could a woman not expect to be raped and/or sexually harrassed when dressed 'immodestly'? How oh how? This being the presumably 'good', 'wel...

Yeah, but reference to children and old people don't fit the moralizing frame of our sexual high-priests who live in morbid fear of women's sexuality.

Yep. I loathe to have to mention it, but it's such a pernicious, vile myth - promulgated by multiple shitheads in this thread alone - that it deserves...

While we're at it, lets set to the flames the entirely stupid idea that so-called 'provocatively dressed woman' ('provocative' only to a bunch of sexu...

Not usually one to zombie a thread, but this was too perfect an easily-digestible illustration of the major points of this thread: https://www.youtube...

Call me cynical, but I don't expect to change the mind of someone like Thoron. What I do expect is to frame the issue right, and Thoron's post was exe...

The very framing of sexuality as a matter of 'provocation' is already pathetic - as if sex is a field of antagonism and fear (letcherous women 'provok...

PF: a place of learning and education.

Don't be a sook, baby.

Oh yes I'm positively lecherous darling. This one time, I held hands with a woman, and I wasn't even with my chaperone. I could even see her ankles an...

Lol, mongoloid isn't even a real anthropological category, it's just a nice bombastic insult in general. Happy to withdraw it and replace it with 'cav...

ITT: Bunch of fucking mongoloid pseudo-men incapable of cultivating a healthly relationship with their own desires - or other humans for that matter.

I agree though, that this is exactly the advantange that most reactionary political philosophies have had over so-called 'progressive' ideas: a monopo...

Heh, I reviewed that album for a publication when it was realesed and scored an interview with the guitarist as well. It's good stuff. Thay said, 'wha...

True, but to think of living well in terms of good and evil is also clearly a 'narrowing' of the former, which can - and I think ought to - be underst...

Righty-o, time out boys and girls.