You seem to have cherry-picked what you wanted to hear out of my comments
Isaac Send a noteboard - 22/08/2011 01:07:10 AM
You want to see nothing but abuse by the corporations and their 'western pawns' so you find it and see it and ignore the rest where it contradicts your ideology. You spin my remarks to make it sound like I was implying the west and capitalist interests are pristine clean when I've made it clear on numerous occasions and in that most recent post that I merely view them as a lighter shade of gray in comparison to most of the existing powers that be in those places. You even managed to twist my remarks to make it sound like I was implying the people in those places were somehow inferior.
It's like you're so attached to your worldview that you absolutely refuse to read anything that might show you a contradiction. You ignore all numbers, you object to the claim that standard of living in many of those places has risen even though all data says it has, even the HD index you previously used to cite to show the glories of socialist Europe. How can you claim that technology has not helped humankind? and that's what you're doing though I'm sure you'd deny it, you just cover it in thin aspersions to capitalism. Well a centralized egalitarian society would do the same things, move it's assets to where they can do the most good, bypass the $50 hammer in favor of the functional equally $5 one. You despise the primary method for improvement so you attempt to deny the improvement has taken place. In a world of 6 billion people you invariably seize on the always present and numerous bad things over the good to reinforce your beliefs. You could look at some place and pick out the mineshaft for blood diamonds and look right past the hub of a center-pivot irrigation system because you don't want to see anything that will screw up your comfortable millenarian outlook on life and it would distract you from a good rant about corporate corruption and campaign donations.
It's like you're so attached to your worldview that you absolutely refuse to read anything that might show you a contradiction. You ignore all numbers, you object to the claim that standard of living in many of those places has risen even though all data says it has, even the HD index you previously used to cite to show the glories of socialist Europe. How can you claim that technology has not helped humankind? and that's what you're doing though I'm sure you'd deny it, you just cover it in thin aspersions to capitalism. Well a centralized egalitarian society would do the same things, move it's assets to where they can do the most good, bypass the $50 hammer in favor of the functional equally $5 one. You despise the primary method for improvement so you attempt to deny the improvement has taken place. In a world of 6 billion people you invariably seize on the always present and numerous bad things over the good to reinforce your beliefs. You could look at some place and pick out the mineshaft for blood diamonds and look right past the hub of a center-pivot irrigation system because you don't want to see anything that will screw up your comfortable millenarian outlook on life and it would distract you from a good rant about corporate corruption and campaign donations.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
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Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
- Albert Einstein
King of Cairhien 20-7-2
Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
If ever there was a reason to cut greenhouse gas emissions
- 19/08/2011 10:14:00 AM
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I've seen Start Trek, I know the real threat is you killing whales.
- 19/08/2011 10:34:08 AM
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I know
- 19/08/2011 10:36:22 AM
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- 19/08/2011 10:36:22 AM
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You make a fair point
- 19/08/2011 11:22:53 AM
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There's so much wrong with that
- 19/08/2011 01:08:57 PM
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"They don't recycle; kill them all. "
- 19/08/2011 07:11:15 PM
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- 19/08/2011 07:11:15 PM
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Very Space Hippy
- 19/08/2011 10:39:10 PM
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- 19/08/2011 10:39:10 PM
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It's still debatable whether we've abandoned the evolutionary ladder.
- 19/08/2011 11:16:58 PM
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You'll welcome to debate that with a biologist, it's not my specialty or interest
- 20/08/2011 04:46:43 AM
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I've seen a lot of mainstream biologists suggest human evolution may be mostly mental now.
- 21/08/2011 11:32:48 AM
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Neither of us are biologists though and it's not really relveant anyway
- 21/08/2011 01:21:06 PM
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I'm not ignoring it, just wondering why over half the planet ignores it and lives in misery.
- 21/08/2011 01:55:53 PM
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If you have occassion to spend time in those places you'll know why
- 21/08/2011 02:38:44 PM
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How does literal mud huts as the norm respresent living standards rising "a lot".
- 22/08/2011 12:29:35 AM
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You seem to have cherry-picked what you wanted to hear out of my comments
- 22/08/2011 01:07:10 AM
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"It's a stability thing, not a Western greed thing" seemed to encapsulate your comments.
- 22/08/2011 03:10:17 PM
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Only if you really cherry pick them
- 23/08/2011 02:48:08 AM
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This seems to have descended into an insoluble partisan debate.
- 23/08/2011 07:43:07 PM
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*rudely butts in*
- 23/08/2011 04:38:33 AM
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American companies don't go to China SOLELY to screw the working class, no;that's largely incidental
- 25/08/2011 08:03:05 PM
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we should abdon the myth of the evolutionary ladder
- 20/08/2011 11:49:35 PM
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Probably; as discussed in Brams thread it should never be seen as predictive, let alone prophetic.
- 21/08/2011 11:55:09 AM
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Well, for this context I think the use is okay
- 21/08/2011 11:59:19 AM
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That's an interesting point about the NEED for fossil fuels as a stepping stone to advanced culture.
- 21/08/2011 12:33:59 PM
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Not a need, just an edge
- 21/08/2011 02:06:23 PM
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There's industrialization and then there's industrialization.
- 22/08/2011 12:53:35 AM
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If you were more familiar with engineering you'd not say something like that
- 22/08/2011 01:53:33 AM
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I dispute that industrialization is primarily about non-agricultural production.
- 22/08/2011 03:10:19 PM
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Well you can argue that with a dictionary I suppose
- 23/08/2011 03:50:52 AM
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I'm not above that, but the dictionary definitions I've found are disappointingly self-referential.
- 24/08/2011 02:25:21 AM
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That tends to be the case, it is a kinda vague term outside of specific context
- 24/08/2011 09:12:19 AM
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Tends to moot that part of the debate though.
- 26/08/2011 12:31:21 AM
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and we wonder why so many people ignore "scientist"
- 19/08/2011 01:17:38 PM
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Think it's better to ignore "reporters on a slow news day," to be honest *NM*
- 19/08/2011 02:38:23 PM
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Hypothetical aliens are perfectly wise
- 19/08/2011 06:24:13 PM
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You may be confusing aliens with God.
- 19/08/2011 07:08:01 PM
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