I'm sorry to hear that. It wasn't my comment, was it? I'd have to have upset you.
I've got a pile of climate change books that I'm trying to work through. The problem is, it's depressing af. I can read for a few weeks but then I need time off. Sometimes a day or two will work. Other times I need a month or more.
You do a lot of great research and share it with us but some of the topics are a bit grim. Would it be worth taking a break for you to recover if it's making you feel that way? I wouldn't want you to stop posting but if you need a break, you've got to look after yourself.
Jfc the more I learn about the world the more I'm convinced the fascists didn't lose in the twentieth century, they just changed their mask and tactics. How do any of these people live with themselves?
I like to call it Eurafrica when I'm talking with libs. They dislike being reminded that the foundations of European culture were almost all developed in Africa.
Then when they'd stolen all they could, they forgot about the continent and plummeted into the dark ages until they met west Asians, whose scholarly outputs helped backwards Europe to turn the lights back on.
After draining all they could, they stagnated again until they found the Americas, where they found parliamentary democracy and many other theretofore inconceivable inventions.
Marx called it primitive accumulation when the capitalists started doing it but Europeans have been propping themselves up on the heritage of the rest of the world for millennia. I guess Europe could be called 'Thievesope' but that is a bit tautologous.
There's only so long you can go with empty catchphrases before the reality of 'US support' is obvious to everyone (except western libs, of course, but I'm willing to give more credit to Ukrainians who are on a much sharper side of US promises than are western libs tucked up safe and sound).
You're right, at that. I was thinking of dunks like this:
Classical economy always loved to conceive social capital as a fixed magnitude of a fixed degree of efficiency. But this prejudice was first established as a dogma by the arch-Philistine, Jeremy Bentham, that insipid, pedantic, leather-tongued oracle of the ordinary bourgeois intelligence of the 19th century. Bentham is among philosophers what Martin Tupper is among poets. Both could only have been manufactured in England.
Imagine if libs came along with wit like this. Unlikely, still, but is it worth the risk?
I don't understand pre-ordering games at all. Do they limit sales somehow? Can't you just buy it on the day it's released? I only play games when they come down in price so I've never tried to buy a game on release day.
(Books, however, I regularly pre-order but only when I know the author has finished the book and there's a definite release date; this way it gets shipped to arrive on the release date and I can help authors get up the best seller list (that's why you see all those obscure Marxists at the top of the NYT bestseller list all the time – it's me buying one copy).)
Exactly. Imagine developing space travel and then coming across a species that still largely thinks it can achieve anything by leaving all the great development projects to random individuals – 150 years after the discovery of dialectical and historical materialism. Not exactly a mark of distinction.
Then consider that if aliens manage to get here, the native species believes that they won't have the technology or resources to find out a little about them before they make themselves visible. If aliens do arrive, they'll know everything about us before they show their 'faces' and they'll be stopping off at Beijing first.
Earth's civilisations are so backwards rn, too. If aliens did manage to get here, they would be far more advanced. It would be like walking to the shop and stopping to talk to an ants nest.
I'm sorry to hear that. It wasn't my comment, was it? I'd have to have upset you.
I've got a pile of climate change books that I'm trying to work through. The problem is, it's depressing af. I can read for a few weeks but then I need time off. Sometimes a day or two will work. Other times I need a month or more.
You do a lot of great research and share it with us but some of the topics are a bit grim. Would it be worth taking a break for you to recover if it's making you feel that way? I wouldn't want you to stop posting but if you need a break, you've got to look after yourself.