You're right that it has been marketed as success. You noticed every time capitalism is criticized, there's inevitably the line of "it's lifted more p...
No, it isn’t, because China and Vietnam rejected neoliberalism. So your statement to the contrary makes no sense, because it isn’t true. It has nothin...
This may be true for beings, but seems unlikely for being, which is not itself a being. Beings are individual entities, and are numerous. This is a go...
It does matter who pulls the levers. What you're describing is the state being controlled by the capitalists, and so you generalize this to all states...
I think Josh was referring to "use" there, not being. That's the thing -- being is interpreted as presence, meaning the enduring, the constant. Which ...
What evidence? You've already made two claims which are complete misinterpretations. If that's the evidence, I don't blame you for thinking this. But ...
Certainly. Yes indeed. How could it be otherwise? Unless, of course, we're taking "being" to mean something more restricted, like "empirically verifie...
Nothing is being asserted about it. We're questioning what it is -- if anything. Perfectly fair. Being is not treated as a thing. I would also take is...
:rofl: This was great. So only that which is labeled "is"? Oddly enough that's close to the traditional Western view -- although this would be more li...
I prefer "being" rather than "existence," although I do use both occasionally. To say being is eternal or has other properties is a mistake, in my vie...
That's interesting, because it represents the above view rather well -- that of "presence." That which is present before you, as an "encountering." Ev...
This isn't what's being claimed. When the grotesquely bloated defense budget is brought up, it's done so to expose the utter hypocrisy and stupidity o...
The Chinese and Vietnamese rejected neoliberalism. So the example makes little sense. There’s good scholarship on this — Ha Joon Chang is one. For som...
Trump had no policies and no ideology. He was happy to go along with whatever McConnell, Ryan, and the others wanted to do -- reshape the courts for a...
For those with eyes closed, I guess. I believe that power can be justified and legitimate. Some forms of social organization is important -- not neces...
The biggest and most deadly being capitalism, of course — with better propaganda; propaganda that tells people (like you) that the government should b...
It’s not that globalization doesn’t exist. Globalization in itself is not neoliberalism. The national engine was the financialization of the economy. ...
I didn’t say death was sleep. Death can be thought to be like a dreamless sleep. The difference being you don’t wake up. Or picture it as a state of p...
I think we fear pain and the unknown. But if death doesn’t involve pain, and it’s not seen as anything more than a state of pre-birth- or dreamless sl...
This country leans conservative, beyond a doubt. It's our puritanical heritage. NOS is just confused because neoliberalism contains the word "liberal....
That's fine, but recall I said at the beginning that I was not using "interpreting" in this sense -- namely in the dictionary sense. I think perceptio...
Perception. We're always perceiving and, thus, we're always interpreting. It's your perception of the radish, which is interpreting. A bird is interpr...
It's a perception, and perception is a kind of interpreting. All perception. again I think Kant is good here and I'm basically repeating him. This is ...
That's because neoliberalism is not the same as globalization. Neoliberalism is a program involving deregulating industry, cutting taxes, and increasi...
Except neoliberalism is a socioeconomic program that we've been living with for 40 years and that isn't restricted to one party. The policies are de-r...
Clinton and Obama were neoliberals as well, yes. Pretty much. Fascism, socialism, communism (and capitalism) get thrown around all the time by those w...
All the better. Perception is a kind of interpreting. "We tend to think that what we see just depends on what's 'out there,' but the more one studies ...
Yet they liked the New Deal and Keynes -- all liberal policies. Neoliberalism isn't "liberal." Talk about swing and a miss...no substance whatsoever, ...
So he loved the policies and programs that dominated the "Golden Age of Capitalism"? Greatest growth in the 20th century. Etc. Compare to the last 40 ...
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