Brett

Though there are other factors at work in a film, like emotion for instance. And some films are very complex, much more so than ‘Transformer’. Which i...

Ironically I think it’s this subjectivity and the impossibility of getting outside of it that’s led to the relativism we experience in so many aspects...

While I wish your post convinced everyone I myself still see a problem. Someone might read a book and take no more from it than they might from a film...

To know that animals produce art you would have to prove they’re doing it as a conscious act.

What arts? Can you be sure you’re not applying your subjective opinion on what art is, that what you recognise as art is just yourself applying our co...

I’m sure there’s a moral in there somewhere.

Yes, in fact those words are used by me on special occasions, so to speak. They have a purpose.

It’s true, this is an Antinatalism Post. Sending a generation out into space who will bear and raise children as they fly to their destination is the ...

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No, that wasn’t me, wasn’t my comment.

I think I created my own cage, because as time went on I was less inclined to take on the difficulties that would eventuate if I didn’t conform a litt...

Nor do you get citizenship merely by agreeing to the laws of the USA, you have to be accepted.

Which would be signified by becoming a citizen. Citizenship is an agreement and acceptance. So those amendments apply only to citizens.

“In general, the first ten amendments, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, offer specific protections of individual liberty and justice and plac...

Which is an interesting point. The use of the word elite in these posts is beginning to get very general and broad. But in your case I would regard th...

I might add to that, that if the artist had no purpose or intent then what are they doing, what does their art represent, why is it there and why shou...

This is where things begin to diverge a little, or a lot. If someone is looking at Picasso’s ‘Ma Jolie’ without any idea of what’s going on then they’...

This is a very long trip, plenty of time for a bit of bio genetic manipulation. Of course by the time they reach their destination they would no longe...

I don’t understand this.

‘Should, should, should. You’re all over the place and you ignore everyone else’s comments. Did you chose not to answer my question.

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Really? So if you were a policeman, or a councillor, what language would you use interviewing a young girl who had been raped?

If the people on the spaceship can't change from what the first generation were, human nature still operating as it always has, then it's unlikely the...

I was thinking the trip might change them for the better.

But why should the second generation pay the price for what their parents did? The context of the ship, the nature of living like that, generation to ...

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I’m not disagreeing. When I said ‘nah’ I’m just being flippant. It’s how we elites roll.

The problem is that the first generation experienced the past, they know.

You’re probably right, though sailing to the New World (I was actually thinking of the settlers who left the East Coast for the mid west) might have s...

I should add that there are many closed circles, some big, some small. They’re closed only in the sense that you get it or you don’t. Some get William...

No, I wasn’t thinking that, well I don’t think so (I can’t be bothered even going back over my own posts). Anyway, I don’t now. Like I said, if kids a...

Your logic is unassailable. Most of your posts are reasonable even, most times, under pressure. And in the case of art and subjectivity I agree with y...

Is this service a voluntary act? Is the first generation in the space craft serving a purpose for the sake of the future of mankind or seeking somethi...

Interesting. So they’ll fight each other on an agreed upon breaking of the rules. Sort of a gentleman’s agreement.

But this doesn't address Wallows thoughts on SDI which is a defence strategy making America impregnable. What you're talking about us another offence ...

All your posts contain very accessible information. How do we know this isn't another version of Reagon's SDI strategy?

That’s very interesting. Once again, did it work or have we been lucky? I’m guessing it worked in the sense, as I understand it, that the USSR backed ...

Im a bit confused here. It can only be enacted if we had the lasers. Yet you say it was effective. But in fact we were still living the MAD strategy.

Oh, no wonder it sounded like a disease. Thanks. That’s interesting. Then both are illusions. An illusion for each age.

I’m interested in Wallows existential imperative. When he says ‘we’ I’m assuming he means the USA, which I accept and understand. Assuming such a thin...

But then if people feel safe and secure, even if it’s only a perception, then I’d guess they’re less likely to behave aggressively.

I have to say I never considered just what this laser was.

Under STI America would no longer live in fear and why should they, and their allies. ‘Might is right’ finally confirmed. Happy wife (USA) happy life ...

The world of MAD actually looks quite civilised in retrospect, in that it seems to have kept everyone reasonably clear headed. The Cuban missile crisi...

If I’m reading you right you’re for the Strategic Defence Initiative. If so is that because it finalises the situation once and for all as opposed to ...

The words have to be said first before someone can be offended. Who uses these words? I think you’re right about this language being vulgar, ‘of the p...

I was asking because I was wondering if a person might use ‘fuck’ instead of ‘intercourse’ because the rawness feels more real, more honest.

Why, I’m assuming you do, why do you prefer to use ‘cock’ over ‘penis’?

It threatens language by using such words as a substitute for a word that has an etymology. As I said, it’s not extending a vocabulary, it’s just repl...

I suspect it’s because people, adults, regard them as infantile.