The most taboo topics, according to a survey of 500 Americans

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-18T14:21:23+00:00

The key seems to be that this is about the most taboo 'topics', not the most taboo 'acts'.

I'm sure that talking about the genetic differences between races/subspecies
is only considered more taboo than 'talking' about incest and paedophilia,
not 'committing' them.

One can only hope.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-18T10:18:34+00:00

It's weird how rare it is to see/hear the speeches of
such a historically important figure.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-18T10:26:24+00:00

It's like 'believing' that 2+2=4.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-17T18:20:39+00:00

The NYT does not clumsily 'ban' Journalists
(to the extent that any remain at the NYT)
from using accurate words
('Genocide', 'Occupation' and 'Palestine').

As masters of lies and experts at doublespeak,
they merely instead imply that telling the truth
might be detrimental to your continued employment.

You see, they just want their 'journalists' to
~~keep spewing bullshit~~ ... errr ... use alternative terms,
you know, for 'better clarity and accuracy', of course. :/

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-17T12:36:57+00:00

That's fucking horrible!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-16T16:18:47+00:00

meh!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-16T15:24:25+00:00

Perhaps.

But the hopelessly corrupt 'Democratic' party in the USA is not 'left;
but rather controlled left-astroturf,
which considers 'we the people' to be 'them, the deplorables'.

'Left' and 'right' no longer, if they ever did, correspond to coherent political ideologies.

Those who fight for liberty and against totalitarianism/tyranny,
and/or those that fight for totalitarianism/tyranny and against liberty,
must not be categorized as ... 'right' vs 'left'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T19:05:03+00:00

He was arrested for posting political opinions.
Persecuting him over this kind of thing is oppressive and totalitarian.
And, unfortunately, you're right, this is also, shockingly,
the same path that Scotland is choosing.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T18:47:28+00:00

It's not just 'the left''s pro-war stance that's peculiar.

Did you ever imagine that it would e.g. push for corporate control of information,
wanting sociopathic greed-driven businesses deciding what people get to read or not?

The current 'left' seems to be marketing-agency astroturf
actually aiming at totalitarianism.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T08:20:54+00:00

NATO has become a dangerous anachronism,
which should have been dismantled when the Warsaw Pact was disbanded.

Europe should of course remain allied with the USA,
a former European colony after all,
which still shares many values with European civilization.

However, Europe must extricate itself from the USA's 'leadership',
which usually involves pointlessly mass-murdering people by the tens of thousands.

European foreign policy must stop being directed
by the 'Neocons' and/or other corrupt/evil forces
currently in control of the USA.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T19:43:25+00:00

The issue is that Israelis don't realize
that their shocking behaviour
is going to eventually boomerang,
and when it does
and they scream and plead
for the world to save them,
the world might just go: 'meh!'

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T19:27:46+00:00

Item 12745 indicating that humans are currently decivilizing,
deleting the achievements of the past centuries,
sinking back into some kind of idiocratic neo-feudalistic dark ages
... but with cell phones.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T19:16:22+00:00

What a never ending shit show.
We seem to have misheard.
They had said 'the butt-hole-y land'! :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T18:46:55+00:00

You probably meant to say that
'Palestine/Palestinians need to wake up and rid themselves of ...'
the genocidal occupation of their land by supremacist state-sponsored shitbag terrorists.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T09:27:08+00:00

The USA has finally gone full South-American pseudo-democracy,
weaponized government institutions, et al.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T09:19:18+00:00

No, no, the only way to halt the descent into violence and lawlessness
is to control, corrupt and weaponize government institutions,
certainly the media/information, and to brainwash away democracy,
turning 'we, the people' into 'mobs' of 'deplorables'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T17:36:05+00:00

Iran has long been a 'Neocon' target.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-15T08:16:38+00:00

There are laws about immigration.

These were broken.

So much harm has been done by those (morons/cowards/criminals?)
that (unwittingly?) colluded with Europe-hating forces
to bypass these laws and enable/encourage illegal immigration into Europe,
basically to try to turn Europe into yet another shithole.

Every one of them should be found and indicted.
They should at the very least be fired.
They're either too stupid or too corrupt to be left in charge of anything.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T10:30:02+00:00

*we're

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T08:37:37+00:00

I'm surprised that the reddit inquisition has allowed this to be posted.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T09:46:52+00:00

You're, unfortunately, right.

And censorship is never used to defend the truth,
since the truth never needed censors/inquisitors.

Censorship is always used to protect some bullshit
(ideology/religion, e.g. Islamism)
from the truth.

And it's getting worse.
Sociopathic turds that claim
to 'protect' people from 'dis/misinformation'
control more and more what
you're allowed to see.

Most notably, in Europe,
if you want to reach RT for example
to get a Russian perspective on global affairs,
good luck, because ....

DAS IST VERBOTEN!!!

... for your own good, of course. :/

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T18:24:32+00:00

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T18:09:38+00:00

WTF!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T08:19:09+00:00

Future generations are going to make fun of us,

of ALL of us,

including those of us who,

by mere inaction,

allowed this grotesque situation to happen.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-14T08:53:43+00:00

Exceptions must not be paraded as if the actual rule.

Our culture is absolutely right to say that

"Minors are so INNOCENT! They don't KNOW what they want! Anyone who touches them, under any circumstances, is taking advantage of them!"

That's almost always the case.

Incidentally, you're defending paedophilia, seriously!?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-13T18:13:19+00:00

A societal model is broken if and when greed-driven 'doctors'
are building clinics in order to serve extreme neurotic narcissists,
'treating' thus 'Body Integrity Dysphoria' or whatever,
providing them with surgery (to deal with mental issues!?),
while children with real (curable but 'expensive') medical issues
may be left to die if their parents are not rich enough to pay.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-11T20:40:34+00:00

At this point,
not only should Assange be immediately released,
but everyone involved in his shameful persecution should be indicted.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-11T22:13:37+00:00

Interesting

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-11T19:18:48+00:00

Fine, now, is Jesus Christ the same deity as the one worshipped by the Hebrews, or not?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-11T16:43:11+00:00

You're the one apparently confused about which deity you're worshipping (hint: Yahweh).

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-11T15:07:16+00:00

Should one not?

Christianity is a monotheism, is it not?

And monotheists prefer to worship only one deity, do they not?

Now, though, granted, Christianity is philosophically Hellenistic,
its mythology is that of Judaism, i.e. Yahweh-worship, is it not?

So, mythologically, the deity in Christianity must be conflated with Yahweh,
must it not?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T17:49:33+00:00

It does seem so, doesn't it?

Nonetheless, there must be some hesitancy even towards saidit.
This is partly due to a certain lack of transparency about who owns/controls it.
Let's not forget that privatizing digital town squares
was done to bypass actual freedom of speech.

Eventually, a non-privately/corporately owned platform,
a publicly-owned platform, really analogous to a town square,
has to eventually be created,
where, by law and to the extent allowed by law,
e.g. freedom of speech, is implemented.

Sincere political views by actual people must be protected,
and only taken away if someone is caught shilling, spamming, advertising,
and/or committing other forms of lying for pay.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T19:24:06+00:00

Again, excellent points.

So, I guess that, though you're right on every point,
my own is that citizens must ... somehow ... fight to regain a balance of power
between themselves and the regimes/governments/bureaucracies
that claim to represent them, but more and more disingenuously.

I seem to agree with the old 'I'd rather a government fear its citizens than the other way around'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T18:43:45+00:00

These are excellent points.

An important aspect of the USA and French revolutions
is that mass-production allowed the people
to basically have the same weapons (guns) as governments
and there were far more people than government mercenaries (police/army, etc), so ...

Before that, the expense and widescale unavailability of armour and quality weaponry
meant that e.g. a team of ten armoured knights on horseback could decimate entire villages of villeins,
something that helped prop-up feudalism.

We do now seem to be moving back towards some neo-feudal (but high-tech) situation.

Nonetheless, I wouldn't say that revolutions, or resistance to tyranny, has zero to do with violence.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T17:09:48+00:00

They may need them ...
but even an armed citizenry will soon present no obstacle to tyranny,
as governments will increasingly transition to drones and other automated systems,
able to kill en masse, without courage or ability, from complete mechanized safety.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T19:09:54+00:00

This is as funny, but ultimately sad, as a man asking: 'How do I explain that I’m a giraffe and not just mentally ill?'

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T17:13:01+00:00

Hollywood is in the business of making up bullshit.

In it, to be fake, to pretend, to lie, convincingly, is rewarded.

And so, children growing up in that environment
might consider a life of being fake, pretending and lying
as something to aspire to,
together with narcissism.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-10T16:15:47+00:00

Repeatable experiments are exactly what led to quantum physics.
Physics is indeed Philosophy, specifically 'Natural Philosophy'.
And WTF does Freud have to do with it?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T12:36:32+00:00

Yet another 'Swedish' issue.

Apparently, Europe, especially Nordic Europe,
must ... 'diversify'.

Gods forbid it should remain civilized.

More generally, current nations/ethnicities must all be turned into
a huge pile of (brown, 2-digit-IQ, etc.) monotypic, monocultural, generic, 'humans'.

Making all differences disappear is what 'diversity' should all be about, isn't it?

And there's no danger that this might allow some sociopathic 'elite' (so to speak)
to easily manipulate and eventually enslave humanity.

No, of course not! :/

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T12:43:03+00:00

When the corruption manages to overcome the senility.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T08:54:01+00:00

Woah, can you say absolute evil?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T16:59:56+00:00

Real conspiracies do exist, but quantum physics is not one.

Far from bullshit, quantum phenomena are an undeniable aspect of reality.
You can witness them yourself, with simple home experiments.
Furthermore, attempts by Physicists to explain quantum phenomena are unquestionably sincere.

Anyone that offers a new, better, simpler, more elegant explanation for these phenomena
than the best current attempts, leading to better predictions,
will undoubtedly be celebrated by the world of Physics.
In Physics, a statement can be challenged by anyone, and is always only temporary
until a more accurate theory emerges from the process of logic and experiment.
Now, compare this to the dogmata of any religion of your choice.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T09:10:21+00:00

Slavery is a bad system.

It creates unnecessary suffering.

It took civilized man a long time to get rid of it.

So ... no.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T12:51:19+00:00

They seem to be trying to turn sincere physics into somehow aligning with the primitive bullshit of Yahweh worship.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-09T08:59:56+00:00

Do not interfere, as in Star Trek's Prime Directive.

Trying to solve their problems for them is a bad idea.
It ends up, ironically, making them blame you for their problems,
entitled, child-like, throwing tantrums. That's not a good solution.

The Prime Directive is what should probably have been done for the whole of Africa.

The promiscuity of Africans might be related to a high infant mortality in Africa.
Europeans figured that they'd be kind and bring them actual/scientific medicine
(to replace voodoo/magic, etc.), thus lowering infant mortality.
But this led to overpopulation, famines, etc.
Well-meaning Europeans may arguably have done more harm than exploitative ones.

Of course, left to their own devices, the Africans of the USA may soon revert
to the state they were found in, back in Africa,
some of them literally in the Stone Age, enslaving each other, etc.

Nonetheless, trying to force civilization on primitive peoples doesn't seem to work.

They need to be left alone to eventually become civilized on their own.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-08T19:03:46+00:00

Nonsense

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-08T13:32:00+00:00

That's not what ... all the (both natural and anthropogenic) sources of atmospheric CO2 by percentage per year, ... means.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-08T08:38:27+00:00

It's possible that Jones is referring to an estimated yearly anthropogenic contribution to the 0.04% of atmospheric CO2.

What Schmidt did, for his 33% number, was to refer to an estimated cumulative anthropogenic CO2, since 1850!

It'd be interesting, for clarity, to know what all the (both natural and anthropogenic) sources of atmospheric CO2 are, by percentage per year.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-08T08:35:28+00:00

This does indeed seem to be the case.
'Democrats', and some others calling themselves 'the Left' (which used to more or less mean those trying to protect the people from plutocrats), have been infiltrated and compromised.
Now they seem to instead work for the plutocrats and against the people.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-07T13:48:39+00:00

Sure, the oil industry must not get subsidized by taxpayers
(and they should furthermore pay for the disposal of plastics not to mention spills),
and leaks do harm sea life and more generally the environment, etc., etc., etc.,
but that's not was was being discussed, now, was it?

And the question was not 'ignore any and every point being made,
avoid understanding anything,
and mindlessly regurgitate some mantra'.

It was rather:

So, his concerns seem arguably valid, IF his numbers are correct.

Are they correct?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-07T09:09:01+00:00

I'm not the one pretending to challenge his arguments,
nor, certainly, spewing labels and insults,
including, ironically, about what a moron he is.

'The rest of the information' that you linked,
i.e. about gases other than CO2,
methane (CH4), at 0.01%, constitutes even (and much) less than CO2,
and as for Nitrous Oxide and/or CFCs, their percentages are even tinier, as in minuscule,
i.e parts per billion of the atmosphere.
The most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere seems to be ... water vapour.

And the CO2 part of the NASA thing you quote and link says

'carbon dioxide (CO2) is released through natural processes (like volcanic eruptions) and through human activities'.

Fine, so, what Mr Jones claims is that
the anthropogenic (human activities) portion
of the (0.04%) CO2 part of the atmosphere
constitutes merely 3% of that 0.04%,
meaning that natural processes contribute 97% of it,
i.e. of the 0.04% part of the atmosphere that is CO2.

Now, many/most policies currently being proposed
aim at curbing anthropogenic carbon production,
at great costs to societies/taxpayers/people
and great profits to the corporations positioned to 'solve the problem',
all the while ignoring that 97% of CO2 production is not anthropogenic.

So, his concerns seem arguably valid, IF his numbers are correct.

Are they correct?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-06T21:52:08+00:00

You lazily posted statements from and a link to some NASA vulgarization aimed at kids:

'Four Major Gases Contribute to the Greenhouse Effect, Number one: Carbon Dioxide.'

Have you, with this, addressed his argument, in any way?

The statements that you imagine you're somehow challenging thus
is his claims that Carbon Dioxide only constitutes 0.04 % of the Earth's atmosphere,
and that (of that 0.04 %), 3% is anthropogenic, etc.

That's what needs addressing.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-06T16:49:37+00:00

not the onion

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-05T09:22:19+00:00

The basic challenge of men pretending to be women may be their 'struggle against reality' (Monty Python).

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-04T10:39:38+00:00

There's a movement to impose the pretence that humans are a monotypic species, not a polytypic one,
by using that the boundaries between recognizable human types are fuzzy, not crisp.

This seems to be part of a more general attack, supposedly out of 'kindness', on our attempts to actually understand objective reality.

It also manifests in e.g. pushing the idea that a mentally ill man pretending to be a woman is in fact a woman.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-04T18:04:28+00:00

No Refuge from Logic

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-04T17:32:30+00:00

'That's not my department says (SS-Sturmbannführer) Wernher von Braun ...'

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-04T09:31:49+00:00

How factual/accurate is this?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-03T13:25:43+00:00

Every time RFK says something unaligned, ...
which is often, and is thus immediately attacked by sell-out/cowardly/compromised shills, ...
typically by seeking to distort/straw-man what he actually says, ...
it usually turns out that RFK was actually right.

Corporate-controlled search engines are chock-full of articles about RFK's antisemitism, for example.

But, to get a glimpse of the truth,
watch the attacks on RFK by the infamously depraved Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
where RFK gives her the actual facts, which she's not at all interested in,
as shown by her frantic attempts to prevent him from responding meaningfully,
essentially gagging him, so she can continue spreading the misleading vitriol.

https://youtu.be/PaZe_JHVx94?si=8wRKh-Qr327zHAkv

The unholy alliance of a compromised US government and sociopathic corporations,
neither working for the people,
have managed to reanimate that level of imposed-official-bullshit that had characterized the Stalinist USSR.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-03T19:20:46+00:00

Agreed, and we're not even talking about any real 'Left', which would ostensibly work to protect the people from plutocratic private interests.

Those in control of the (ironically named) 'Democrats' constitute a fake 'Left', and they actually look down upon and despise 'the people', considering them 'deplorables'.

This kind of astroturf pseudo-'Left' works for an 'elite' (so to speak) of plutocratic banking and corporate interests and against the people.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-03T13:28:11+00:00

So, not only can a man pass himself off as a woman, legally so,
but it's instead someone that reveals the lie/subterfuge that must fear prosecution,
creating thus societies where telling the truth is (so far only almost) a criminal act,
but lying is fine, if not encouraged.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-03T17:14:07+00:00

A stern letter has been sent! :/

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-02T13:10:26+00:00

Let's, as an exercise in both laziness and irony, ask a non-human to answer (though it will merely regurgitate and recombine what actual humans have said):

ChatGPT:

The question of what it means to be human is a deeply philosophical one and has been pondered by thinkers, theologians, scientists, and artists throughout history. There's no single answer, as it encompasses a multitude of aspects including biological, psychological, social, and existential dimensions. Here are some perspectives:   

Biological Aspect: Biologically, humans are classified as Homo sapiens, a species of primates characterized by bipedal locomotion, complex brains capable of abstract thinking and language, and intricate social structures.

Consciousness and Self-awareness: One of the defining features of being human is consciousness - the ability to perceive and experience the world subjectively. This includes self-awareness, introspection, and the capacity to reflect on one's own existence.

Emotions and Empathy: Humans experience a wide range of emotions, including joy, sadness, anger, fear, and love. Empathy, the ability to understand and share the feelings of others, is also considered a hallmark of humanity.

Culture and Civilization: Humans have developed complex cultures, languages, art, and technology. These cultural creations distinguish us from other species and shape our identities as individuals and societies.

Moral and Ethical Reasoning: Humans possess a sense of morality and ethics, which guide our behavior and decision-making. This includes concepts of right and wrong, fairness, justice, and compassion.

Spirituality and Transcendence: Many humans seek meaning and purpose beyond the material realm, exploring questions of spirituality, religion, and existentialism. This quest for transcendence often involves grappling with the mysteries of life, death, and the universe.

Adaptability and Innovation: Humans are highly adaptable creatures, capable of thriving in diverse environments and solving complex problems. Our capacity for innovation and creativity has led to tremendous advancements in science, technology, and society.

Connection and Relationships: Humans are inherently social beings, forming deep connections with others through friendships, family bonds, romantic relationships, and community ties. These relationships contribute to our sense of belonging and fulfillment.

Ultimately, being human is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that defies easy definition. It encompasses our biological nature, cognitive abilities, emotional experiences, cultural creations, moral aspirations, and spiritual quests. It's a journey of self-discovery and meaning-making that continues to unfold throughout our lives.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-01T10:30:29+00:00

Interesting ...
not to mention that, currently, many/most such terms have become misnomers,
with e.g. 'liberal' now indicating the very opposite of a love of liberty,
indicating, instead, a kind of astroturf pseudo-liberalism
that's actually promoting totalitarianism.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-03-31T23:05:30+00:00

It's probably better than dys-genics,
which is the current fashion it often seems,
where we praise the primitive, stupid, and ugly
... just as in the 'Fine Arts'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-03-31T23:17:46+00:00

The current transgender push as an attempt at eugenics (convincing the confused, 'weak-minded', homosexuals, etc., to become sterile) ... what a cynical take!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-03-27T20:47:38+00:00

Yes.

I used to love Reddit and spent/wasted much time on it.

But then things got less and less organic, i.e. they seemed more and more manipulated/bot-ified? And their mods just went full woketard: To lie became mandatory. To tell objectively true facts became a 'bannable offence'. At this point on that site, unless you submit to agreeing with all kinds of complete bullshit (e.g. that a man pretending to be a woman is in fact a woman), you get diagnosed with some 'phobia' and/or labelled a 'hater' and then, of course, you get banned by some opinion-control inquisitors.

Sorry but ... nope.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-03-24T23:30:41+00:00

For sec there, it seemed that he was about to launch into 'California Dreaming'!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-02-27T08:27:17+00:00

You present no arguments and spam videos instead, and that's not how I debate.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-02-22T17:37:35+00:00

That I'll debate doesn't mean I'll feed clickbait spam.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-02-12T16:58:30+00:00

It's not a valid point. Regular human minds figured the objects and rules of maths. That these rules are objective and/or that numbers can be imagined to be infinite does ... not ... prove god(s).

Incidentally, nor, especially, does it prove distasteful tribal dictator-deities, like Yahweh (the one such videos typically seek to promote). This deity, which some crafty charlatans invented and managed to infect our civilization with, is shockingly and demonstrably evil when examined by objective ethical criteria. But here we are, still infected, talking about it, so many of us having barely risen above those that (when told that their tribal deity demanded it) actually stoned people to death (over nonsense).

Anyway, I wish that some people would stop trying to keep spreading the infection, especially when pretending to use Philosophy to try to push whichever crappy tribal deity/mythology they've been brainwashed into.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-02-12T11:55:11+00:00

European foreign policy, which includes defence, must not be dependent on the likes of Trump, Biden and/or the assorted sociopaths manipulating them.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-02-10T20:56:43+00:00

The objects and rules of maths derive from reasoning, i.e. the mind. Numbers are infinite! Therefore, maths come from an infinite mind!! ERGO GOD(s?) EXIST!!! QED!!!!

:/

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-10T09:10:34+00:00

He purposely bumps into the journalist and then, knowingly lying, claims assault. So, the questions are never answered. What a piece of shit! Should he not get fired?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-06T12:15:29+00:00

OK, but all that being somewhat accurately said, it's still a surprising move.

Carrefour purports to be fighting inflation by this, not fighting unhealthy crap being offered, nor microplastics, etc.

Incidentally, in terms of unhealthy crap being offered, the other[s], of the handful of food-cartel corporations that peddle almost all 'food' products, are no better.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-06T19:44:09+00:00

Sure, theoretically, in 'an infinitely large universe of perfectly rational consumers', Smith's magically benevolent invisible hand might arise.

But this is feels like some Capitalist version of that last bastion of Communist apologists, to claim that the reason it was so catastrophic towards human happiness is that all previously applied Communism was 'not true Communism!'

For societies to actually improve, where citizens can be freer and happier, we may want to start ignoring the two idiotic 'ism's that have plagued the 20^th century (and certainly not to feel allegiance to them!) and to instead start looking for policies that actually make sense.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-06T16:55:04+00:00

Writing, which is an essential aspect of civilization, was indeed invented by the Sumerians well before 5^th century BC Greece.

However, in terms of governance, the Persians and everybody else used the same system (government by some 'Alpha male', with perhaps some subservient allies) most commonly used in apes, including non-human ones, like chimps and gorillas.

Most peoples' instincts draw them to this so strongly that they'll invent some imaginary eternal alpha-male dictator/emperor/king/warlord/lord-deity to worship, lest, god forbid, they should find themselves without one.

What the Greek miracle achieved is to invent (besides philosophy/science, the Logos/logic, reason over superstition, medicine, etc.) politics, Democracy and everything else we consider truly civilized.

Basically, that you're not, today, the subservient bitch of some warlord or rabbinate (claiming to speak for some invisible supreme warlord in the sky) is thanks to some great thinkers in 5^th century BC Greece.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-06T14:47:15+00:00

Yes, and corporations, more generally, are greed-driven organizations, systemically so, i.e. designed to be so.

And Adam Smith's Invisible hand is, of course, a myth.

And this myth provides the narrative for the plutocratic/sociopathic scam currently destroying civilization.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-06T09:52:19+00:00

It's a surprising move.

You'd think that Carrefour would let customers decide whether to buy the overpriced crap or not.

And large corporate retailers don't often take the side of consumers against other corporations.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-05T11:50:31+00:00

Who does, truly, own/control this site?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-04T18:29:46+00:00

Yes, agriculture was certainly a factor, a necessary, but (and here's the thing) not a sufficient factor on the path to civilization.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-04T18:02:39+00:00

Yahweh-worshipping clickbait, starting with a straw-man argument followed by the confidently-wrong assertion that demonic possessions(!) have been scientifically established(!!), by which point I realized I had already given the moron too much time.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-04T17:41:04+00:00

There's a tendency to dismiss the creative brilliance of a group of people and to instead assign their brilliance to economic factors:

Materialist conception of history

Inspired by Enlightenment thinkers, especially Condorcet, the utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825) formulated his own materialist interpretation of history, similar to those later used in Marxism, analyzing historical epochs based on their level of technology and organization and dividing them between eras of slavery, serfdom, and finally wage labor. According to the socialist leader Jean Jaurès, the French writer Antoine Barnave was the first to develop the theory that economic forces were the driving factors in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-04T17:30:10+00:00

did you mean Marxist-like?

yes.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-04T15:14:44+00:00

Right, so, if you give some bread or beer to chimps, they become civilized!

But seriously, of course not.

This is materialist (Marxist-like) nonsense.

The brilliance of some people, who also happened to drink wine not beer, created civilization.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-04T15:08:39+00:00

Right, so, when you, mindlessly and without critical thought, are regurgitating whatever superstitious crap was shat-out by some smelly unwashed goat-herders, you imagine yourself to be casting ... 'pearls before swine'(!!), ... the 'swine', of course, being whoever sees the kind of stinking pile of shite you're pushing for what it actually is.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-04T17:34:12+00:00

Only that the civilizers, the Hellenes and Romans, happened to drink wine ... so beer has nothing to do with it.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-04T15:35:30+00:00

OK, so this is likely an actually mindless entity, a bot.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-04T15:17:46+00:00

Ah, the stench of a steaming pile of hasbara early in the morning!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-01-04T14:34:07+00:00

The sooner the worship of Yahweh and its associated drivel fades, the better, ... as it's lasted too long as it is, and has done untold harm to our civilization.

HugodeCrevellier · 2023-12-05T09:58:47+00:00

Using crap written long ago, by self-serving charlatans, to evaluate reality, what could possibly go wrong?

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