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Earth to yupamiralda: Are you paying attention to this discussion?
March 15, 2018 at 01:45
Elites usually have many advantages, not just sexual. After all, if one is a member of the elite and one has to hustle and scramble for only fairly go...
March 15, 2018 at 01:44
Is getting laid a lot incompatible with philosophical goals? I wouldn't think so, as long as getting laid a lot isn't one's primary, secondary, or eve...
March 14, 2018 at 23:54
A more serious question is this: When hunter-gatherer bands started forming up into tribes, and became self-labeled as "Jack's Tribe" or whatever, wha...
March 14, 2018 at 23:03
True, but dar-winners don't start out by thinking of themselves as mere "mortal evolved biological organisms". Human dar-winners should think of thems...
March 14, 2018 at 22:52
Be the culture you want to create? As you say, preposterous, but suppose you want to do it anyway... You'll have to find a location where polygamous f...
March 14, 2018 at 22:21
In: Identity  — view comment
The basics of humanness (DNA) make us all pretty much alike. Nurture and individual experience add the details of difference.
March 14, 2018 at 04:00
It's lovely. Just adorable.
March 14, 2018 at 03:55
Ingravescent inimicalities. Meaning, starting out bad and getting worse; something brought on by the 'oscillating grundy'.
March 14, 2018 at 02:21
I find "gobsmacked" to be both repellant and very evocative. It means literally, smacked in the mouth, or shocked by a blow to the mouth, as in "shut ...
March 14, 2018 at 02:09
The etymology of 'spiel' suggested that the meaning, "a sales pitch" is late 19th century -- relatively recent. As a matter of usage, 'spiel' is at it...
March 14, 2018 at 02:03
I'll drink to that. Our golden retriever could make 3 departure distinctions: She was going to get a ride, she was going get a walk, she wasn't going ...
March 13, 2018 at 23:27
I like that. There is another skein: the Dionysian vs. the Apollonian drive. I think it was D. H. Lawrence who criticized Benjamin Franklin for being ...
March 13, 2018 at 20:25
Oh, persiflage -- a word I have needed for a long time. Thank you thank you thank you. Unfortunately persiflage reached peak popularity during the fir...
March 13, 2018 at 19:07
Had I my life to live over again and could customize it, I would like to be a securely tenured history professor at a fat, well-endowed university whe...
March 13, 2018 at 18:22
The biggest and best criticism of the US health care system is that it doesn't deliver one of the primary benefits people think it should deliver: Bet...
March 13, 2018 at 17:59
You might find the review of Pinker's book ENLIGHTENMENT NOW in Quillette. Scientism is used here, as suggested above,"other people's views of science...
March 13, 2018 at 05:35
I agree that people who claim to be transgendered are quite sincere in their belief that something is amiss with their personal identity and sexual se...
March 13, 2018 at 00:42
I am sometimes sarcastic, always sincere, and I never troll. I regret putting communication barriers in the way. I have heard complaints about Canadia...
March 13, 2018 at 00:22
It's not making mistakes, it's faking you out. And if you beat it, it was because it decided that you were due for a positive reinforcement. If you ch...
March 12, 2018 at 22:48
Ah, deepfake. Excellent choice of your first mot de jour.
March 12, 2018 at 22:43
You didn't hit your head while sleeping. You were wide awake when an agent of the Alt-Right snuck up on you and hit your head very hard with a copy of...
March 12, 2018 at 22:31
We can't decide to "want to change", but we can "want to change" and we can change. This idea supposed that we don't initiate our feelings -- we don't...
March 12, 2018 at 17:22
As it says in the American Constitution, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the proper placement of jam & cream on scones"... I assume the ...
March 12, 2018 at 15:03
He was pretty much the same. He's 89 now; I don't think he travels around much giving talks, now. I saw him at the U of M quite a few years ago, then ...
March 12, 2018 at 14:48
I have at least actually seen Chomsky in person.
March 12, 2018 at 06:23
Morality without an emotional commitment is not worth thinking about.
March 12, 2018 at 06:19
Quillette, like another earlier, lively, and defunct magazine, Lingua Franca, focuses on the affairs of the Academy. Peterson does too -- he being an ...
March 12, 2018 at 06:09
You mean, ... conspiracy is as bad as... BTW, Chomsky is God.
March 12, 2018 at 05:41
Peterson says that "some of those folktales have been traced back 13,000 years." Fascinating. I wonder how they did this tracing.
March 12, 2018 at 05:38
When a reader picks up a fantasy or science fiction book to weigh buying it, the decision will be made in just a few pages, maybe 1... 3... maybe 5--n...
March 12, 2018 at 05:25
One of my favorites.
March 12, 2018 at 04:53
Rotary International does good work, and it's a good networking organization. I would think you would find it beneficial to belong. There have been se...
March 11, 2018 at 20:21
For a few years I worked in an AIDS-service agency that had attracted quite a few unconventional types who believed in crystals as healing devices, pr...
March 11, 2018 at 03:59
Oh, there actually is a POMO Indian tribe in California. Amazing. I thought you were joking. They must find incomprehensible white PoMo English majors...
March 11, 2018 at 00:43
I should probably read Chernow. Chernow's bio gets good reviews, but that doesn't mean that JDR was not a ruthless capitalist. His son, JDR Jr., the o...
March 11, 2018 at 00:35
So, what did your fellow Rotarians do about this example of atrocious behavior (on the part of their fellow Rotarian?) Were your neighbors Slavic? Sla...
March 11, 2018 at 00:18
Yes, I remember that particular philosorumble. When we talk about differences between men and women, gays and straights. smart people and stupid peopl...
March 11, 2018 at 00:03
It means POst MOdern.
March 10, 2018 at 22:14
A writer in Quillette proposed that the discussion of transgenderism ought to be based on actual biology, rather than the more political foundation we...
March 10, 2018 at 17:52
Some observers think we do live in a parallel society, as you described. That might be an extreme interpretation of reality, but there is certainly so...
March 10, 2018 at 17:36
Rockefeller's "cooperation" was achieved through a web of deception, devious transactions, and crude power. Of course Standard Oil was profitable -- i...
March 10, 2018 at 17:30
Do you really think that ensuring everyone is kept happy is the simplest thing to do? From my experience, keeping even several people happy at the sam...
March 10, 2018 at 17:24
Before I read your post, I had done a quick GooSearch for the percentage of women in mining, and I looked at the same site you posted. Did you notice ...
March 10, 2018 at 17:12
I wasn't trying to suggest that once the masses discover that there is no more gas at the pump, they will at once turn to cannibalism. That will happe...
March 10, 2018 at 00:43
It is always interesting to think about the perfect society, but I agree with T Clark: It is too late for this . At least, it's too late now; but the ...
March 09, 2018 at 23:09
Without the apostrophes one gets ifs, ands, or buts; these spellings may be correct, by typographically they require a second glance.
March 08, 2018 at 04:10
I understand what you are saying, but gazelles and lions are not human, and we should not judge them as if they were humans. Darth, I don't know if an...
March 08, 2018 at 03:38
When humans engage in horrible acts we can, we should, we must judge it, because judgement is part of our world. Hunting antelope may be natural for w...
March 08, 2018 at 03:27
Because barbarism is a human category of experience. Ripping up plants and chewing them to death is the way animals derive energy. It's not subject to...
March 08, 2018 at 03:22