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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a society disagrees on what is good, should it aim to find one answer together or protect people's right to keep disagreeing?”
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American aristocracy could learn some things from the old world
A big American founding myth is that we eliminated the aristocracy from our government, but the real American innovation is making it much easier to join the aristocracy starting as an outsider. Sure, great. A little closer to meritocracy, one hopes.... Well, just to calibrate, I find it plausible that a literally random lottery for all high offices would be an improvement. Maybe with some very basic inclusion criteria, so that every election cycle we get a basically normal person to just fuck around and find out.... Open Question Aug 26: Does a shadow cabal run the world?
Hey all, We've been asking philosophical questions that don't dive into the normal polarization party lines. Partly bc we don't want to do that, partly bc I dont want to attention monger with divisive content.... - on“Noospheric bioregioning” — roots down, branches and leaves up. Bioregionality is an important piece of the puzzle, but I have also heard leaders like Joe Brewer argue that culture is only a subset of biology. It isn’t. How else to account for the “networked” aspect which is so clearly happening? How else would I be able to listen to a Joe Brewer podcast when I don’t live in the same bioregion? So better to think of networked bioregioning or “noospheric bioregionality”, imo. Socio-cultural systems are more like “intra-biological” items than mere subsets of, or reducible to, biology.by
Folks involved in the "noospheric bioregioning" are positioning themselves as distinct from "network states", sometimes using the language of "network nation".... - on🔥 America lifted billions out of poverty through liberty and free enterprise. Socialism dragged entire nations into hell. Why is the Democratic Socialist movement still growing here?byJade Lazlow...
I think what we're seeing with the increase in Democratic Socialism is a response to Capitalism that isn't serving everyone. Any political and economic system has the potential to benefit society or to exploit it.... Politics
People who deny that everything is political want to bury their heads in the soil and act like their actions don’t have consequences, as if they live in a vacuum.... 👁️ What happens when the people who write the rules can never be voted out? https://www.undergroundusa.com/p/the-fabian-society-from-london-to #DeepState #FabianSociety #AdministrativeState #Gradualism #BureaucraticPower... They're examples of attempts at communism, which is as close as a state has ever gotten. The reason people equate them with communism is because they all said "we're going for communism!" No state has ever said "We're going for communism!" and then achieved communism, which to... - Azzar10...
Why do people believe that State (controlled) Capitalism was Socialism?
Most people posting anywhere online seem to believe that the old USSR; present day China; Vietnam; Cuba & etc. are all somehow good examples of communism, when, if you actually study their socio-economic and political make-up, it is clear that these nations are/were actually, by... - Kristi...
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- onToday I was listening to Cinderella and thinking about Prince Charming as an unconscious archetype/rolemodel for young boys. There are lots of stories about how a girl becomes a princess and worthy queen, lots about how a ruffian boy becomes worthy of being a king.by
Additionally, after I finished Zizek's Absolute Recoil today, a somewhat cynical perspective might be: dialectics leads to an absolute reflection or turning point: Thesis: Tyrant Antithesis: Rebell Turning Point: Rebell King Antithesis: Absorption of Power New Identity:... - Serpardum...
- lightseeker...
2day, I think you've identified the central problem: objective truth does not necessarily require a human institution to create, possess, or declare it. If truth is objective, it is true whether or not an institution recognizes it.... - Paulleverich...
I agree completely. And being me, I can’t help but ask the uncomfortable question: why is the information so abundant, and what are the “keepers” actually hoping to achieve?... society and culture
You can believe the tax code should ask more of extreme wealth without believing the wealthy are villains — and you can defend a billionaire’s character without opposing taxes on billionaires....