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You must have misunderstood. I’m saying anti P.C. tend to be the less well off. The poorer majority. Scapegoating, distraction from the causes of thei...

the point is not that P.C. censoriousness is utterly blameless but that it is a side effect of a dirty political economic climate. And in spite of the...

P.C. Wouldn’t be perceived as a problem if the big money hadn’t pushed Reagan/Thatcher policies that vastly shrank the middle class. Censorious P.C. i...

to sum up my thoughts, the global billionaire mafia are hoping the people they have made poor by loudly pushing siphon up economic policies as if they...

Given the voice if anti P.C. is far shriller, louder, and more powerful, and the shut-them-down P.C. contingent is a small, youthful minority, and the...

Yes, God gets inserted into the universe to make us matter, but given the brief tenure of human life in relation to other life on earth and more broad...

If you take as a given that God is a necessary being - I'd guess the 3 major types of monotheism take God as a necessary being and theologians in each...

Retinal images are 2D. We perceive in 3D and no it’s not just because of stereoscopic vision. People have to learn to see and when they have sight tro...

You ask Neither. Except perhaps in the case of the fleecing of the flock by those American consumerist mega churches. But not because science has all ...

In a nutshell: Why do people mistrust the idea that we are thoroughly socially informed to the point of denying it, even given that it's obvious and c...

Our flexibility in making use of cultural tools is what distinguishes us from other animals. They copy, we practice and improve.

Merlin Donald's approach is to see culture evolving in stages that have ultimately allowed humans an open-ended repertoire of behaviours. He draws fro...

Even before tools there were hierarchies and related common understandings, danger cries, etc. Any social animal has a culture.

if by “the brain comes first” you mean as a necessary condition of there being culture at all, then who would disagree? On the other had if your view ...

Brains are a necessary but not sufficient condition for the evolution of culture. There is no ground zero for culture. All animals learn and social an...

Also dogs are evolved from wolves and came into existence through being domesticated over the course of about 40k years. They wouldn’t have existed wi...

It’s not mere coincidence if food availability has an effect on survival rates an on what genes are more likely to be passed on. I’m saying there is g...

of course you are right in that respect. Also false beliefs do have an effect, not the one we believe they have. Anti-Vax for instance. Here’s a link ...

I don't think you can always separate memes from genetic influence - how about "goat's milk is good for everyone" This affected genes that influence a...

Quite. Here is an interesting talk on the matter for anyone who is interested. https://vimeo.com/157414065. Prof Donald is not particularly charismati...

I think you should read more. Try Merlin Donald's A Mind So Rare or perhaps try your like with a search like this one at google scholar: https://www.g...

I don't see that you have provided any supporting claims, hence "naysaying". Meanwhile, you have not yet explained what a non-socialized human would l...

No, you’re merely naysaying and as I’ve said in the OP I’m not interested in disputing the science ( neuro paleontology and other areas of research), ...

Your assertions are thoroughly missing the perspective I’m sharing. If it weren’t for the ages of civilization behind you, which informed your upbring...

Yes, the brain would work but the person would be intellectually maimed until rehabilitated, which is sometimes not possible. https://www.youtube.com/...

OK before we get there, consider it like this: Your brain wouldn't work without the "cultural software" that gets installed as you grow, the cultural ...

Nice OP. But are you an ontological dualist or just think we need to look at the bigger picture?

Thanks for the timely excerpt and link. What strikes me about a lot of this activity is the pure pedantry of it all. I don't know about you but 80% of...

If you're of a certain age and avoid Fox news, you wouldn't think that all terrorists were jihadis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_in...

About that link between endless ranting about PC, beloved of the far right... Ignore it and make it about me being myself, if you like. Not surprised ...

Jordanetics: A Journey Into the Mind of Humanity's Greatest Thinker (2018) ISBN 978-952-7065-69-3

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/jordan-peterson-canadian-deference.html "It is worth remembering that Mr. Peterson can be more accurately d...

The other side, if you're prepared to stomach it at this point: https://www.thepostmillennial.com/major-new-zealand-book-store-bans-jordan-petersons-b...

oops https://hungarytoday.hu/orban-meets-jordan-peterson-in-budapest/

This came up on a social media feed. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/29/criminalizing-compassion-trial-begins-humanitarian-facing-20-years-p...

sure and what inspires that in your view?

I think we have a different interpretation of “concerns about PC” . They’re overblown because there are far more pressing issues than PC threats to fr...

Ugh. It's the opposite. Concerns about PC have been leveraged by the far right IF those digesting social media accounts do so in McCarthyist spirit. S...

There's something else going on here as well. For lack of words is a misunderstanding of nuance in favour of a pedantic reductionism. (Both in SP and ...

You might be confusing me or Maw with I like sushi here. No. For the third or fourth time, here is the position: And here is how it has been addressed...

:cool: Yes, you are right, sadly. Bannon, Trump's former right hand man, is behind a lot of it. Koch brothers as well. But I am sure there are also ma...

Yes, and they are borne out to my satisfaction by a wealth of scholarly critique and observations of his videos. Meanwhile, no one has yet answered th...

Yes, Marxism is one paradigm through which to view the world. The default that is not going to help us, however, is the position that treats society a...

IMHO, JP is a loon. So I have to wonder why he has so many fans, when his scholarship has been resoundingly critiqued. There are a number of sane arti...

It's not sensationalism. You've drunk the KoolAid. No point in the discussion.

You're clutching at straws. I'm not sure why you're not seeing that the point of this is not whether or not JP withdrew his plans for a website attemp...

From the article ssu quoted: "In a YouTube video posted to his personal account, he highlighted English literature, anthropology, sociology, women’s s...

Irrelevant to the main point.

Nothing convoluted about trying to avoid racist and sexist language. Several researchers in the field would disagree with you. Here's a reading list i...