Quite true. It is quite possible to think that we have an extremely large role in making ourselves who we are because our physical selves form "in the...
Our intellectual development is preceded by, and flows from our physical bodies and our interactions with the physical world. Our egotistical brains w...
It really is a damn shame that this book wasn't taught in kindergarten. So many things would have been clear so much earlier. I executed my stage pres...
@"Jack Cummins" This from PubMed.gov, T. A. Judge, D. M. Cable So, this showed some relationship between height and 'success'. I think the popular thi...
I am a gay man who was born with very poor vision. These two aspects of my embodiment proved problematic in my now-distant youth. In my rural midweste...
Whether we are embodied as a perfect specimen or as a problematic body, "being a body" is a critical issue, especially for problematic bodies (persons...
As Uncle Karl said, one of the tasks of the working class is to reproduce society. And that's what we do -- not merely replacing dead bodies with babi...
Commissar: "After the Revolution, there will be enough bowling alleys for all. Nice ones. Worker: "But Commissar, I don't like bowling." Commissar: "C...
Of course it is "possible"; some people actually do remain celibate for all or much of their lives, some even without being monks, nuns, or priests. F...
I can trace my slender but sufficient means to numerous decisions I made in college and in employment. I'm not complaining about my own case. And yes,...
Procreation (the whole rigamarole of conception, pregnancy, and birth, feeding, diaper changes, etc.) isn't an immediate need. For women it's kind of ...
I do not drive (never have), so I should leave this alone, but fools rush in... The liquid-like flow of traffic must have something to do with your ar...
Individually, people are usually quite nice. We can be, sometimes, quite nice in large groups, too. Think of a church picnic. But it is when we get in...
It's safe to say the if Occupy had been really effective, the powers that be would not have stayed the hands of the police. It was very much amateur h...
Lives were much better after WWII for those who happened to survive it. But it is extremely true: Humans are just not very nice. Seriously. It always ...
According to Pew Research, slightly less than 7% of children have racial mixed parents. I assume that figure does not include the children of Irish/It...
The Occupy protests may have been initially mistaken by the overly-eager as the revolution. Sadly, not, but it was a good thing. Too bad it didn't end...
People maintain all sorts of delusions. One delusion: I could be rich, too. Another delusion: People get rich by their own efforts; work hard, get ric...
What Sanders was proposing was not all that revolutionary. You know, one can say we need revolutionary change. Whether one really wants to experience ...
There was once (1970s) a small magazine, The Radical Therapist", whose motto was "Therapy means change, not adjustment." Their logo was a chick just-h...
Personally, I prefer "The only war is the class war", but I'll stick to race. What people call a "race war" is really just "business as usual". If we ...
I prefer the standard gender pronouns applied in the usual way. I don't think changing pronouns to fit the fantasies and peculiarities of a very small...
BLUEPRINT FOR DISASTER by D. Bradford Hunt, part of the series Historical Studies of Urban America, University of Chicago Press is about the successfu...
You raise many good points. There is some research that indicates increased diversity decrease trust levels -- one of the essential elements in a heal...
Several billion years after the fact we can't go back and look at the beginning of life -- that time and space has long since been plowed under. True ...
Back in 1968 when I started a new job, I referred to "colored people". One of the "black" teachers laughed and said "I haven't heard that phrase in ye...
"belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence" is a useful definition when the word is used FORMALLY. The Roman Empire is ancient, be...
There are three population problems: Too many people, too few people, and the wrong demographic. The Social Security problem is a policy issue, not a ...
Only 113 million have been infected, and a mere 2.5 million dead. The 1918 influenza epidemic infected about a third of the world population (1920 pop...
Just joking, but pornographers never used the telegraph, as far as I know, but they did pick up on the potential of photography pretty quickly. It too...
Drawing on the computer metaphor, "Catholicism is your operating system. It is always in the background, no matter what applications are running." Eve...
Yes, beer. Definitely. The thing I want to bring forward is that people have MANY itches, scratched with art, politics, fashion, music, fiction, drama...
Do people need politics? Do people need games? Do people need fashion? Do people need fiction? Do they need alcohol, chocolate, coffee, tea, and tobac...
I missed out on most of the drug stuff. It was available, I could have. I am quite risk tolerant in some areas and risk averse in others. Psilocybin, ...
Yes, homosexuality was officially a perversion, a sickness, when I was growing up, and it was 'dangerous' to bring up the topic or show too much inter...
How long do you think that the present period is? I'd be willing to say that the last 100 years, give or take 15 minutes, is the modern age. WWI (star...
Don't forget "the regression to the mean", also called "regression to mediocrity". Two stupid people who mate are more likely to produce an average ch...
Here's an example from the BBC: Why would evolving into a black moth have helped the previously light colored moth? They were less conspicuous, less n...
One of my first exposures to really nasty interaction on the internet was in the comment-section under YouTube classical music videos. Who knew so man...
That's a very good question. People think they are using Facebook and Twitter. Actually, Facebook and Twitter are using them. Live as we have lived it...
Not so fast there. Cars did replace horses but not quite overnight. Until the beginning of the 20th century, horse power was ubiquitous in all sorts o...
My parents were born in 1905 and 1906 (died in 2007 and 1993, respectively) and witnessed or experienced several transitions and major innovations: fr...
If you look at the lives of the four great astronomers who followed Galileo, it would seem that his heresy trial did not bring astronomy to a screechi...
When did the Church declare 'scientific method' to be heretical? True, Galileo was found to hold a heretical heliocentric belief. However, Copernicus ...
Well, sure; why not? The technology involved in the placement of Perseverance on Mars is pretty impressive, much more refined than the also successful...
So you think that a positive emotion must entail a negative emotion? This isn't rocket science (we are not dealing with moving masses). The reverse sh...
The benefit of shutting off the media can't be over-stated. The various 'platforms' used to interact are not designed to be beneficial to us (even if ...
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