I liked this piece from The Guardian "A world without work is coming – it could be utopia or it could be hell". It touches on a number of the good obs...
No doubt it is. But... It isn't so much what the news media cover as how. Explosions in the wrong place are inherently worthy of coverage. We all need...
It would be helpful if everyone listed their obsessions in their profile. That way one could more efficiently dismiss posters whose obsessions are not...
You didn't give that impression. There are children present who might have fastened on to panaceas like automation or the infinite don't-be-evilness o...
Ah, but if women are responsible for their own equality, a lot of that spilt ink about oppression goes down the drain. My gut feeling is that we would...
That organisms communicate isn't in doubt. Birds, for one, noticeably communicate a lot. Plants communicate -- chemically. They issue simple relevant ...
Great. But it isn't just old fashioned, out-of-date old-leftist-fogies who say the first demand that needs to be met is "Hand over the keys and the ca...
#2 and #3 could be implemented tomorrow - theoretically. The current national representative government (House/Senate) isn't able to wipe it's ass, le...
Maybe I heard this before, don't remember. But I fetched it up on YouTube. It's "hard music" -- one has to attend to it; hear it several times. Think ...
I didn't mean to offend. Or confuse, either. I was in a flippant mood and felt like saying something disparaging about "fine art". Actually, if I were...
"Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work"... Didn't read it. Saying "Post" something-or-other makes it sound like the writer has...
A room full of large, fine oil paintings with heavy wooden frames could be broken up and fed into the fire, keeping away the chill. Adding the origina...
Without a Wrong, or a Right, I don't see how one could settle on one's own decision, never mind settling a dispute with someone else. There has to be ...
The concept of Right and Wrong were flattened out for ardent Nazi Party members, ardent SS operatives, and like kinds: The Fuhrer's wishes are the onl...
Per your link... Only the most philistine slobs would serve a cocktail in a plastic cup. Even if your vodka comes in a plastic bottle and costs pocket...
From the Sydney (AU) Post: Train running over man delayed 90 minutes. Passengers irritated by delay. BTW, it wasn't an accident. IF the train had arri...
SINCE everyone may not be familiar with motte-and-bailey arguments, here is a brief discussion (This is at "Practical Ethics" an Oxford University sit...
And when Henry VIII wasn't divorcing or beheading a non-heir-bearing wife, he was busy burning monasteries -- partly to fulfill the Long Range Landsca...
What is the time of your dividing line between pre-modern and modern? 300 years ago or 3,000? 10,000--back to the time of the first buildings in Jeric...
Well, I don't know... is order maintained by the state actually any worse than order maintained by other power structures--church, corporation, family...
The number of children born "out of wedlock" -- what a quant phrase that has become -- is yet another item in Hilary's basket of deplorables. But... w...
Headline in the New York Times: WORLD WILL END TOMORROW. WOMEN AND MINORITIES TO BE DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED. I don't think anybody has the resourc...
I a No. You should not. It's not healthy for privileged males to feel as bad as relatively privileged feminists would have us feel. That advice, of co...
I didn't listen to the whole talk, but long enough to hear that she has a coherent, reasoned view of history. From her perspective, big dick white mal...
The example provided in the video seems fairly far from ideology and much closer to someone who is in need of a sedative. Winding oneself up that way ...
Animal cells communicate with each other electrically and chemically. Sometimes chemicals "cause" emotions, and sometimes chemicals "communicate" emot...
It depends how fussy one is. In common parlance, a feeling and an emotion are pretty much the same thing. There are some differences: "To feel" is a v...
Not nitpicking at all -- it's a fundamental question. We have been observing each other for a long time, and beginning with guys like Aristotle, we ha...
My thought is that genes do not "give us addictions" in the same way genes give us a disorder like Huntington's disease. Rather, genes shape the way t...
I have often tossed Republicans and Democrats onto one manure pile, but there are differences. Democrats are almost always the party responsible for l...
There were Nazi hunters because the post-war West German government had demonstrated less than an enthusiastic commitment to carrying out the necessar...
"Racism" has become an obsession. Where once there were three or four races, and if Asians didn't like Caucasians, they were "racist". Now if Norwegia...
I think awareness can exist without self-awareness. The frog's eye receives photons; the cornea transmits signals to the frog's brain; the signals are...
While I try to think consistently, it doesn't always happen. (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind? I don't know.) It depends how an...
I was fortunate to escape the baleful influence of decadent continental intellectuals by attending a small state college in the midwest starting in 19...
Post hoc ergo propter hoc? I would be very surprised if milder justice systems cause lower crime rates. Likely there are some other factors that gover...
There is a large class element to Burke's complaint. At the time, (250 years ago) the British Empire was in it's second century of colonizing North Am...
If when we became sentient doesn't matter, only that we are part of the process, that would suggest that the universe was striving toward meaning. Rem...
Are you saying that thinking beings make the universe a meaningful place? But we didn't exist not so very long ago. When did we make the universe mean...
It is a paradox that we find meaning within the meaningless universe. There are no meanings hidden under rocks--or within our heads. We have to create...
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