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jakelafort wrote:
As though a lack of ideological diversity isn’t the sine qua non of indoctrination! As though that lack of ideological diversity isn’t in part a reflection of show me the money.

I think that progressive values have a momentum of their own, especially with the young.  The human race has a doctrine of helping the needy and vuln…[Read more]

Reg,

To celebrate Hamit Coskun winning his appeal for free expression, I will burn an old USB drive that holds 100 copies each of the Quran and Bible to celebrate.

Don’t burn anything to celebrate freedom of expression, especially if you’re concerned about Carbon footprints. Instead. read Al Quran and The Holy Bible out loud on a street corner…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Many U.S. students will very likely start going to Chinese Universities soon.

Might be a good idea for all American schools to start teaching Chinese.

When I was young (I’m 79 now, so a long time ago), the choices were French, German, and Spanish. French was recommended as the language of diplomacy, German for kids…[Read more]

Many U.S. students will very likely start going to Chinese Universities soon.

Simon says someone says it who didn’t say it but lemme display it.

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The problem in colleges isn’t indoctrination. It’s a lack of ideological diversity

The right seems to be on a mission to expose universities as centers of leftist indoctrination. Too often we professors waved away the charge. We called these assertions naive at bes…[Read more]

@Simon, – The coordinated flight of birds or the efficiency of an ant colony are examples of true emergence. It is complex order arising from simple, local rules. Each agent behaves independently, yet their interactions create a collective intelligence without any central plan or higher consciousness.

It’s legitimate emergence because the…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The problem in colleges isn’t indoctrination. It’s a lack of ideological diversity.

The right seems to be on a mission to expose universities as centers of leftist indoctrination. Too often we professors waved away the charge. We called these assertions naive at best, Trumpy at worst. Students, we rightly noted, are…

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Thanks for the comment Jake. I was also thinking that old age is wasted on the not-so-young, to twist G.B. Shaw’s line for when people mistake religiosity for wisdom. Needing a comfort blanket against existential fear doesn’t make you wise; it just means you’re still afraid.

Real wisdom comes from remembering what it felt like to be young — cur…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
It sounds plausible, even scientific, but it doesn’t predict, measure, or model anything.

But surely the behaviour of flocks of birds – organisation – emerges from the behaviour of single birds, following a few simple behavioural rules, and the organised behaviour of ant colonies emerge from ants, which have a l…[Read more]

Re the second long read post above; The word “emergence,” when used uncritically, inherits the same intellectual vice as theism. It offers comfort where explanation is difficult. It sounds plausible, even scientific, but it doesn’t predict, measure, or model anything. It stops being a descriptor and starts being a substitute for under…[Read more]

Reg that was poetic without being poetry.

Got me thinking though how theism and de facto theism (communism, nazism, palestinianism…pick your poison) cause their victims to see through the lens of a kaleidoscope. No opportunity for existentialism and its personal nature. The universe is instead viewed through a fixed kaleidoscope. It is…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!

Have a great week!!

I was jogging in the park recently. I passed an older man on a bench for the 3rd time in a row (I do 6 laps – 5k). He quipped….’you are in 4th place’. No, I replied, “I am winning because I am still in the race”. On the next pass he was still grinning. It got me thinking……

Atheism, when treated not as mere disbelief but…[Read more]

@Jakelafort – the ‘stopped clock’  cartoon in the current edition of the satirical Private Eye would agree with you 🙂

Some big No Trump protests today.

Crowd got something correct even if it is by accident. Kind of like Trump….gets something right occasionally by accident. Or when his self interest coincides with the right move.

Enco,

Reg is funny and has precisely what is missing in the great majority. Not just intelligent and resistant to persuasion through popularity but an honest approach to issues that is ideal.

Meanwhile Israel is guilty of being above the fray in not wanting to justify itself. I get that. But it is really destructive. Israel needs a department…[Read more]

Reg and Jake,

Both of you are absolutely on fire for Israel! In fact, I think Reg is actually giving Jake a challenge on who can be the bigger Zionist!

“Professor Gaia Evergreen-Jones, PhD and Chair of Intersectional Resistance at the University of Moral Superiority.”. That was some gut-busting funny art imitating cringy, absurd life! 🤡😄

But…[Read more]

Another thing.

As long as the world is fixated on Jews our world will be fucked up. Jews are a tiny insignificant minority relative to world population and yet it feels like they take up 95 percent of the social media and networks. That level of fixation is and can be only driven by ideology. By a powerful and enduring mind virus of hatred. If i…[Read more]

That horse i mentioned saw the winner’s circle. An equine indulgence by design.

“Real moral clarity requires evidence and consistency. Sympathy for Palestinian civilians is justified and necessary but it must never extend to justifying Hamas. Until the West can separate humanitarian concern from ideological indulgence, it will keep rewarding…[Read more]

Ah yes, of course Jake, how could I have been so blind? The benevolent freedom fighters of Hamas, guardians of justice, protectors of women’s rights, LGBTQ+ citizens, and interfaith harmony everywhere. Their tireless work in turning Gaza into a beacon of pluralism and technological innovation over the last 20 years with no help from Israel c…[Read more]