Good points! And this draws attention to the "third party" problem I
mentioned. Only to a third party, analyzing the events before them, would
"High_contrast_round_things" be a bird-symbol for "Seeds". To the bird it
is whatever it is, and is not a symbol of anything. Should the third party
misiden
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> Pentecostal or other Evangelical churches
Pretty dramatic example of The Problem Of Class.
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Marcus Daniels
wrote:
> "Support Classless Society: Invite blue collar folks to wedtech lunch and
> friam coffee/breakfast. Oops, forgot, they're working."
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> "Hmm
"Police get solid wages, great benefits, and a respected place in their
communities. For elites to write them off as racists is a telling example of
how, although race- and sex-based insults are no longer acceptable in polite
society, class-based insults still are."
Williams demonstrates, yet a
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They are attributes of the parts. These parts have failed to recognize their
own corruption and participation in implicit bias, and it is on them, not
`elites' to `educate' them on how to think.
My last two cars have been relatively expensive hybrid cars made in Michigan.
All things
At the risk of pissing off a lot of my friends, Owen's proposal strikes me as
tokenism at its worst. If we elites want to do more than talking to and
emailing each other, I’d suggest that we instead spend some of our time doing
something to help the sad state of education and the economy in NM.
On 11/14/2016 09:20 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> They are attributes of the parts. These parts have failed to recognize
> their own corruption and participation in implicit bias, and it is on them,
> not `elites' to `educate' them on how to think.
But you're relying on the same whole/part ambi
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In a democracy, we are equals. They've acted in their own self- interest, and
I didn't really need to. I voted for our collective interest, which was, as
far as I am concerned, sabotaged in obscene fashion by rust belt voters,
possibly for generations. Individuals that don't listen to
I think I agree with Ed.
I've had epic rants about what boils down to a few things as a biger
picture problems:
Peoples Maslows being messed with
Stuff getting to gloopy
Stuff being made overly complicated
To little simple joy
Aholery.
In other words: where's star fleet, picard and kirk when you n
I don't want my email to sound to doom and gloom. I'm experiencing first
hand many of the problems Ed mentioned in his response.
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Gillian Densmore
wrote:
> I think I agree with Ed.
> I've had epic rants about what boils down to a few things as a biger
> picture p
Problem: Apartment needs some TLC.
Whaat: some stuff like my front door might need replacing or fixing. some
patch up stuff like tiles and and stucko
Is their a outfit or handyman that people have used who can help give my
place some much needed TLC?
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Glen -
Not to be argumentative, but:
/Yes, the racist attributes of the system map to the individual's
myopia, their inability to extrapolate to the consequences of their
own actions. But at the system layer, the attribute is racism. At
the individual layer, the attributes are not ra
perhaps an example, perhaps not:
all humans, probably all animals, are innately xenophobic, we are all
afraid of the "other." This is nature. But, fear of the black man, or
the woman, or whatever, comes about only when our context, the
collective / the culture gives definition to the xenophobic "o
My adopted daughter was born in Mexico. She lived in Pittsburgh for over a
year before we moved to Santa Fe. She went to a small, private
kindergarten there which was very diverse with Asians, Arabs, African
Americans, and many blonde Americans. After she had been in school in
Santa Fe for awhil
On 11/14/2016 12:50 PM, Prof David West wrote:
all humans, probably all animals, are innately xenophobic, we are all afraid of the
"other." This is nature. But, fear of the black man, or the woman, or whatever, comes
about only when our context, the collective / the culture gives definition to
I don't want to distract the conversation, so consider this as an aside:
The "monotheistic right" aka the "religious right" does indeed believe
that all humans are intrinsically evil, but capable of redemption if
they subscribe to and submit to religious authority. This is true of
christianity, is
Dave wriets:
"The secular right — and yes there really is such a thing — believes the
opposite, i.e. that humans are intrinsically good, but subject to corruption.
[perhaps the only good thing, for the republican party, in trump's ascendancy
is the opportunity to take back the party from the re
David -
I think that is a good example... at least for me.
I have struggled with this duality all of my life... having a natural
curiosity about other places/things/people and that innate "fear of
difference or unknown", I have had an almost morbid fascination with
playing up against "the Oth
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