What goes on in the animal kingdom isn't barbaric -- it is life. But filming the zebra being attacked by several lions (or other animals) and then bei...
Bad, very bad, and the worst things in life are not necessary for the good to exist, and they are not compensation for good things. Visa versa. There ...
Welcome to The Philosophy Forum, Mr. Scoggins down in Big D. Let me hang this around your neck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv3TN8sV1oo First of a...
John Michael Greer, a blogger, ecologist, science fiction author, "Arch Druid" and so forth says this about Marxism: from The Long Descent: A User's G...
British singer Billy Bragg wrote a new version of the Internationale, the worldwide worker's communist anthem: these lines... express the idea that or...
Perhaps not in these hallowed halls one does not hear this, but I hear it in conversations quite often. For instance, if one talks about Syria, someon...
Another problem in people's thinking about foreign policy (among other things) is that they 'personalize the behavior of nations'. "The United States ...
You are asking a deeper question than I may be able to answer. Is it that people can not understand that the US and Iran, for instance, can both pursu...
You've gone to bed, but let me expand a bit on why some think that nations can not be judged by personal, individual standards. A nation may be compos...
This is, of course, an excellent example of "graceless honesty". We had become an imperialistically minded state well before WWII, but after WWII we d...
My main questions: I'm feeling oppositional and obstructive. Many Americans feel superior to many other people. This is typical of people in general. ...
Marx also said that class conflict is one of the features of existing societies: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class ...
Your 25,000th voter doesn't know what the total is, of course. For all he knows, the election IS already decided by many votes. And even if the vote w...
It is. Sort of, in a totally crooked way. Other people make up their statistics, I make up mine. And if you say it with a straight face and with convi...
How so I know? I conducted a survey of 3329 practicing psychopaths (they're listed in the phone book) and asked them if they were happy. 22% said they...
It does thus originate, true, Not to get too fussy, but doesn't "?????" contain a lower case alpha and a lower case iota? That aside, are you from Eng...
He had better hope the jury isn't drawn from Yahoo user lists. But I sort of agree, up to a point. I don't know about girls, but boys certainly fantas...
You are confusing the a-morality and moral impairment of psychopaths with their alleged happiness. Psychopaths are generally not happy; they are also ...
Americans have a right "to pursue happiness"; the constitution doesn't guarantee that anyone will over-take happiness. I have been unhappy, and I have...
It is my understanding that our nuclear missile fleet is fairly old. But presumably they are still in working order, and presumably the nuclear weapon...
There is no arbiter in charge of weighing up and penalizing the actions of empires. Who gave permission to the British, French, Americans, Germans, It...
The Wise Old Sibyl had something for you, but you didn't read the list. There's several there that are quite compatible with indolence: 038. ????? ???...
Which of the 147 Delphic Maxims seems best for you? 001. ???? ??? Follow God 002. ???? ?????? Obey the law 003. ????? ????? Worship the Gods 004. ????...
Yes--that one. The other day I was in an Asics shoe store (Asics is now spelled properly, corrected from 'aesics' ) and this guy -- suppose he was aro...
I don't know, and you don't either. (Default position on any difficult question) Below, "you" is a general reference, not a reference to any particula...
Pasting images from this comic series could get out of hand in no time at all! http://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/postmodernists1.png http://s...
subject/verb agreement error: ...are insults. Pet peeve #20942. unnecessary punctuation error ...they and you. Pet peeve 20943. All true, but then you...
I always read for pleasure, even if it is a book on concentration camps. A well written book which presents the history of the horrible is a pleasure ...
TR says in his introduction on Deviant Art: "Also, I would want you to read everything in my book and not skip past parts that I've already talked abo...
Well, really! A child rapist protector could certainly be an intellectual, even if he just happened to be neither a catholic priest nor a pope. Even a...
but NYC is a great place to be. — Hanover Was Hanover talking about Atlanta or New York? Why would you want to go to a city where everybody knows you?...
[reply="Wayfarer;158550" Great title, "collapse now and avoid the rush" "Going off the grid" is an interesting project. There is a short-of-post-colla...
If James Howard Kunstler doesn't depress you enough, another good writer is John Michael Greer (What's with using all three of one's names--is this a ...
My highest ambition was to be a gad flying parasitical professor. I have managed to achieve Gadfly Parasite Level 17, but I didn't make it into a prof...
Anti-intellectualism... Or both? Or neither? Some periods in history are more intellectually buoyant, ebullient, and productive than others, just as s...
does not compute... does not compute... does not compute... does not compute... does not compute... does not compute... does not compute... does not c...
And oil is the critical resource that will be, one fine day, depleted. Oil powers agriculture; gas fertilizes agriculture; oil powers mining ; oil pow...
Software engineers, on the other hand, are incredibly brilliant. They turn out new products, and new versions of old products that work PERFECTLY, nev...
Yes, this is a bit tricky. For one thing, oil production is driven by price, and the price-production relationship can be chaotic, with big peaks and ...
For a really depressing read, try Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation or The Long Emergency: Surviving the Conver...
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