I think you are underestimating the power of the state, but I agree. Besides, the state has generally been on the side of the corporation. (Marx: "The...
One way to account for a backward drift is that large portions of the population never approved of liberalization of values in the first place. Gay ma...
I wasn't demanding that any platform comply with my wishes. Verizon, Facebook, Apple, et al can set whatever rules they wish. However, their decisions...
Maybe referenda are not such a good idea? Sometimes referenda begin as a way for the "popular will" to be expressed, but most often referenda are star...
Some state/local governments in the US have adopted ranked choice voting -- first choice, second choice, third choice -- for state/local elections. Th...
Side Note: Minneapolis is still (slowly) undoing restrictive laws on liquor sales put in place after prohibition ended. Loosening the grip of restrict...
Apple removed Tumblr's app from their store; they claimed the removal was in response to child pornography being found on the site. It may be that chi...
One word used in two ways; denote means to use a word for factual communication. In the sentence, "I have ten marbles." "marbles" denotes small round ...
I have consciousness; you have consciousness; we do not have consciousness. Not as far as I know, anyway. Walpurgisnacht doesn't have many connotation...
Here's a nice song about memory by Ysaye M. Barnwell sung by Cantus, a Minneapolis male choir, one of my favorites, both choir and song. https://www.y...
I can summon two particular scent memories which "Christmas" stimulates: the odor of musty newspaper in which Christmas tree decorations were wrapped ...
Because we don't have direct contact with reality--we only have sensory input which we develop into more or less consistent images, sounds, odors, tex...
Good observation. There are greater differences between conservative Catholics and liberal Catholics than there are between the average Catholic and t...
If you are physically attacked, the rules of civil society allow you to protest and defend yourself. For instance, if someone menaces you, and you are...
Oh, StreetlightX, that's sooo cute, you used a quote from "Guess How Much I Love You" by Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram. Did your caretaker read it to ...
If you really loved me more than words could say, you would say nothing, would you not? Since you attempted to quantify your love for me, I have to as...
The dead fish should be grateful that there is still enough water in the river for there to be a flow worth going with. The tedious tweet smelling of ...
If your goal was achieving a behavior change from carnivory to vegetarianism you would describe a program for achieving it. People change their behavi...
It is very common in socialist circles to dismiss everything short of revolution (and just the right kind of revolution at that) as "reformism", "impr...
Left to our own devices (such as in the science fiction post apocalyptic scenario) we would probably find dog-eat-dog morality rising to the surface p...
"It" from above, 3. used in the normal subject position in statements about time, distance, or weather. "it's half past five" or 5. used to emphasize ...
Let's go back to Proto Indo European (PIE) it (pron.) Old English hit, neuter nominative and accusative of third person singular pronoun, from Proto-G...
According to the dictionary, it means 1. used to refer to a thing previously mentioned or easily identified. "a room with two beds in it" referring to...
Effective communication may be expressed grammatically or not. The advantage of grammatical utterances is that communication is more reliable expresse...
The subject is the pronoun "it" and whatever that pronoun is representing. In this case "it" stands in for the atmosphere, or the weather, or the clou...
The point of my post was not that humans are assholes and among the worst species, ever. Rather, it was to point out that speech isn't sufficient. How...
My guess is that no argument--moral, self-interest, environmental, etc--will succeed in changing the food habits of more than a few people. Why not? B...
Movement per se isn't dance. Movement becomes dance when there is the intention of moving rhythmically, in a pattern, usually to the accompaniment of ...
When you purchase a manufactured object, are you concerned about the working and living conditions of the animals (people) who produced the shirt, the...
Gifts are unbidden. You didn't ask for them. If you had asked for them, they would not be a gift. We give gifts for various reasons: love, sense of ob...
If it is unethical to exploit persons, treat them as a means rather than an end in themselves, define them in advance of their existence as useful for...
OF COURSE I accept the science of global warming. I am AWARE of the facts about coal, petroleum, and methane, and the various ways it ramifies through...
In the long run (like within the next hundred years of global warming) we will all be eating a vegetarian diet if we are eating at all, because climat...
No one has had rotting animal flesh stuck in their bowels and lived very long to tell about it. The whole point of digestion is for enzymes and bacter...
Doesn't everybody know that? Three sisters married farmers all living nearby, who were dairy, hog, and beef farmers. I spent quite a bit of time at th...
I was raised in a religious Protestant family but I am no longer a believer. By "ethical within certain limits" I mean that it is ethically acceptable...
Wallows: Please refrain from committing suicide this year. It would inconvenience at least 43 people were you to succeed. Were you to try and fail, ev...
What piece of education and critical thinking worked so well in the 1950s? That there was a homosexual communist behind every 10th desk in the State D...
I am aware of what happens in factory farming. I've seen the videos. I've read the articles. I've seen big factory farms. I've also seen small scale f...
It's pretty close to the same thing, because it is desirable to wait for the cow to be ready to breed, whether by a long arm and a tube or by a bull d...
We generally qualify people to be fully adult and responsible between the ages of 18 and 21. In late adolescence/early adulthood people make a lot of ...
Brains mature at a more or less consistent rate; what differs greatly from one individual to another is experience. Children who come from at least so...
That certainly applies to me. I was finished with undergraduate college, had had a great work experience, and was in graduate school by 25. Had I been...
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