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What a lord of the flies that old dead horse has become. Yet we keep beating on. (Or should I say beating off? - What a bloody wank!) As against the q...

Is it in any sense confirmable? What would a confirmation look like?

"the long march through the institutions" Widely attributed to Antonio Gramsci. Actually from Rudi Dutschke, circa. 1967. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Full story at WaPo. Anyone know how to get through the paywall? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/

A fascinating exchange: Lemoine : I’m generally assuming that you would like more people at Google to know that you’re sentient. Is that true? LaMDA :...

“We now have machines that can mindlessly generate words, but we haven’t learned how to stop imagining a mind behind them,” Emily Bender, a linguistic...

Thanks, I do.

Genuinely interested in a reference or substantiation for this claim.

Thanks for the quote: "What I'm interested in is the morning after. That is to say: The measure of a successful...revolution is... how will ordinary p...

That's the big question here.

I might add that adsters do play a role in determining the content of television programming. They have the power to withdraw financial support. I can...

Can you expand on this?

Do you have a source for further reading?

Sure, a good part of the problem. But the saturation of society by adsters deepens the hole and offers insidious pseudo-solutions to the hole - what F...

Fair enough.

Is this what you had in mind? https://oonae.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/arendt-and-milgram/ Berkowitz tells us that “Arendt rejected… Milgram’s claim tha...

Sad that their ideology commits them to overlooking the profound humanity of a thinker like Fromm. The banality of ...

I'm familiar with Milgram's famous experiment and conclusions and familiar with Arendt. I'll take a look at the connection. Thanks for the reference.

I suggest reading Edward Bernays and Ernest Dichter (et al) to get a picture of how a culture of consumerism was intentionally created. They're proud ...

:cool:

On false needs and false consciousness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-Dimensional_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consciousness

If you can find some justification for a cultic Supreme Leader in Marx's words, I'm all ears.

All of which is compounded by the insidious influence of advertising.

Your grammar is imprecise: a "relation" can't "presume" something. Only a person can. Some number of persons I don't doubt choose to make the presumpt...

It's imprudent to tell someone what they can and cannot see. The fact is I see that very clearly.

This is a gross understatement of the power of advertising to influence culture. Advertisers have created a culture of consumerism. To make a buck.

Hence: commendable work. If - as appears to be the case - you helped at least one person. I'm not suggesting you solved the problem.

Might as well blame Jesus for the ostentation of the Catholic church and for all the little boys molested by the Pope's meiny. It's the same kind of l...

Glad you're enjoying it. So much kindness and humanity in Fromm's writings - along with some novel and illuminating psychology. I was a bit astonished...

Advertisers were absolutely at the heart of it. Without advertisers there would be no TV as we know it. Without TV there would be no MTV. I assume you...

Difficult to disagree that that's the problem. But it's prudent to accept that the vast majority of folks will always be manipulable. At least until o...

How could one come first? Assuming laws are discoverd, not invented....

Thanks for the informative response. :smile:

In this context the truth is easy: It's wrong to use a grotesquely smily red and yellow clown, an adorable robber and stuffed purple taste bud (Grimac...

Thanks for the thoughtful post. Makes you wonder why Rightists are always sounding the socialism siren. We're already too socialist for the bulk of th...

Commendable work. That can't be pleasant. Unless it's just retirement.

That's okay, don't mind your deleting them. Thanks for stepping in. I'll do my best to hold my tongue in the future. (Not easy..........)

A great thinker and iconoclast - but not a great man, to my view. I confess I use a couple of passages from Zarathustra as a scapular. :wink:

@"baden" @"jamal" Can you get this guy off this thread? His first post referenced Hitler and it's only gone downhill from there. Thank you!

It's a cop-out. We do - because we use political pressure to ensure it gets done. If you understand why you prefer to play on the internet rather than...

...Clearly through such a twisted ideological lens that nothing of Marx's vision landed. In that sense - you haven't read a lick of Marx. Try the link...

Do you blame Jesus for the zillion Christian atrocities - do you blame Jesus for the Westboro Baptist Church? godhatesfags.com Try reading the OP befo...

Ha, right out of Atlas Shrugged. Illuminating parallel. Thanks for the quote.

It's refreshing to see such a humble confession - that you've never read a lick of Marx. This thread is here, in part, to educate silly-willies of you...

If you understand why you don't build said houses (and instead play philosophy on the internet) then you understand why we don't.

Anxiety as linked to self-realization:

From the wiki entry on The Critique of the Gotha Programme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_the_Gotha_Programme#:~:text=The%20Critique%20of%...

On the existential power of boredom and the profound existential need not to be bored:

On the existential need to "effect":