elemenohpee

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by elemenohpee 14y ago
I'm a marxist as well, so you're preaching to the choir there. I also happen to be an anarchist, and rather than putting laws in place (which would be impossible to enforce), I think the first step to changing these issues is to change the
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
I'm not advocating politeness, I'm advocating for an egalitarian society. Women have historically been less free to express themselves, and sexist jokes and other discriminatory language continue to silence them. Douche was not the correc
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Wow, that's literally insane. Yes, let's see if we can undermine this elegant and stable natural process that has evolved over billions of years so that we can avoid the uncomfortable experience of reexamining the assumptions of our econom
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Yeah, it's still not the best way to put it, it's kind of tautological in itself. Maybe the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy fits better.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
> For most of us, it's just paycheck to paycheck now. Everything is going according to plan. When you see how perfectly all of this lines up with the interests of the plutocrats you just have to wonder to what degree it is conscious co
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
That's what's so twisted about the American Dream™, is that it's the desire for a certain type of individual freedom, but a freedom that is always based on the subjugation of others. It's not a universal freedom, which to me is the only ki
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
That's how I see it too. The article seemed to focus on, yeah you can buy more stuff but stuff doesn't make you happy. Yeah, we know that, what money really buys you is the freedom to pursue your own goals and not be slave to someone else
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
It's quite simple to explain the causality. When you break everything down it eventually comes down to physics (ok so it's not that simple to explain, but it's conceptually simple). However I vehemently deny that we can manipulate genes to
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
No, no, I'm all about the discussion. Shit, this is more to test my ideas than to assert any sort of truth. Maybe another question will get us closer to the root of the issue: Whose agency are we talking about, the individual's, or the gen
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
I've been thinking about that idea as well. Would it make sense to see them less as "useful lies" and more as "self-referential truths", wherein the statement can be either true or false depending on whether or not it is accepted axiomatic
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
I think this misses the point of the article and these types of discussions in general. To me, the value of this perspective is that it takes the ego out of this self-directed narrative, and places it in the proper context as a local manif
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
> Yet the "witch hunt" that seems to permeate through society seems to suggest that they should. Huh, it's almost as if people realize that the legal system is not in line with our ethical system.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
I agree that the buying of political influence is the root problem here, but are there any proposals to deal with it? What are the models that are used in investigating it?
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Not blindly imitating European countries is one thing, being ignorant of their policies and their effects is another. The latter is the case here, and it would take some pretty convoluted rationalization to spin that as "diversity". Indivi
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
I can only assume that you missed the part where I linked to the evidence you said didn't exist?
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
The Einstein quote comes to mind: "We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them." There are a whole host of assumptions that your arguments rest on, from our ability to predict and control non-linear dynam
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
> Just because we happen to be alive for this one? Uh, yeah, that'd be it. What with all the massive extinction events and all, it might be in our interest to minimize the effects.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
But that doesn't stop the ideologues in power from running companies as if it is.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Obviously the circumstances are different, you wouldn't use this as a one-to-one model, but that doesn't mean there aren't things we can learn, and it certainly doesn't justify the scant media coverage. Creditors were left to deal with the
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
They took the exact opposite course during the financial crisis and experts from the IMF and other Nobel laureates have credited that for their remarkable recovery. As our economy continues to flounder, I don't buy that this is something e
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
If they are not, market theory would predict that they would be replaced by entities that are.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model#Case_examples Just because you are ignorant of the evidence doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Your comment doesn't seem to address the idea that I was bringing up, that the media has a role in shaping what people care about rather than being an impartial conduit that is slave to peoples' desires. For example, how much of the attent
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
How would the media know that their viewers don't care about Iceland if they never told their viewers about Iceland in the first place? I don't understand why people insist on using the "shadowy figures gathering in smokey rooms" straw-man,
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Ok, many people think otherwise and have written at length about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery You can't simply label something a category error and call it a day.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Sorry, I wasn't trying to create a straw man, just trying to tease out a hidden premise, although I suppose I could have been less of a dick about it. I think we can all agree that judging people based on things that they have no control ov
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
> How is it any different than the rest of the working world where you can control some things and you can't control others yet your job is to do the best you can with what you can control? So the argument is that since everyone sucks a
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Where did you go to school? How does this happen?
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Hmm, on your last point, assuming the serial computation is done by calculating brain state for each time slice, would this end up being functionally equivalent (if slower) than the parallel brain process? Since from the "brain's" perspect
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
So you think gay people shouldn't act on their feelings?

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