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I used to be attracted to Anarchism/Anarcho-Syndicalism because of its theoretical flexibility (as what initially seemed to me at least) and rejection...

I think both of us may be among the small minority on the Left on de-growth here. But I also think that not only is de-growth undesirable, but that it...

Perhaps you are right about that then. I think anyone who spends a little time engaged with politics can point out a myriad of things what politics is...

I don't see the point of answering how to best conceptualize the categorical term referred to as politics. We all know what it means, and further insi...

I spend virtually all my time in the past 2 years on politics these days, in particular North Korea peace issues because that's what I've been involve...

Trump's new advisor on National Security. We're doomed https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/22/17153338/john-bolton-national-security-adviser-trump-hr-mcm...

Yes, this is a pretty good primer on the subject and explanation: https://www.epi.org/publication/what-is-the-gender-pay-gap-and-is-it-real/

"Before they got power, they wrote nicely, just like modern Leftists do." Not really, have you read what Lenin, Stalin, and Mao said and did before th...

Conservatives like to blame the victims to distract away from institutions, social organizations, or actions by powerful people. What he's saying here...

I'm a defender of jargon, which can most effectively be used either sparingly or bountifully depending on the case. I think there's a clear difference...

"I wonder whose psychological theories of archetypes might be ‘falsifiable’?" My personal opinion is that there are no such psychological theories of ...

Maybe, but an article length seems to me as having to make do as introductions of what's wrong with someone's analysis.

New article on Jordan Peterson by Nathan Robinson that's thorough: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve

Try this https://www.amazon.com/Just-Arguments-Important-Western-Philosophy/dp/144433638X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1520530780&sr=8-3&keywords=philosophy...

I'm skeptical of the rise of China. They're the best candidate for sure, but China has so many internal problems and the way it assimilated itself int...

I'm probably closer to moral anti-realism (they're not real in the sense that atoms and molecules are real) though I don't think that encapsulates my ...

Personally I think he should have been more careful, but I'm sympathetic to his support for free speech, which is apparently unpopular among the Left ...

Yeah he has a very strict standard of supporting Free Speech. There are people who think his involvement in the affair was naive, but the whole busine...

Erik "Some clearly do buy into the idea of American exceptionalism, but it doesn't seem nearly as pervasive as it once was." The stronger version is l...

Going over Chomsky's political work is really really broad.....so here are my recommendations: Read this book, and then the following articles (back a...

I think SophistiCat is right when it comes to the moral arguments he's making, I'm not sympathetic to the responses he's been getting here. But politi...

I don't care what position he criticizes from, only that they're valid or invalid, and political perspectives don't come along an X-Axis for god's sak...

I think we should just drop the term political correctness and just call it for what it is, unwillingness to respond properly to unpopular opinions. O...

Yeah I think that his hyper modularity that stems from his version of evolutionary psychology is false, the brain seems to functions as a highly distr...

Pinker's best times was in the 90's, whatever severe disagreements one may have with him (my main beef is that he is committed to evolutionary psychol...

My thinking is it's not just about guns, but how American Conservatives think about the notion of security in general. "The leftover consequences on o...

Personally I find it unpleasant to think about living in a society where everybody is encouraged to hold guns to feel secure, and if I happen to leave...

The Gun "Debate" is like the Abortion "Debate" Everyone's heard all the arguments, and whether or not one side is more rational than the other, it's a...

I recognize this partly as an empirical question, you can't possibly say what the best possible outcome would be for sure if you haven't tried them an...

Personally I agree with Mill, but even if you don't and are singularly focused on dominating over views you disagree with, I just find odd the quick a...

Doubt needs grounds for justification, just like making confident claims. Just the fact that we probably got many things wrong from a position of epis...

I general sympathize with this article's exposition on the matter, I just don't think any amount of police training will help significantly to change ...

Personally I care more about free speech as a principle and its social benefits (benefits that protect those most vulnerable, which include activists)...

I don't think the JFK Assassination really changes anything of how we understand history or the mountain of evidence of what we already know U.S. inte...

Sanders is consistently the most popular and respected politician in America long after the election while Hillary Clinton is dreadfully unpopular. Wi...

Really? It makes conservatives go away? That's not what I would predict. What I would predict is that first, it would likely be that initially no one ...

I don't have the same attitudes towards replacing social security with UBI. It is true that government handed cash has been shown for people to use it...

I've been interested in Jackendoff's work, the analysis in here is something to look into.

I think you're really wasting your time with Trump Supporters, or Hillary Supporters. They really could care less and will go through every mental-gym...

Wasn't Baden or someone else here a linguistics PHD? I recall someone in PF specializing in it.

Pro-Gun Culture in America is really sick is all I can say, it only makes sense to those who live here.

The best way to learn about Chomsky's work is to read in this order: 1. Quick Look at Political Views of Chomsky from his Main Wikipedia page (cites f...

Take a look at Brian Leiter's Nietzsche on Morality along with Simon May's work, especially, Nietzsche's Ethics and his War on "Morality" Walter Kaufm...

I sent you some recommendations through PM, check your inbox.

Massimo Pigliucci has a blog dedicated for Stoicism that you can shift through, and also has a list of recommendation of books for Stoicism: https://h...

I often disagree with the economist Herbert Gintis, but he gave a pretty solid answer I think: "The government is an institutional apparatus that inte...

There was no line in which we crossed to enter a post-truth stage. We have always been hugely consumed by lies, motives to dismiss evidence, inclined ...

Saying that X is very bad, does many if not most of the same things as Y, and is therefore inadequate (thus why I opposed Hillary Clinton and supporte...

Yeah I never denied Hillary's fracking commitments, that's quite a twisting of words, nor did I deny anything about Obama's imperialism. Your claim is...

Oh god not this nonsense again. There are obvious differences in the frequency & degree to which Centrist parties support Right-Wing Policies and a Co...