Kind of ethnocentric of me. The overwhelming majority of people who are living under the global capitalist system--and the number who have managed to ...
I can't find it right now, but I read a column a few months ago that said the opposite: it is the highly-educated elites who keep everything running. ...
Personally, I think that the people we do not heed enough are cultural anthropologists. Logic is a highly specialized science. If you want leaders, vo...
Is that why Ken Wilber is said to be a New Age quack? Because he doesn't go along with what the establishment holds in the highest esteem? Or is there...
If culture is humans' adaptation to their environment, it makes sense that subjective cognitive material such as where one left his keys could be comp...
In the big college town where I live I have seen women's college basketball go from being barely on anybody's radar to being a regular sports page cov...
"Global society constitutes a system of inexpressible complexity. It is like a huge central nervous system in which ‘social neurons’ (i.e. people) int...
Also, I often discover books by other thinkers in which Ken Wilber's thinking is in agreement with the author's and is cited for support. Have those w...
I would wager every dollar that I am worth that something far fetched could be found in the work of many mainstream intellectuals. Seeing something fa...
When people are on a crusade to do things like destroy "the patriarchy", it won't do the job for them at all to say "Let's mind our manners". On the c...
One can have pleasure without being a capitalist consumer. Taking in a sunrise is one example. Being a capitalist consumer is a lot of stress and head...
It's not just work. Before people can go through all that inanity in the workplace there has to be consumer demand for the products and services being...
"Csikszentmihalyi writes: An autotelic person needs few material possessions and little entertainment, comfort, power, or fame because so much of what...
No. It is apples and oranges, not varying degrees of the same thing. Your personal attitude towards it contributes nothing to resolving the issue. It ...
"It's a fine line between, "You look nice today," "You look nice today" with a leering grin and an ogling chest-level stare, and “You look nice today”...
I am beginning to see a pattern. It seems like whenever you respond directly to me we get a straw man or something else that misses the point. I think...
The point that I am trying to make is that the problem is the supply of money exceeding the value of existing goods and services. To pay dividends to ...
"Kipnis also notes that the concept of sexual harassment has expanded to cover things like dirty jokes in the workplace. "So that's where it's both in...
Money is just a medium of exchange. Unless every transaction is made through bartering--something not possible in the complex globalized economy we ha...
If somebody can't walk due to a broken leg he/she still practices locomotion in the same way--moving from the kitchen to the dining room after cooking...
I think that the way this thread has unfolded greatly supports the thesis that inspired its conception: Enlightenment progress is being reversed, and ...
That is not what I said. I said that they often seem to be planned well in advance . Anybody who more than casually keeps up with politics and current...
The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that corporations are persons with rights; that, I believe, monetary contributions to politicians are...
Your subjective feelings are irrelevant. The question is: is owning a gun for one's personal protection a right? This thread is about individuals' rig...
Completely irrelevant. You asked if the people being shot all of the time are not part of the oppressed and vulnerable. I pointed out that it is the p...
It is the police who are shooting those people a lot of the time. It is those police shootings--and police brutality without guns like in the case of ...
People should be incarcerated for possessing a firearm? Or just fined? Manufacturing firearms other than for the purpose of supplying the police and m...
Our individual and collective intellectual experiences are really just a big, long-running conversation over many millennia and across the globe. We d...
"Diseases caused by pollution were responsible in 2015 for an estimated 9 million premature deaths -- 16% of all deaths worldwide -- three times more ...
I left out violence against ecosystems. Maybe an accounting of all violence past and present would show that the Industrial Revolution has been the mo...
"Yet the current rate of firearm violence is still far lower than in 1993, when the rate was 6.21 such deaths per 100,000 people, compared with 3.4 in...
I think that you are applying to me what other people have said. I never said anything about how violent the U.S. is compared to other places. I asked...
According to what I read the other night, the rate of gun-related deaths in the U.S. has declined significantly over the past 20 years. There has been...
He wants or needs something, but he can't supply it himself. Just because people withdraw from, say, the market for cauliflower does not mean that the...
I know. I'm? a picky writer, I guess. Using the word "externalities" did not feel like it would have the desired effect. If chicken is produced in the...
Oversimplification. If you want a brief source that tells you a lot of the story, take a few minutes to read A history of why the US is the only rich ...
"However, just as court-ordered child support does not make sense when a woman goes to a sperm bank and obtains sperm from a donor who has not agreed ...
Here is an actual case: "DeCrow raised eyebrows in 1981 when she served as defense counsel to Frank Serpico, the former New York detective and whistle...
As far as I know, every scholar interested in the topic traces "development"--you know, Third World development; the policies, programs, interventions...
Coincidentally, I was discussing that a few hours ago with somebody. I said that liberals/progressives/Democrats are spending their energy and other r...
I think that that is misleading. I would say "moved completely beyond reason". Or was voting for the same party every election based on your sex/gende...
I don't see anything in the column that suggests that there has been some rupture from rationality and leap to "completely post rational". I see the c...
I believe that Christopher Lasch diagnosed all of it in The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy--published in 1996. Everybody else--inc...
I think that "consume less" misses the point. The prices of many--and maybe all--of the commodities that are consumed in the major markets for consump...
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