My point was that Europe also influences the US. It's a two-way street. Least we forget, fascism was born in Europe for instance, and all these white ...
Fascism is not a hard-to-understand idea. It's just totalitarian hegelian rhetoric. It has not depth, it's all shiny mirrors. Which does not mean that...
I never believed in any exceptionalism and am not saying Americans are magically removed from the human race's problems or America built on some shiny...
Yes of course. There were a few great American leaders before, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, etc. JFK in my opinion was of the same great American alloy. ...
Well, there was the great generation, the folks who fought and won in WW2. Those guys basically saved the world. Now their descendents doom the world,...
What I find truly tragic is that a nation which was one the smartest and most benevolent on Earth has been dumbed down to such a level of stupidity an...
There are far worse tragedies in this world. I see this one more as a ‘what did they except’ kind of tragedy, like when a drunken fool tries to walk o...
There Is No 'Peaceful Transition' Molly Osberg for Jezebel.com An hour ago This morning I woke up and immediately turned on the radio, something I do ...
It was certainly a person using violence for political gain, aka a terrorist or if you prefer, an old style fascist. And of course it’s logical from t...
What We Get Wrong About America’s Crisis of Democracy The interesting question is not what causes authoritarianism but what has ever suspended it. By ...
I agree. The phrase is self-contradictory. To « see » is to extract, to translate, to interpret, and therefore it implies a certain disturbance and in...
I’ve read What is Fascism by Mussolini, and Technique du Coup d’Etat by Malaparte, written when he was still a fascist. One thing you gotta give to Mu...
If this were the case, a conversation between two folks would be equivalent to a radio tuned to (say) the weather report making noise next to a radio ...
I don’t know much about string theory but IF it cannot possibly be falsified, then I agree it is not a scientific theory. The problem with unfalsifiab...
Like a rotten corpse can be brought back to life, in principle. All you have to do is convince the bacteria eating it to work backward in time, deprol...
Thermodynamics teach that information can be lost, is in practice lost all the time, and thus that some events are irreversible. When you burn a book ...
This is the first day of my life I swear I was born right in the doorway I went out in the rain Suddenly everything changed They're spreadin' blankets...
This essay tries to define agency in physical terms: Agency in Physics, by Carlo Rovelli https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.05300.pdf Also worth checking the ...
Why white? Why male, even? Not saying that these adjectives don’t work here, they do, but why do people not call ‘incels’ those young females who neve...
People are easier to see than atoms and neutrinos, evidently. It depends. But as a general rule, the map is always at a variance with the territory, a...
In its relation to ourselves and in our relation to it, yes. But we can’t say much about the world as it is in itself. If you assume that you know the...
I agree with the begining of this quote, of course. The hypothesis of a world independent of what we think or perceive of it is fundamental to explain...
I wish the Scots would do so, but won’t bet on it. Economically, it could work out for them fine IF they are given a quick EU accession path and I bel...
A possible interpretation is that the artist lends us his eyes to see the world in a new way, more meaningful, more beautiful than the way we usually ...
It’s one of many good stories in a stupendous graphic novel by Italian Fabrizio Dori, called Il Dio Vagabondo (the Vagrant God). I don’t think it has ...
I prefer the version of Fabrizio Dori in Le Dieu Vagabond (The Wandering God), which tells the story of Eustis, a Greek god, a satire to be precise, f...
The point is that you cannot account for something as simple as a disagreement if we all see and know the world ‘as it is’. For there is only one worl...
Right, and you never saw an optical illusion or perceived something wrongly in your entire life so you are confident in the total accuracy of your sen...
No need to apologise, it’s my fault for not noticing how old this thread was. Easy: you read it and then you forget it. :-) I’m only half joking. In m...
Good intuition. I would only rephrase slightly: there are certain ways things have to be in order to EMERGE. Mathematics are heuristic. They describe ...
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