being simple math- 2+2=4. Most societies depend on a strong treasury
and superior weapons to thrive and survive but that's no guarantee-
consider the bloodbath path of the British monarchy which I have been
re-reading! Human flaws exert themselves and the masses flip their
alleigences or frankly, do not wish to be bothered. Even families
coast on delusions and denials. There is no reasonable explanation why
we have backed ourselves into this corner of time. Natural disaters,
excluded.//I was hoping you would understand my statement about two
drinks=love; I also meant love of alcohol and the suspension of
judgement and responsibilty but it was a layered statement.
On Mar 15, 6:33 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is true rigs - but the deeper point on this is about how we
> maintain a more collective form of madness and lack the means to
> question it without massive resistance. I forget most of Freud these
> days James, though I'm looking at Weber again. I rather like the idea
> of looking at ourselves as Jared Diamond suggests in terms of
> societies that went barking into ecocide. I'm not really a tree
> hugger (though have been known to hug trees), but feel we have to find
> ways to admit we've got most things upside down. On the personal
> paranoid side James, I now find myself believing very little outside
> of science in the guise of public argument and academic trivia. I've
> long believed creativity is killed stone dead by 'smiling ignorance'
> and daft ideas like brainstorming - because the critical edge needs to
> be sharp and stun the ideological trance.
>
> I find myself a proponent of de-schooling after so much time in
> education. Apple is now 'worth more' (in market capitalisation) than
> the whole of US retail. I don't like being retailed and would be
> happy to see the shops go in favour of more direct sales. What we
> miss is stuff like this means we are finding new efficiencies, but
> retain the same old ideas on what jobs are for. Fear not, the
> private sector cavalry will ride in with new products and services -
> but where are they? My guess is this is all to do with our easy
> acceptance of positive gloss and lack of ability to take
> responsibility for new ways of living. This is so bad we 'believe'
> that global competition will do something other than put us all on
> Chinese wages and conditions.
>
> On Mar 15, 6:12 am, rigsy03 <rigs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Sociopaths exist in all socio-economic groups.
>
> > On Mar 14, 9:32 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I particularly like the research on investment CEOs that shows they
> > > over-rate their abilities and actually produce 'negative alpha' rather
> > > than competent investment decisions - these being the very people who
> > > threaten to go away if we restrict their 'earnings'. The quick
> > > portrait of Steve Jobs also demonstrates a main theme of the 'rich are
> > > mean' in his selfish world in which rules do not apply to him. One
> > > wonders whether Apple might be an American manufacturer (and so on) if
> > > we had proper economic rules that stop chancers like him doing their
> > > immoral stuff?
>
> > > On Mar 14, 2:23 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > >http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=opting-out-of-overop...
>
> > > > This is an interesting little story covering some of the research
> > > > demonstrating people are over-optimistic and this has dangerous
> > > > outcomes. I winder if this is how the peculiar views on economics
> > > > most hold and the dominance of cheery types in our media?- Hide quoted text -
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