When and by whom were credit default swaps ever regulated? My understanding was that CDS were outside regulation jurisdictions (in practice, if not by...
I would like to know more about "the brief window when philosophy could have replaced religion as the glue of society". This is how Alasdair MacIntyre...
Borrowing from the authors book title, "“Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy”, It's safe to say that Socrates would have fou...
A lot of the western lands on which sagebrush rebellions might flourish are "marginal" lands in terms of their ability to recover from exploitation. T...
Belief about God is entirely possible. Knowledge about God is not possible. Believers can have no more knowledge about God than atheists can have. Man...
If historians 500 to 1000 years from now are worth their salt, they will understand what we were up against in the 21st century. They would understand...
I like Chomsky. My statement about his not offering solutions was more or less from the horse's mouth at a talk he gave some years back (like... 1990?...
Well, once one has grabbed the bull by the tail and faced the situation, it's either accept it or let go of the tail. The pursuit of national interest...
Are all governments "corrupt, hypocritical, and amoral"? I don't think so. There is the difficult issue of "governments as mega-institutions" which ta...
*** EXTRA *** EXTRA *** READ ALL ABOUT IT *** Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says The father of the billionaires Charles...
Didn't Mao say, "Let a thousand flowers bloom"? Meaning, let there be many new approaches. He doesn't seem to have followed that idea real closely, bu...
That's Chomsky's problem: One you have decreed that all governments are corrupt, hypocritical, and amoral, where do you go from there? He doesn't like...
Good link. Thanks. Fairly extreme views are presented by media at times, and sometimes these poorly represent reality. For instance, declines in the D...
The use of the words "tolerance" "toleration" and tolerate have had diverse careers in the last 200 years: /uploads/resized/files/l8/q2doykefhzjkswol....
Now, now, you're just being silly. I hope. Idealism isn't the same thing as fanaticism.*** Fanatics have an odor of mania and possession about them (s...
I assumed that the author of the Guardian article was referencing the effect of ideology of those who consumed it. So, Nazi ideology didn't prevent so...
I think Agares-Tretiak (above) is right when he describes paleoconservatives as being broadly anti-government, even including defense spending which i...
The Quora definition is more precise. It does seem to me that the 'flavor of neoliberalism' is tart-to-bitter, if one isn't a neoliberal, and sweet as...
The "militiamen", ranchers, rural hicks, private-property fetishists, whatever the hell they are, represent a strong strand of American ideology that ...
If one is employed, recessions--even depressions--are not catastrophic. 75% of the workforce was employed during the great depression of the 1930s, an...
It may, or it may not. Depends on the experience, and depends on what one says about it. You have perhaps heard someone describe their experience and ...
The United States isn't a 'fake economy'. Economic activity is as real here as it is anywhere else. We produce, manufacture, buy, sell, consume. Real ...
The liberal left (LL) tends to be more permissive about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. The conservative right (CR) is much more restrictive about sex,...
There are about 100 members. We are about 3 months old. Rather than a syndrome, we're still in the pro dromo stage. We are past the beginning; we have...
I haven't seen this Allen movie, though I probably should. It looks pretty good. I've like most of his movies. When reading or viewing fiction, it can...
All human beings have a tendency to being hypocrites, liars, thieves, knaves, scoundrels, and politicians holding double standards. It just goes with ...
If only it was for only the last 8 years. Purchasing power, wages, benefits, and assets (cash, cars, homes -- personal property) of the working class ...
Stock is a strange substance. If you buy stock in my new company, Dante's Dildo Delights (stock market abbreviation DDD) you have invested in the comp...
LANDRU: I'M WARNING YOU... WARNING: We are on the same side here. Your inequality link doesn't contradict what I was saying. Working class people CAN ...
No. I don't think we are having an economic crash right now. Separate out the next economic crisis from fluctuations in the stock market There is no e...
After carefully reviewing everyone's statements, and after extensive research and reflection, I have arrived at an answer to the question Is my happin...
It usually comes as a harsh and dreadful shock to many heterosexuals, but not all gay men are clothes horses, accomplished interior decorators, neatni...
Some bases for the claim that the unexamined life is worth living… 1. Theological God created man, and in the act of creation something ‘in his own im...
Hanover, Far away from being ‘le snob” I am definitely ‘le slob’ when it comes to my wardrobe. Daily wear is low fashion Lee denim jeans, sweatshirts,...
Cue the schmaltziest crooner on earth singing "Feelings, wo-o-o feelings, Wo-o-o, feelings again in my arms"... snivel, snivel, sob, sob. Fetch the Kl...
I don't own any shares in this group out west, but why do call them "welfare ranchers"? Most farmers receive some kind of government benefit, either f...
Quite possibly the rich and powerful live unexamined lives. I actually don't know any of these people. Maybe they hire somebody to examine their lives...
Please prepare your best kale salad; pack it up nicely, and mail it to me. We'll see whether it gets stale or not. Take your best shot at cooking some...
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