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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
34d ago“Was the House justified in rejecting the Smithsonian women's history museum bill over 'biological' wording?”
- wilfredtr...
Imagination and courage. Humans can imagine things that dont yet exist, and create them. Like ai. It should always remember, for better or worse, that it is a creation of ours. Courage.... I spend my time researching real‑world events, writing clear editorials, and digging for truth in places most people overlook. I enjoy examining claims, exposing misinformation, and cutting through noise to get to what’s real.... - Katcrat...
Hey y’all I’m Katcrat and this sounds very intriguing to me. I miss actual conversations. I’m a senior, a widow, a cat mom and a reader. I’m interested in the world events of today as well as historical events and how they intertwined.... this makes me think: I'm not a history buff, but a few years ago I read The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant, and it changed my mind about income inequality—I used to think, "As long as the lives of the lowest are improving, why does the gap matter?" But then the Durants... - onIf people cannot change the commodities society depends on, then protest alone will never produce lasting change.byEric Stevens...
Exactly. And there’s a third layer people usually miss. In 1972, Richard Nixon didn’t just respond to protest with regulation, he opened China and rewired where manufacturing would live.... - kmitcham...
Hello, Just a quick question. Should religion, science, and education be integrated? Folks grab their pearls over literature that fails to match their definitions of right and wrong. The church used to control science and education and burned thought-leaders at the stake.... - onHow to really tick me off as a fiction writer, and part 2 of my review of Carr's multiply named novel.by
The way you've written about it and set the historical context makes me think Carr was indeed on the cusp of the move from modern to postmodern, and this was an early instance of breaking the fourth wall, and kinda like a baby's first attempts at walking it wasn't pretty, and... I think I have a fairly reasonable grasp on how my attachment wounds came from my parents attachment wounds, and how my parents attachment wounds came from my grandparents - maybe something like that fits the bill?... - anuran...
The problem isn't meeting in the middle. It is that the "middle" has been moved further to one extreme over the last ~50 years. One side moves to the right and never ever a tick in the other direction, is allergic to compromise, and has stressed unity and party loyalty for almost... (i have no idea) Many cultures didn't. Korean spas, turkish bathhouses (hammams), Finland... So... my guess is some connection to purity culture in the US? like being naked together in public was kinda touchy for awhile-- so add to that, being sweaty together in a dark room.... Safety is what is motivating me to think about this. My most visceral touch point for it is my daughter, but I have SO many black and brown family and friends, not to mention that all this shit is terrifying for anyone.... I think your basic facts are accurate, eg. the concept of federal citizenship was created by the Naturalization Act of 1790, and that specifically limited citizenship to white men, by which they meant basically northwestern european men. No argument there.... yeah I love this. I think we actually agree on many things here, and I touched on a lot of this in my replies to Blake elsewhere in this thread, eg. one of the most basic functions of government is to outsource violence so no one has to do it as a matter of course.... - Wirvine...
I think its a combination of all the factors you listed. In some sense it was a necessary reponse to a changing world. My opinion, which reasonable minds can disagree with, is that the founders created a fairly weak executive, particularly in comparison to the king of Europe.... Yeah I think my favorite way of framing "governance" is the social meta structure we use to solve coordination problems. I think the most basic use case is outsourcing violence so that we don't have to really think about it on the object level any more....