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Fascinating opportunity for introspection.

Existing

I went to school in the Midwest and a good example of this is if you had a hybrid/remote job in Louisville or Cincy, it would likely be much better for your health to live in Madis…

It's a fascinating subject and one I love to "argue" about when I'm traveling for work and at a bar in the city, people get really fired up! We all dig in to support our life choic…

Driving in a city, absolutely. (Although I rarely had a stress-free morning on the DC Metro) Driving in rural areas or across the western US - piece of cake and even relaxing.

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I definitely chose my phrasing by design: "less healthy" I have no doubt there are vigorous academic arguments happening whether there are ways to mitigate the stress of population…

Highly online life leads to instability. It's like living your life in a packed subway car. Stress response. This is why cities are less healthy for you as well.

It is not an issue of depth. Wikipedia is a hive of mimetic scapegoating, and it doesn't hold the patent on that problem. And this usually, ultimately, leads to real world violence…

I made no mention of notability, it's such an obvious point that it doesn't need to be made. The Shen Yun Performing Arts people are pre-Communism traditionalist Chinese. Which is …

You're making my point for me.

Because of a different thread I thought of another subtle, yet similar example. Look at the Wikipedia entry for The Verge. It's a media product, a tech news site, all good. But it'…

Goes hand in hand.

Just because it is propaganda doesn't mean it won't have actionable information within it. It just means that you cannot shut off your brain and consume any of it - ever. Every las…

Why would anyone have "no idea" about this? We're literally surrounded by women - moms, sisters, friends, wives - our entire lives. This is not some secret knowledge that men canno…

Media is and has always been propaganda. All of it. You have to start from there to make sense of the world. We ran into trouble at some point with critical thinking. I believe pro…

Does this non-profit media also believe in a technological society? Perhaps with an allergy to challenging the concept of this type of science in the first place?

Agree, but this assumes humans would ever had used it for anything else.

Please read all of Neil Postman's work immediately. It's much bigger than the oven. Thank you.

Or you could see it as "poisoning the well" - an approach so common and accepted that neither of you see it, apparently. Although clearly a lefty news organization, I don't see the…

Many people asking for examples. For an easy one (among millions) just compare The New York Times Wikipedia article to the article for The Epoch Times. "Oh, but The Epoch Times is …

Have you heard of negative interest rates? This is so real that it is real. Also real: the wild "insanity" that is the picture painted by the writer of this Harper's piece is also …

Large cities would not exist without agriculture. Agriculture is a technology. I understand why it's not popular to talk about this stuff. We're pretty much stuck with all of it, I…

It is much different. People who live in more dense environments experience more stress, and stressed people behave differently, they interact (or don't interact) with people diffe…