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Ricardoc

['Member']Joined: April 24, 2019 at 03:49Last active: April 30, 2019 at 09:212 discussions13 comments
Location: Turkey, Near the Syrian border

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Retired English teacher originally from the West of England . Linguist, history fanatic, rugby and cricket fan, socialist, agnostic, family man..

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Anyone but Nietsche and French post-modernists, though Baudrillard is interesting.

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Post Modernism

April 24, 2019 at 04:30 50 comments Politics and Current Affairs

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In: Do greedy capitalists do God's work?  — view comment
Oh, those who are unaware of history are bound to repeat its mistakes. - Santayana
April 28, 2019 at 09:58
In: Do greedy capitalists do God's work?  — view comment
OK, thanks, but what it is about Judeo Christian culture that leads to ?ndustrial capitalism? It seems to me you are putting the cart before the horse...
April 28, 2019 at 05:07
In: Do greedy capitalists do God's work?  — view comment
Yeah, but you'd have to be a monk to come out with that kind of tosh. What is the difference between work and play? (Postmodernism for beginners, page...
April 28, 2019 at 01:19
In: Do greedy capitalists do God's work?  — view comment
No it ain't. There is so much wrong with this, I don't know where to start. Check out the salt trade in Africa to begin, then explain what you mean by...
April 28, 2019 at 01:17
In: Do greedy capitalists do God's work?  — view comment
. Given that what you say as true, of which I am not convinced, you miss the point. This is not about bricks and mortar. It is about people going from...
April 27, 2019 at 23:27
In: Why do atheists ask for evidence of God, when there is clearly no such evidence?  — view comment
I guess you're a septic - and like most septics, wrong.
April 27, 2019 at 17:51
In: Do greedy capitalists do God's work?  — view comment
Nah, keep the suckers quiet by providing them with hopes for the after-life when there is no hope in this one.
April 27, 2019 at 16:51
In: Why do atheists ask for evidence of God, when there is clearly no such evidence?  — view comment
If you have ever taken LSD, you will never be certain of your perceptions again. In the words of the Greek rationalists, your senses can be great liar...
April 27, 2019 at 15:21
In: The poor and Capitalism?  — view comment
I alwys laugh till tears roll down my goiter when I read yanks discussing Marxism. Conversation I had with a Bircher Granny in Lake Forest, Illinois. ...
April 27, 2019 at 14:34
In: Post Modernism  — view comment
Foucault is best quoted but never read., Has anyone actually finished a book by Derrida? (Cross out 'finished'.)
April 25, 2019 at 18:22
In: Post Modernism  — view comment
The Sokall affair I have come across. I know exactly exactly why it happened, too. In ?ts passion for deconstruction and getting away from anything re...
April 25, 2019 at 12:19
In: Post Modernism  — view comment
The Ag people had real shit to deal with, so didn't need to cook up synthetic forms of BS. Yeah, absolutely. My mother trained in the sixties, I in th...
April 25, 2019 at 02:38
In: Post Modernism  — view comment
My, this thread is full of liberal naivete. It's as though George Carlin never lived. 1) As my mother used to say about Mussolini. 'I was there', and ...
April 25, 2019 at 01:51
In: Post Modernism  — view comment
Absolutely!! Great answers, guys, but let me draw an unobvious parallel. If you study biblical history, you have problem in terns of determining what ...
April 24, 2019 at 08:35
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