L.B. Neill
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Can any solution be found in seeking ‘points of equivalence’ in any national struggle?
The very things that unite us as human beings should look above nationalism and ethno-political tensions.
The episteme of lived experience: love, child raising, production of meeting all our needs, and so on.
Nationalisms in all their manifestations seem to have an apex of power and control: a ruling ‘top end class’…
Alan, do you think we can rise above the tensions and see each other as sharing a commonality, thus ending history: ending divisional nationalism and seeing one another as mutual beings assisting one another, or is the stirring of ethnic-national tensions a bane that prevents us from becoming the ‘democracies yet to come’?
Not an easy question: just wanted your take on it as I am trying to be optimistic.
Regards
LB NeillALB. This is a really powerful parable on benign colonialism: points to that notion of charitable acts as ‘stock management’.
I am still mulling over it, might say munching its cud! Thank you for posting on Tolstoy.Oh. Oh.
I am not sure what to type.
Sugar.
I will miss Matt. I am sorry I did drift away from SP…
Alan: Nothing in socialism is under. We long for that ‘don’t follow leaders, watch for parking meters’ as Matt referenced to me once.
Shit… I am really knocked for six.
Loved him.
Liam (L.B. Neill).Well Alan. Seems my visual skill are skewed.. I might see if it is transcripted.
Oh, sorry to post it here: how is matt cuthbert? I have missed his critique of my posts…
I had missed being here: seems I had been on an existential walk about and now feel lost in the politics of things… Matt certainly grounded me in social reality.Incredulity!
What is wrong to make someone think 70,000 plus 1 makes sense!
I hear you on that!
The old guard of state capitalism has many guises- totalitarianism is its number.
Ye shall know it by its use of money and orders.
Workers killing workers sums it up as others have said.I long for people to beat their weapons into plows and notice that if we do not: it is capital interests beating workers as fodder against each other.
Its number is CAPITAL. Its number is one more false ideal sold to a side in a needless conflict. Its number is one dictator surrounded by a mobilised oligarchy surrounded and held together by a state sanctioned apex.
Know it by its focus on one at its apex.
Sorry, a little esoteric in some ways. I am miffed that anyone would shout a old guard hay and hay to the Russian regime based on nostalgia for oppressive state capitalism.
Have a lovely festive season: with no festering.
L.B. NeillHi all,
Adam,
Mike in the Asia region is giving a discord talk in October.
Are you able to help me with the invite to it?
Sorry I could not attend the August one: it happened on my birthday and my family had planned much needed celebrations…
Be safe,
Mr O’Neill 🙂Hi MS,
Yes it is a complex situation indeed. It seems the antivax protests had taken hold.
However on a positive note: Australians are now turning out and getting vaccinated and the lockdowns have continued in many states… I myself am feeling the weight of the restrictions, though I typically spend a lot of time in my mind-scape!
The good news is a lot of ozzies are pro-vaccination (est:95% supportive of vaccine campaigns in general). Yet there are a noisy minority influenced by the Big 12 influencers who wreak havoc on scientific truths on social media… I think Alan had posted on this 12 influencers recently… time to name the network and hold them up to fact checks.
Be safe brother.“A one child limit on births for each and every child rearing/fertile unit of two persons would result in a 50% reduction in earth’s human population in one generation. 7.7 billion reduced to just under 4 billion in one generation…Instead of UBI and UBS, we should pay people to voluntarily block their fertility after their first child.”
What a really sad ideology! Birth control as a welfare payment to the working class and the precariat. Birth as a financial privilege (dominant classes able to freely give birth: another class who are in poverty and have no finance surrender their reproductive rights after the first child just to receive a payment).
Smacks of reproductive control and a commodification of the womb. Wonder who is sterilized: will their thinking fall heavily on women? That is another question!
We have enough resources to our current and future populations, bar the coagulation of wealth and productive resource controlled in the apex structure.
I am reminded of Ian Banks and Ken Macleod literary comments on money: wherever their is money there will be poverty.
Our people are our wealth… every countless one of us is precious.Hi Alan,
Long time since I posted.
I like the idea of keeping the conversations going- that way we learn and progress to at least common points of shared understanding-
I think you know me to be a Christian… and that in the past was never a stopping point for posts and I had learned much from such engagement.
Thank you… and ‘greasy poll’ sounds like a great idea!“Re: common sense …Some find the possibility of socialism so outrageous to common sense that, after becoming acquainted with our case, they opt rather to be flat-earthers, and join those instead! :/”
Thomas, that sounds like me…
Promoting class awareness in faith based communities is thwart with divisions and schisms of all kinds. You will be surprised how many are keen to consider it…
However, we need to have consistent messaging in the social discourse that evidence based science is adhered to during this pandemic- there are enough schisms as it is.
Wez I hear you- bioethics is the engine room that tells us not just what the science is: but regulates its use (a philosophy of science if you will).
I do not think one person here is against science- that is the practitioner of science… just the coagulation of wealth it generates in the form of mass profits.
From your resident flat earther,
🙂Welcome to Britain, the add might say!
Unfair dismissals: well it is an unfair system.
If you feel your rights at work have gone…
… no worries, it is due to your right to be treated unfairly.
Welcome to Britain: making every effort to ensure you receive all the unfairness you are entitled to.
If you have been treated fairly at work: please report it to the Ministry of Unfair.
Next: kids right to workplaces that ensure injury. It is your unfair right!I am not a statistician, but use theoretical probabilities in efficacy of social assistance.
There is a theoretical probability (1 in 2 chances expressed as a percentile is 50%). This is theoretically probable with very large number with 2 possible outcomes. Mass populations, or numbers can arrive at an efficacy of 50:50
However in experimental probability of efficacy, it looks at the actual n or numbers in the control group. I think it is way too early in the roll out and trials to get a theoretical prob- sorry I am use to using p(x) values… so forgive me.
If efficacy stands at 50% in the observable trials- then 50% it is at the moment, could adjust over time.
Control group, sample sizes, are usually equate to the populations and its numbers to capture it, but the error margins will always occur.
This may help or complicate further- but worth a trying challenge!We are political comrades with a common aim and shared strategies to achieve it. Beyond that, personality-wise, we are very diverse individuals – and that is a bonus.
I think this Lumpen thing has gone on for too long. We are diverse people- and yes a bonus.
You may know my flaws too- we must sound like a band of noisy advocates rubbing hurts into one another.
When is the last time anyone spoke positives about one another?
Arguments aside, now and then we might speak good words to each other (I am not offering a group therapy session- would need a team).
