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Yes Roland00 Send a noteboard - 16/01/2019 07:49:16 PM

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If you want to help children who come from disadvantaged families i'm with you. I think excessive accumulation of wealth into fewer and fewer hands is one of the greatest threats to modern society. Making sure that we're have diversity in the mega rich accomplishes nothing.

Arab nations use Israel and the US to distract from how poorly they are running their country. We are seeing the same here where race issues are used to divide people over what is really a class issue. Trump gets most of the white working poor, unite them with the working minority poor end you could get stuff done. Can't di thay I'd you tel the working white that they deserve less help because of white privilege. Poor whites, the largest subgroup of poor, really don't feel that privileged.


But that is a problem of language, for identity is just language turn inward. We humans have many things and language is one of the mind tools we have to organize our behavior, but the problem is language can't not truly understand, it can't truly know, it can't create perfect organization, and thus we must have meta-cognition and be able to pause our language and to change it on the fly.

Yes only a true solution is one that addresses wealth at the bottom (the disadvantage) will be color blind. That is the only way forward.

Yet we use language (what you call identity) to point out the status quo is NOT GOOD ENOUGH, that it is not just, it is not fair, it is not "just deserts". People need to be showed that the status quo is not fair in order to create change or else people that have some will say I do not want to change the status quo for I am happy with the pre-existing arrangement.

But once the error of the status quo is pointed out, we must PIVOT and move to a system that is universal and via pivoting we are switching from one mind tool to another mind tool. For example we may use a drill to bore a hole, but we use a screw to tighten and form a joint in this new hole. Quotes part of a famous quote.


...For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change...

Aka only by creating a better house a more ideal house can we dismantle the current present. Yet at the same time certain mind tools are used to show us the need to escape the current present for it is unsatisfactory.


Arab nations use Israel and the US to distract from how poorly they are running their country. We are seeing the same here where race issues are used to divide people over what is really a class issue. Trump gets most of the white working poor, unite them with the working minority poor end you could get stuff done. Can't di thay I'd you tel the working white that they deserve less help because of white privilege. Poor whites, the largest subgroup of poor, really don't feel that privileged.

In other words Yes. And sorry if I talk more than you

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"Whenever you are offended, you are automatically right!" Roland00 - 13/01/2019 05:45:16 PM 644 Views
This question offends me. That means I win, amirite? *NM* damookster - 13/01/2019 10:35:07 PM 192 Views
Would you rather be correct or right? Roland00 - 13/01/2019 11:03:50 PM 544 Views
As for me Roland00 - 13/01/2019 11:06:47 PM 395 Views
I’m right some of the time. damookster - 13/01/2019 11:46:14 PM 377 Views
Do you find the "golden mean" when you are "being correct?" Roland00 - 14/01/2019 12:05:24 AM 386 Views
The debate I read the other day.... Jeordam - 14/01/2019 10:17:39 PM 393 Views
I need more context to have an opinion on that. Roland00 - 15/01/2019 07:18:10 PM 387 Views
The context was non-existant Jeordam - 15/01/2019 11:55:05 PM 380 Views
Backs away from the debate you are referring to. Roland00 - 16/01/2019 04:40:01 AM 370 Views
Not every conversation, Jeordam - 16/01/2019 04:35:30 PM 382 Views
Of course Roland00 - 16/01/2019 04:43:03 PM 369 Views
Of course you are becuase that makes you a victim random thoughts - 15/01/2019 01:41:48 PM 390 Views
Everyone is a victim in their own story ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Roland00 - 15/01/2019 07:16:04 PM 378 Views
why is everybody always picking on me random thoughts - 16/01/2019 02:59:10 PM 391 Views
But politics are never going to go away Roland00 - 16/01/2019 05:00:06 PM 361 Views
I agree but it should be need based and not race or some other factor random thoughts - 16/01/2019 05:53:06 PM 373 Views
Yes Roland00 - 16/01/2019 07:49:16 PM 378 Views
Do just deserts grow deserving cacti? *NM* damookster - 16/01/2019 08:04:03 PM 176 Views
Woosh Roland00 - 16/01/2019 08:12:53 PM 385 Views
a just desert could be an equitable arid region, yes? *NM* damookster - 16/01/2019 08:35:08 PM 172 Views
A just desert has artic foxes, it is known *NM* Roland00 - 16/01/2019 10:05:13 PM 194 Views
what you say is true ... (here comes the but) damookster - 16/01/2019 05:56:19 PM 389 Views
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas *NM* Roland00 - 16/01/2019 06:24:24 PM 196 Views
So what are you suggesting? damookster - 16/01/2019 07:20:39 PM 383 Views
I can't speak for you Mookie, you are a mixed kind of being, which is a mixture of wonder and vice Roland00 - 16/01/2019 07:41:35 PM 375 Views
My tax dollars paid for an original HBO series? damookster - 16/01/2019 07:59:29 PM 381 Views
Well the 3rd thing I recommended Roland00 - 16/01/2019 08:11:46 PM 390 Views
people who love to reference the maximum tax rates in the 50's and 60's... damookster - 16/01/2019 08:32:19 PM 369 Views
All this is addressed in the Vox's episode Roland00 - 16/01/2019 09:46:02 PM 370 Views
I listened to the entire episode. damookster - 17/01/2019 05:12:19 PM 369 Views
LeBron James is not a billionaire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Roland00 - 17/01/2019 05:29:33 PM 383 Views
No, he isn't. Not the best example damookster - 17/01/2019 06:01:25 PM 398 Views
Charity as a substitute for tax. That's probably one of the dumbest American ideas I've encountered. fionwe1987 - 17/01/2019 05:19:06 AM 373 Views
Once again I am forced to yield to the weight of your intellectual superiority. damookster - 17/01/2019 01:46:32 PM 343 Views
Re: why is everybody always picking on me fionwe1987 - 17/01/2019 03:35:52 AM 368 Views
Interesting fionwe1987 - 15/01/2019 09:07:38 PM 371 Views
I don't think that. Jeordam - 15/01/2019 11:53:21 PM 400 Views
Well now. Thank you for this gift. The Shrike - 15/01/2019 07:43:11 PM 353 Views
Hypocrisy is my gift of charity for all Roland00 - 15/01/2019 07:50:28 PM 391 Views
Twitter says you're wrong! AgentApple - 16/01/2019 09:05:00 AM 375 Views
I am offended by your offense, thus my being right has salience / primacy over you being right. Roland00 - 16/01/2019 04:45:11 PM 361 Views
So let it be written, So let it be done! damookster - 16/01/2019 05:07:38 PM 554 Views
I want that body! Roland00 - 16/01/2019 05:32:49 PM 382 Views
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