Brett

That’s being very disingenuous. I told you I feel patronising because I had to name the common man jobs I’d done to prove I know what I’m talking abou...

Maybe you’re just surprised that someone who’s done those jobs can write and spell.

It feels very patronising of me to make that list. And why should I have to show you credentials to talk about the common man? Are you satisfied?

Come on.

However I have to say it seems extremely patronising to do what I’ve just done.

I’m hardly pontificating on his life. However if it makes any difference you I’ll give you some of my work history: Worked on a construction site Work...

Of course it can be used that way. But I’m not using it to be “condescending, arrogant and disrespectful”. So let’s drop that angle and continue with ...

What is it that makes you ask this?

Of course I’ve worked for a living. Does that satisfy you? I’m not your enemy here.

What ignorance and arrogance? And if I give you my work history would you believe me?

Oh, don’t be so boring and sanctimonious.

Yes, imagine you would. It sounds like you’re saying that ‘the common man’ doesn’t know who he is and what he’s doing and why. Consequently someone el...

From an essay by G. K Chesterton. The Common Man “To put it briefly; it is now the custom to say that most modern blunders have been due to the Common...

No, nor do I, though they have got into bed with post modernist thought and found themselves, possibly unintentionally, far removed from their origina...

Yes, of course. I don’t know why I asked.

Of course you’re right, but that does not mean it isn’t happening right now. Refer back to my quote about the Australian elections.

I understand that. I just felt that a definition needed to be a bit broader. The common man would most assuredly be for the first part of this quote a...

Isn’t it possible that by doing this they’re allowing white supremacists to take ownership of the flag. Shouldn’t they resist this by actually using i...

I don’t think that’s enough of a description of post modernism as it relates to ‘the common man’ or anyone for that matter. This describes it a bit mo...

I wasn’t after what it means, I was after ‘ what next?’.

That’s a persuasive point and if it means that words can’t always be claimed by their users to mean what they want them to mean then what next?

The response to the intolerable situation of suicide might be a rational decision but it’s a decision based on a lot of pressure which wouldn’t seem t...

I think it’s truly fitting that Kaepernick should turn around and bite the hand that feeds him. They deserve each other and hopefully they will neutra...

The ability to mine time, like a quarry. Chunks of it can be transformed into solid blocks of different sizes for transport and sale. Extremely valuab...

I’m not sure what you mean there. Could you clarify it?

This is an interesting statistic, though a little old. Australian men aged over 85 have the highest suicide rate in Australia, and more than double th...

Okay. Then if they have term ‘females’ in their name then doesn’t it follow that they represent the views or conditions of females. What’s a feminist ...

I like the term ‘hardened poor’, I would also use ‘pragmatic’.

Then I would chose Consequentialism. Choosing an act that has a good outcome is the basis behind the stability of our early tribes/societies and its c...

An interesting view. I suspect that what you call ‘blue collar people’, or ‘hardened poor’ may be the future.

There would probably be a new society in its place with a new order. We may not like it but it would be real. Could we still call Nazi Germany a socie...

Evidence for this? “ And also women who don't like men who get angry actually will very often let their emotions spew out into anger contrary to their...

There’s something about this that just doesn’t add up. Your position seems to be that if you believe you need a gun to feel safe then the problem is w...

If they have the word ‘female’ in their name then they represent the views or condition of females. Otherwise they’re concerned citizens. Why include ...

The theory, if that’s what’s required, is an anthropological theory. I was involved, as I think nearly everyone was, in a conversation about morality ...

quote="Anthony;302918"]society promotes adolescent behaviors, to be sure; anger, sexual deviance and narcissism are sanctioned) These generalisations ...

Maybe a good dose of anger returned might straighten them out. I don’t know if animals are angry when they square off (although they might show all th...

Well that makes sense. Anger being a natural aspect of being human, but then regarded as wrong and neurotic.

Interesting, yes. I don’t think anger can be parcelled up into the idea of neurosis. My point about his comment on ‘professionals, is that generally I...

All anger?

I suspect, though I’m no authority, that anger has a function. If I look up the meaning of anger I find that it can be any number of things: passive a...

Puzzling alright. And what’s a fully repressed emotion?

What do you mean here? Are you referring to learned or inherent?

Whether it’s suppression of repression, your thoughts are still that ‘Probably most high functioning "professionals" in the market society have anger ...

That we are moral creatures.

It’s possible that anger serves a purpose, it may be an action that actually stops us from taking the next step which is physical violence. Though it ...

I think it’s a very interesting point. Maybe it does have no moral basis at all. But why assume it’s fear, which does feel sad. I don’t feel that I li...

Actually, on second thoughts I’ll take that back and say that anger might be one of the most complicated of our emotions. Edit: Studies by Hochschild ...

I agree, but the ‘fight’ for what?

A bit of sleight if hand going on there. It looks very broad by your definition of each of those responses being anger. But in fact those situations h...