Thy Plague Doctor

That’s a great write-up, @unseen. It’s exhausting just trying to keep up with the daily insanity. It feels like America has come to a fork in the road and that it will be decided this year.  If trump is making a total power grab, he will likely need to do that before the November mid-terms, when the likelihood is that democrats will take the Hous…[Read more]

It’s not just the millennials, you’re right. In the UK, many people have an hours commute to work.  When the Blackberry first penetrated the business market, the ‘addiction’ was positive for me, as a business owner with clients in different countries.  Not only would my staff work a 7 hour day (I was emphatic that they only worked 7 hours in the o…[Read more]

Americans do have restrictions on what they can say in public.  The usual example given is they can’t yell, “FIRE” in a crowded movie theater.   The difference in the UK is based on what constitutes inflammatory output.  The sad thing is that the original protection of ‘free speech’ in the USA was directed at enabling the people to speak out agai…[Read more]

On reflection, I think it’s kind of disgusting that the term “casting couch” even exists, and not only that, but that everyone knew what it meant. It was perceived as acceptable. Yes times have changed, and for the good.  I’m sorry that Morgan Freeman was outed for this kind of bad behavior.  I used to like him in films. But in the end, I don’t t…[Read more]

Kids aren’t taught to lose, any more. Everyone wins. Competitions do not have losers. Everyone gets a medal.  This sort of philosophy denies the kids the lessons they need in life, where failure exists and coping with a failure defines your ability to exist in society.

@unseen I find it slightly amusing that you think women broadly are discussing men who go their own way.  I have a reasonable presence on social media, and I’d never come across the abbreviation MGTOW, nor any women who feel they can’t find a man because of a group tendency called this.

Oddly, I have come across the term ‘incels’ a fair bit.  Thi…[Read more]

African Americans are less likely to be wealthy enough to cover tuition as compared to white people. Based on their disadvantage of being qualified for jobs and in general having less education…should it be reasonable to pay an individual African Americans less because their over all demographic is disadvantaged? No. That’s grossly…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
So i distinguish the two.

Yes. Got it!

jakelafort wrote:
Ethics is a matter of applied reason.

If only that were mostly so Jake. If only. This is true when we are in the realm of applied ethics, legal debates and enlightened discussion. However, ethics all to often by-pass anything we’d recognize as reason. Consider this: in a large amount of countries…the most intellectual and…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
@davis – Jordan Peterson apparently believes they’ve been abusing a distorted version of Post Modernism.

Post modernism, in a political, identity, philosophy term…is already highly flawed and damaged goods in my opinion. Adding agressive toxic idenity-politics people who shame others for the words they choose, does not abu…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
@davis – Everyone seems to be locked down and afraid to move in case they get accused of being sexist, racist and homophobic.

Academics and many politicians are being more careful with their words indeed. To be honest, being more considerate with how you label and identify people is in many cases a good thing. Saying: “…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
@davis – what’s your view of the mess that the modern Left seem to have got themselves into?

There are three different questions in your text, so let me adress them separately:

The mess that we have gotten ourselves into, is turning political conversations into “the left” and “the right”. It’s mostly the fault of pol…[Read more]

@Pope tro

You’re going to have a difficult time trying to put critical thinking and post-modernesque tropes in some kind of disfunctional marriage. Critical thinking, in general, is designed to be cold hard analysis. Categorizing and reviewing the soundness of logical arguments. The multi-perspective family of methods/narratives, often tend to…[Read more]