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We live in a mature capitalist economy which has probably reached the end of its phase of dynamic growth. (That doesn't mean that the economy will now...

You can experience your existence because you exist. If you cease to exist you will no longer be a subject, and will experience nothing. Nothings expe...

If the constituent parts of the brain that produce minds hadn't evolved in predecessor animals, we wouldn't have any brains at all. Animals - among th...

Your criticism that students in the US are not being taught understanding and application could well be true. But it's been a long time since I was in...

per your link at Wikipedia.

China isn't a one party state? What are the various parties?

The Germans didn't vote away their power, it was stolen by the Nazi Party.

Motivation is a drive that results in behavior. You are sitting in a car. The car gets uncomfortably hot or cold (depending on where the car is). even...

Why do you want an obese cat? If they get too fat, they have difficulty grooming themselves (like, keeping their nether regions clean). My neighbors' ...

Democracy is inherent good (per the OP) but while good, it isn't the only good system. China, for instance, is not and has not been a democracy. It is...

Children coming out of the minority cultures of poverty fit into the category of "bad parenting" -- except that the parents can't help it. The parents...

This is certainly true for the schools that do a good job of educating about a quarter of the school population -- the schools in affluent, education-...

This is an insightful observation. Prior to the deluge of television in the mid to late 1950s, (which by its nature is more immersive than any earlier...

Actually, a third of adults 25 or older have a bachelors degree or higher. The heart of the "education vision" problem is what are young people going ...

I could have picked "the system" if "the system" meant American society. We can't restrict blame to "the education system" because other big systems a...

Now after. Quite interesting, but qualms... Little pre-school or kindergartener Camille (birth name Sebastian) is totally convinced she is a girl. She...

Ah ha! So, I was wrong about that. ¥@#&!¢? Thank you for popping my error bubble. So, if it isn't used for payment, then what good is the DSM?

And by what theory could gravity be different 250,000,000 years ago? Had Newton overlooked something?

so, before and after. I am going to watch it. Before I do, I'll express the opinion that young children should not be encouraged to pursue ideas wheth...

With respect to language... Your instructions would have made no sense whatsoever to anyone prior to the 1980s. Will it make sense 30 years from now?

Margaret Atwood concludes her Madd Addam trilogy with Fuck. Not to give too much away, but the lab-bred new humans--the one where the guys have very l...

All interesting observations. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) Rant follows. Ought we take the DSM-5 as gospel truth? Sin...

Locke's phrase was "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property". If my memory serves me (it probably doesn't) it was Franklin who suggested that "happ...

I suppose if everybody thought that happiness was a purely interior state that could exist without respect to material factors, then everybody could b...

Damnation by faint praise. That's more like it. >:)

As Ludwig Wittgenstein the Wise said, that which ought not be discussed out loud must be stewed over in silence.

You a sexist? NO! Who would have thought such a thing? You might, on one or two occasions, been just a teensy bit sexist. I don't know, maybe you once...

Actually it wasn't the fuck off bandit. It was a humorless he whom I had hassled by suggesting that he should meet my equally humorless sister. I had ...

I like orange, myself. And with the somewhat faint image of Phoebus Apollo (sun god) being pulled across the sky on his daily journey, yellow/orange/r...

Unfortunately, good posts get ignored. Fortunately, bad posts also get ignored. There is a thing you can do that might help: Quote somebody in your po...

One of the moderators told me he was getting complaints about me from member X. I concluded that I should, could, and would leave member X alone. Igno...

This is true. The Confederate memorials were generally erected well after the civil war during times when the erectors felt like change agents needed ...

This is very true. I've worked in a few places with great morale. Sometimes one can name some factors: new urgent cause to work on, new place to work,...

The thing is about the fallen, unfinished world is that there are people who insist on having annoying opinions (way too conservative, way too liberal...

Enter the "too much of nothing" problem mentioned by Dylan.

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Yes, indeedy. Here are two examples: Liked a lot https://68.media.tumblr.com/79f0b7c2428c21fb9cab9f1ca842cf00/tumblr_ouud4jjvZq1s4quuao1_500.jpg Not l...

So here's the book for you: PAINTING BY NUMBERS: KOMAR AND MELAMID SCIENTIFIC GUIDE TO ART. Using consumer polls, sales and marketing information, var...

It would seem to me that if a person is comfortable with his or her body, doesn't want to change it, doesn't want to take estrogen or testosterone, do...

I'm 70, and most of my life was lived in the darkness and savagery of the pre-Internet age. I am very, very, very glad that the Internet exists. I gre...

One thing that makes art more difficult these days is the investment habits of the 1%. Art sales have become a commodity speculation market. It has no...

From the artist's point of view, I would think that producing excellent, "true" art (by the artist's judgement, at least) is still very difficult. I c...

Piet Mondrian lived between 1872 and 1944. Pre-internet yes, but how "pre-modern" really? Dutch Mondrian lived in a small country with other artists, ...

Which is why many aphasic stroke victims can curse, but can utter nothing else.

And to communicate. Some people have to talk with their hands (and not sign language, exactly) and since the development of writing, some people insis...

Or "go fuck yourself". Clearly language developed very rapidly--we moved from to to to the more grammatically and anatomically complex "go fuck yourse...

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I'd better hurry I guess, Baden raised his axe 8 minutes ago, as of this moment. No, I don't think we should have any rules about slander. First, as f...

The half-dozen transsexuals that i know who take hormones and gained some facial hair and a bit more leanness; or breasts and more roundedness; and go...

It's probably too complicated, and it's been a very long time since I read Soul On Ice.