geographically to condense spirit and ambition. Needy for raw
materials. Maybe a bad case of "little man's disease" led to empire.
Muslim countries razor out references to Israel- even maps.
The West eats too much and buys too much- a sign of low self-worth.
Technology is not above and beyond morals whether Wall Street or
automated weapons but somehow people believe otherwise.
On Oct 29, 6:32 pm, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry your video is currently not available.. will try later I did some
> looking up to understand the raping of Nang I have actually known about for
> a long time ,, seems even before the internet why I don't recall any more..
> Maybe it is from the horrible abuse and treatment of the american Indian
> by my own government. and other minorities..
>
> I think people want to believe the soft sell packaged lies.. people
> apparently prefer to live in fear and accept lies rather than face the
> truth.. as for governments that color truth worse is it the USA or
> Great Britain? Both Countries seem to bury their heads in the sand when it
> comes to coloring their history. still am trying to figure out
> the British empire.
>
> Hopefully the Occupy Movement will have some effect positive I hope if the
> one percent want to control the wealth and government they at least to
> bear their fair share of the expenses based on percentage of ownership.
> Allan
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 7:51 PM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The current crisis is not one of banking or economics, but something
> > much more basic. One might say this is our attitude towards 'machines
> > of loving grace'. In short, we live in the fantasy that "the machine"
> > will put things right, returning to an equilibrium as our
> > interventions are little more than 'of mice and men'. The real world
> > of the environment and the exchange world of economics return to
> > equilibrium after fluctuations. It's very tempting to believe this -
> > one might see Gaia as a case in point - the planet and other species
> > flourishing after we've crazed ourselves to extinction through
> > consumption and wars.
>
> > You can pick up the ideas of 'all watched over by machines of loving
> > grace' here -
> >http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/2160186460/All-Watched-Over-By-M...
>
> > A review with an economic twist can be found here -
> >http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/10/the-natural-chaos-of-markets.html
>
> > My own work has often focused on the difference between espoused
> > theories and theories-in-action. In some subjects like chemistry the
> > relationship between theory and practice is good - if you follow the
> > rules and recipes you get what you intended and the explanations make
> > sense if you study enough. There is a working core, you can trust or
> > check the work of others and speculation can eventually be tested on
> > what is not accepted as 'settled'. In the human sciences this is much
> > more difficult, not least because we do not exclude much in human
> > society that prevents science. Few of us have much aptitude for
> > science, perhaps especially for its negation of ideology soaked up
> > from community.
>
> > I always noted as a teacher that I was more comfortable saying 'you
> > just can't handle the maths' (unlikely for me as I'd teach people like
> > that without the stuff), than in saying 'you just don't get argument
> > because you can't let go of any prejudice'. Teaching people to think
> > for themselves contains a paradox. One finds much one is expected to
> > teach based on dross. I know of no country in which history is taught
> > without gross ideological distortion. We hear the Japanese rip out
> > pages in textbooks on the 'rape of Nanking' yet it's rare to find
> > Brits who know much of our squalid imperialism and involvement in much
> > similar. In the middle east you will find a more accurate picture of
> > the Crusades than we get, but the Jihad that is the mirror image is
> > revered.
>
> > Most people like to imagine themselves as individual, but if we're
> > honest we are subjects of machines of loving grace. One makes one's
> > way in an economy (machine) on a planet (environmental machine). I
> > think these are only "machines" because we don't examine them.
> > Examination often ends in paradox - logical positivism eventually
> > conceded its own quest to extirpate metaphysics was - oops -
> > metaphysical. My own guess is that rigorous thinking seeks to
> > discover and eliminate dross - this involves a great deal of courage
> > in accepting you are likely made of same oneself!
>
> > I'm a maverick systems theorist and conceive of our social-political
> > arguments (and the systems themselves) as houses of cards. one looks
> > for the soft spots that can bring the lot down or as places to put in
> > effort to keep the ball rolling. No argument survives this process
> > more than twenty seconds with such soft spots arising. Most don't
> > have either the energy or tools to keep going and run to the 'bliss'
> > of the machine (religion, patriotism, left and right etc.). We are
> > thus robots of one 'machine' or another, not individuals, hardly
> > people if we're not careful.
>
> --
> (
> )
> |_D Allan
>
> Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
0 comentários:
Postar um comentário