ew sarcasm

Just what I’m looking for!

what

You’re making a distinction between

• Seeking power for profit
• Seeking profit for power

How would we empirically tell which is happening?

Why does someone with €20 billion strive to get €30 billion? Will that get them nicer food or a softer bed?

In non-monetary historical societies, the rulers still sought power.

The ruling class, the capitalists, don’t do evil things for the sake of power or control. They do it for profits

Are those very different things? Wealth certainly grants power and control, no?

Having said that, I agree with the spirit of your comment.

That looked ok and I was nodding along until I got to the part where it’ll be governed by Blair and Trump.

why the lying war criminal Blair?

because he has a sterling track record of fixing Middle Eastern countries, of course!

Majority of evolved beings alter behaviour to feel safe, study finds

https://8values.github.io/ is one

Rightwingers had long complained of a censorious leftwing ‘cancel culture’ but seem happy to now reframe that as ‘consequence culture’

That’s incorrect. ‘Censorious’ means quick to censure

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/censorious

I like the parallel to the “wake up, sheeple, do your own research” crowd.

Or “take the red pill”

Any time someone says something like that, they invariably mean “start believing what I believe”

The man stopped and asked, “My friend, what are you? Are you a celestial being or a god?”

“No,” said the Buddha.

“Well, then are you some kind of magician or wizard?”

Again the Buddha answered, “No.”

“Are you a man?”

“No.”

“Well, my friend, then what are you?”

The Buddha replied, “I am woke.”

No, u’r wrong 😜

Different format of discussion.

Social media: people trying to win binary points 👍👎

Wikipedia, scientific discussion, or a deliberative assembly: slow process towards writing a statement of a position, with lots of study along the way

People are trying to ‘win the argument’ for personal satisfaction. They’re not trying to self-correct or seek the truth.

I think I’ve only blocked a handful of people over a decade

I’m the opposite; I have hundreds of people blocked, mostly because they are bores.

I say! Smashing machine old.chap!

Gotta hit that gym to catch up with your partner: https://i2-prod.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/article21161137.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/1_JS201982061.jpg

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=kKwZM8TDEa0