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Enco, that was funny. I don’t think it was wokeism.

I made enough to buy a few of those ponies but tomorrow i may lose half a dozen.

Reg

So does this mean Pope Leo XIV will treat the Laity as numbers?

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Finally some white smoke……I was so nervous. Phew!! This guy has a Degree in Math!!

And in fairy tales. Imagine if a pope got elected and then declared; “Sorry folks, it’s all bullshit!”

Jake,

Before you celebrate your winnings, just know that the mind-virus of Wokeism has gone zoonotic, from homo sapiens to equine:

And like all religion, Wokeism poisons everything, including cosmetic ads.

Mister Ed, Esquire will be in touch. 🎠

Finally some white smoke……I was so nervous.  Phew!! This guy has a Degree in Math!!

 If it had not been for the ancient Jews of Israel no Christianity or Islam. How can anyone say what would have filled the void? Some other nonsense but would it have been more tolerant or rational?

I doubt it. The ancient Aztecs sacrificed their children to appease. Practiced slavery as well. Attila The Hun did not follow YHWH. You didn’t wanna…[Read more]

Eyes of Viktoria a horse i bet at 12 years old who only came on to make board and not win at Suffolk Downs. Poor lady. Brave and like so many brave in an uncaring universe are defeated and the common notion of a just world is laid bankrupt. The Muslim terrorist who beheaded journalist Perlman reported dead as India strikes Muslim Pakistan which…[Read more]

Simon,

Individuality is related to freedom. The British believe in individuality, or at least, it’s celebrated alongside conformity.

Obviously not celebrated equally when the government tells people to think before they post on social media.

Strega,

She was in a classroom around age twelve, and the class was required to write the one word they felt typified Americans. Everyone else wrote “Individuality”, and she wrote “Conformity” 🙂

This isn’t a country that celebrates individualism. We would be looking at the conformists to introduce new education programs promoting individua…

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Jake,

loaded question number one. Not gonna address the union secured and tenured part. I will just say in general our compulsory education generally fails in that regard. Occasionally a teacher of unusual perspicuity and concern makes a difference. In general however it is closer to all in all just another brick in the wall.

I wasn’t meaning…[Read more]

@_Robert_  Put you and her on an 8:30 AM train and it is a completely different picture…

I agree and it usually was. I had (have) no problem with anyone being a goth. I am all for people expressing their own individuality, especially with a subversive or non-conformist undertone towards “the system”.  I lived in a squat house with 12 people f…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@strega – Everyone else wrote “Individuality”, and she wrote “Conformity”. I had a summer relationship with a goth girl in the mid 1980’s. My style at the time (if style is the word to use) was t-shirt, jeans, sneakers and a packet of Rizla. She was full goth, all the time. She was trying to persuade me to “change…

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@Strega – Everyone else wrote “Individuality”, and she wrote “Conformity”.

I had a summer relationship with a goth girl in the mid 1980’s. My style at the time (if style is the word to use) was t-shirt, jeans, sneakers and a packet of Rizla. She was full goth, all the time. She was trying to persuade me to “change my lifestyle choices” or whateve…[Read more]

I went for an end of term dinner in an Elementary School in the USA for some relations who were probably about ages 910  at the time. I don’t recall the menu but I will always remember the notice at the front entrance over the flowerbeds. It read “No firearms beyond this point”.

The most common reply I get from ChatGPT is “Great catch”. Then I wait for the next reply and check it too……..

Anyone tied to an ideology cannot think critically by definition. The rise of extreme right and left ideologies is why critical thinking is almost dead.

These extreme right billionaires like Musk and Bezos have given up on the Earth’s future and want to fortress the US and switch to crypto-gold while they devise their tech-bro extraplanetary…[Read more]

@strega – isn’t there a difference between individuality, and individualism?  Individualism can be a social situation, the opposite of communitarianism.  People rely on themselves and a small circle of people, while in communal societies, people rely on the whole community.  Community societies are “shame” cultures where the community governs th…[Read more]

Strega, i don’t see a path either. Just trying to be creative. AI is an unknown and we see growing reliance and connectedness between humans and AI so who knows. And being creative widespread dissilusionment with both political parties after a disastrous Trump presidency with existential crises might foster a receptiveness to critical thinking for…[Read more]

An American friend once told me a story.
She was in a classroom around age twelve, and the class was required to  write the one word they felt typified Americans.  Everyone else wrote “Individuality”, and she wrote “Conformity” 🙂

This isn’t a country that celebrates individualism. We would be looking at the conformists to introduce new educati…[Read more]

“My question is whether our present compulsory state schooling and teachers with tenured, union-secured positions further our mass lack of criical thinking.

And related to that, how do we get to a society of critical thinkers from where we are now? So much rides on that, indeed everything good.”

loaded question number one. Not gonna address the…[Read more]