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I'm a marxist as well, so you're preaching to the choir there. I also happen to be an anarchist, and rather than putting laws in place (which would be impossible to enforce), I thi…

I'm not advocating politeness, I'm advocating for an egalitarian society. Women have historically been less free to express themselves, and sexist jokes and other discriminatory la…

Wow, that's literally insane. Yes, let's see if we can undermine this elegant and stable natural process that has evolved over billions of years so that we can avoid the uncomforta…

Yeah, it's still not the best way to put it, it's kind of tautological in itself. Maybe the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy fits better.

> For most of us, it's just paycheck to paycheck now. Everything is going according to plan. When you see how perfectly all of this lines up with the interests of the plutocrats yo…

That's what's so twisted about the American Dream™, is that it's the desire for a certain type of individual freedom, but a freedom that is always based on the subjugation of other…

That's how I see it too. The article seemed to focus on, yeah you can buy more stuff but stuff doesn't make you happy. Yeah, we know that, what money really buys you is the freedom…

It's quite simple to explain the causality. When you break everything down it eventually comes down to physics (ok so it's not that simple to explain, but it's conceptually simple)…

No, no, I'm all about the discussion. Shit, this is more to test my ideas than to assert any sort of truth. Maybe another question will get us closer to the root of the issue: Whos…

I've been thinking about that idea as well. Would it make sense to see them less as "useful lies" and more as "self-referential truths", wherein the statement can be either true or…

I think this misses the point of the article and these types of discussions in general. To me, the value of this perspective is that it takes the ego out of this self-directed narr…

> Yet the "witch hunt" that seems to permeate through society seems to suggest that they should. Huh, it's almost as if people realize that the legal system is not in line with our…

I agree that the buying of political influence is the root problem here, but are there any proposals to deal with it? What are the models that are used in investigating it?

Not blindly imitating European countries is one thing, being ignorant of their policies and their effects is another. The latter is the case here, and it would take some pretty con…

I can only assume that you missed the part where I linked to the evidence you said didn't exist?

The Einstein quote comes to mind: "We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them." There are a whole host of assumptions that your arguments rest …

> Just because we happen to be alive for this one? Uh, yeah, that'd be it. What with all the massive extinction events and all, it might be in our interest to minimize the effects.…

But that doesn't stop the ideologues in power from running companies as if it is.

Obviously the circumstances are different, you wouldn't use this as a one-to-one model, but that doesn't mean there aren't things we can learn, and it certainly doesn't justify the…

They took the exact opposite course during the financial crisis and experts from the IMF and other Nobel laureates have credited that for their remarkable recovery. As our economy …

If they are not, market theory would predict that they would be replaced by entities that are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model#Case_examples Just because you are ignorant of the evidence doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Your comment doesn't seem to address the idea that I was bringing up, that the media has a role in shaping what people care about rather than being an impartial conduit that is sla…

How would the media know that their viewers don't care about Iceland if they never told their viewers about Iceland in the first place? I don't understand why people insist on usin…