Of course they work in tandem, but they are not equally yoked. "Handmaid" doesn't mean slave; it means "something whose essential function is to serve...
We need more news like this: "Goats descend on suburban lawns in Boise, Idaho and eat everything". It turns out the goats were employees of a goatish ...
I am pretty much ignorant about what all goes on over much of the Internet these days. I occasionally feel slight twinges of guilt for being out the l...
I don't like hitching up the 'psychofascism of everyday life" to politics. Hitler and Mussolini were, in many ways, unsuccessful in exploiting the mas...
When or if fascism developes in America, it will have an American form -- not a 1920s German form. The prime example of American fascism has been the ...
Here is an interesting "long read" in The Guardian about denial and denialism. Ignorance does not cause, or put one into 'denial', but denial and deni...
The emotive aspect of humans -- and animal species down the line -- are part and parcel of being animals that feel threats viscerally, feel arousal, f...
"I read your posts as a protest against the fading narrative which has served the West for many centuries, and the tardiness of a satisfying replaceme...
He probably would have said "Tais-toi ou je vais te faire la même chose". I'm not sure that French speakers are able to use "fuck" with the same gramm...
Should you need a tough-guy line, and can't think of anything else, here's a line from an actual tough guy, used as a threat to somebody who was in hi...
Everything that rises must converge. (Chardin) Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics. (Peguy) The race is not to the swift, nor the batt...
I'm using a super computer here and it is overheating trying to figure out whether your post is a positive or negative. I think it's going to explode ...
What was the guy holding the chair going to do with it-- Yell "Get back in your cage!"? I noticed that nobody rushed to the aid and comfort of the all...
not all ignorance is the same. There is the ignorance stemming from a lack of instruction. One has to be taught the multiplication tables and the Peri...
Interviewer from the House UnAmerican Activities Committee: Are you now, or have you ever been a Hugoenot? Mr. Andrew K. I am not a Huguenot! HUAC Int...
So, are you any clearer about whether you are better off discovering the truth, or not? Life is unsatisfactory in many ways and sometimes one just doe...
Your link in the US says "404 - Page not found". The fat cat story linked up just fine, naturally. I'm not seeing any earthquake news, which is very d...
That was once a comforting assumption; it's not quite so comforting at the present moment. In any case, presidents long since began delegating to Nava...
In one respect, the group consensus is for a limitation of knowledge and power. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty has sought to stop the expansion o...
With respect to the Amish, you might like several of James Howard Kunstler's A World Made By Hand novels or some of his essays about knowledge, resour...
Our evolutionary descent gave us extensive linguistic and cognitive abilities tightly coupled with blinding primate ego-centricity (power without prob...
Well, just update the figures in the fundraising thread. Actually, I'd like two numbers: One, what does it cost per month to operate the site, and two...
I was prepared to prove that the world is meaningless, pointless, fleeting, temporary, and transient, but then you said there isn't any proof, so... t...
Neither the 'big picture' nor the 'granular' approach are exclusive, and we combine them all the time. But just for an example, beginning geology with...
It seems to me that general education courses, freshman and sophomore courses in college, are intended to provide "the big picture". That was true for...
These are interesting questions, but perhaps another thread? Never mind. Fascism requires certain political conditions to gain power; they could exist...
During WWII peaceful neutral Switzerland had to accept some fairly distasteful business dealings with the Third Reich in exchange for its continued ne...
I have spent far more time thinking about how to justify pacifism than how to justify military action. Short of the second coming, I don't see any rea...
It would appear the case that the problem is almost entirely attached to people who do not like homosexuals and seek to attack, punish, injure, and/or...
Should I cease the pursit of earthly achievements? No. Get back to work. That's it in a nutshell, but you might like the expanded version. First, stop...
Is part of your challenge the fact that homosexuals may be "invisible" when they display no characteristics of being gay? A gay farmer milking cows, a...
When people talk about artificial intelligence, it is either hard to know what they are talking about, or there is an assumption that "actual intellig...
IF you are looking for an absolute test, such as: you will be disappointed because no such absolute tests exists, and is unlikely to exist any time in...
Self-identification would not alone be sufficient as a test. Anyone can say they are gay or straight. Backing it up with behavior is much more compell...
It's not news to me that the decalogue is an optional matter of belief. I was taught that Jesus Christ in His person and sacrifice superseded the Law ...
Hmmmm, not so fast. I can label you "dead", but my act of labeling you dead has no consequence for you. You can relabel Denali and call it a hill, but...
Whadahyahmean, it doesn't leave much room for discussion? Our own direct experiences and existence are all we've ever had. Out of that comes the direc...
Well, the universe seems to recycle stuff, for sure -- and if you want to extend that to the recycling of being, go right ahead. Though there is nothi...
If I understand it correctly (I may not) nothing is destroyed. Matter can be turned into energy and energy can be turned into matter. Form, however, a...
The professional social workers were, most likely, "over-thinking" the question, but what is the cause, motivation, or source of "over-thinking"? One ...
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