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It's really tiring to see all these sad liberal readings of the siutation as a 'lack of foresight' or 'waste of resources' or 'tragedy'. All this disc...

Imagine citing war criminal George fucking Bush as an authoratative source on anything whatsoever.

It was fantastic. I love how so many of the book's 'protagonists' were not human - fire, waterways, rats, plagues, walls, food etc. It really puts nat...

The democrats recently rolled over on letting Republicans basically pick their voters, so they will lose the senate next year. After which the dems wi...

Marshall Sahlins - Stone Age Economics Marshall Sahlins - Islands of History ...continuing my anthropology kick.

Well sure, bureaucrats have power.

This is very cute assuming that said strategists had any say in the matter. The American miltary is a private militia for private interests masqueradi...

The most naive thing is to think that Afghanistan was a failure. It was a tremendous success that helped transfer billions of tax dollars straight int...

:cheer: I keep coming back to that one, over and over.

No worries. I'm glad your demands and claims over other people's highly trained performing bodies gets your fragile, armchair rocks off.

Ah, no wonder you feel the need to whine extensively about someone not performing tricks for your entertainment. You've little else. Back in the good ...

Yeah that's probably not entirely fair. Although holy shit your entitlement fucking reeks. And it's most certainly a vast and snowflaky oversensitivit...

And you chose to write 7 paragraphs about it.

Imagine writing 7 paragraphs because someome treated like a show pony didn't do some tricks for them.

Just to be clear, to say that the 'origin of knowledge' is the sensory organs, is to distinguish it from other possible ways of coming to know things ...

Not at all. Empiricism is a claim about the source of knowledge as primarily sensory (as distinct from say, first principles a la Descartes). It does ...

Your thread is one such instance and apparently it's gone on for two pages, so you tell me. Figuratively speaking.

You're so obsessed with this notion of 'misuse' that you completely overlook the fact of no use: language which has no language-game at all, or an emp...

Misuse happens precisely when one treats the word 'game' as univocal across all these cases. 'Misuse' is what happens when you transplant words from o...

Then you have no idea what you are talking about.

Sure - it involves the same misreading you've been peddling everytime you talk about Wittgenstein, and every time someone corrects you, you ignore it ...

None of this has anything to do with your made up assertions about family resemblance or ideal languages.

He literally says that this is exactly what we shouldn't do. But sure, continue making shit up.

It's a common misunderstanding that Witty is an advocate for 'vagueness' or somesuch. Rather, he reckons that we continually or often look for 'exacti...

Nor that thinking in terms of 'properties' is the exact thing that the PI was pitched against, no matter how much one rejigs one's concepts of "proper...

Neither have you. You still haven't read a word of Wittgenstein yet persist in posting threads about him.

Have you ever considered actually reading Wittgenstein instead of creating innumerable treads on him based on your quarter baked wiki-gleaned understa...

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It's fascinating to me just how terrified Israel are of a boycott by an ice cream maker. They clearly see it as the tip of an possible iceberg (no pun...

Yeah, exactly. 'Popular opinion' ought not to be treated as a given: it is itself formed, the result of a process. The report talks of the need for su...

It was very good. But I was dissatisfied in that they did not attempt - and this was in truth likely beyond the scope of the report which they were di...

Typically 'differential' is used in the context of processes or verbs, rather than static things. This apple is different from that pear. But there is...

Fair enough. Am listening to the podcast now.

Would it be that this were a bug, rather than a feature, of liberal rule.

I'm just past the first chapter and it's absolutely absorbing. He writes with such momentum!

James C. Scott - Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States James C. Scott - Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Hum...

Wrong. One is not blown to pieces by 'Desire'. It's not 'Fear' that drops bombs that decimates populations. This shamanisation of war into capitalized...

Because the OP seems to barely have anything to do with war. It reads like how someone who has spent too much time reading books treats war - as an is...

Huh? One wages war to acquire territory, resources, people, trade routes, prestige, or buffer zones. Or else to eliminate or subjugate rivals who pose...

I've been so put off by so much of the wider discourse putting down the recent lockdown protests here as just being a bunch of idiots. They were idiot...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/25/israel-halves-gaza-fishing-zone-over-incendiary-balloon-fires More war crimes by the Israeli regime, just cas...

Idk, the anti-pomo cottage industry is as much a cottage-industry as all the actual industry that people like to also whine about. If I had to guess a...

For realsies though, the only people with anything interesting to say about postmodernism seem to the be Marxists (Jameson, Anderson, Eagleton, Callin...

I agree with the thrust of this, but I'd also argue that a marker of difference between modernism and postmodernism is an explicit self-awareness of t...

I'm more and more convinced that the only people who actually speak about postmodernism are people who are 'against' it - whatever 'it' is. Irony of i...

I actually want to read these because people ask me about them all the time and I have nothing to say lol.

This is really cool. I like the way the SEP article is written too. It's got a bit of sass to it.

Duh.

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