10 Taboo Questions About History and Society
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- Long-term / realistically sustainable.
- Doesnt inherently require the unhappiness of other beings.
Try to derive your own happiness from activities which, one way or another, make other beings happier, make your future self happier, and make the future selves of others happier. Add more consciousness to the Universe when it seems like happiness is possible for the new consciousnesses as well.
I judge all other philosophies in the light of this one. It provides a lot of clarity for me. I understand that many other philosophies can also form a basis for logically coherent activity, and that my own philosophy could put me at odds with various powerful factions and threaten my own well-being should a conflict arise, but I just dont care. The purpose of survival IS to maximize happiness over time for as many beings as possible, and Im not going to let my survival-focused DNA confuse me and compromise my values. I cant handle complicated, cognitively dissonant thought anyway. Ive been working to streamline my entire mind by structuring it around this philosophy.
Long-term, sustainable happiness for all beings is the ultimate goal of the Universe. This is the assumption upon which I try to base all my logic. Sometimes I have to be humble and admit that Ive been selfish.
Date: 2022-07-15
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bruh
I detest the term white bc it lumps in every single European ethnicity/culture into 1 basket w/o any context & historical background. this is the term that'll blindly make a Pole feel white guilt for British colonialism (aka something they & their ancestors had absolutely nothing to do w/, for instance. it's used to collectively blame all Europeans for what 5 Western European nations (the UK, France, Spain, the Netherlands & Portugal) did (large-scale/globe-spanning colonialism incl. the slave trade)
Piero Scaruffi wrote:
White Europeans include Slavs (who never traded African slaves & were used as slaves by the Romans-the word slave comes from Slavic, Scandinavians, Germans, Greeks, etc. None of these bought slaves in Africa and sold them in America. Not even Germany (neither Italy nor Germany existed as unified countries when the slave trade was booming. You dump all of them (just because of their skin color) into one category (white slave-traders) because five European nations (that happen to share the same skin color) engaged in the slave trade
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I detest the term white bc it lumps in every single European ethnicity/culture into 1 basket w/o any context & historical background. this is the term that'll blindly make a Pole feel white guilt for British colonialism (aka something they & their ancestors had absolutely nothing to do w/, for instance. it's used to collectively blame all Europeans for what 5 Western European nations (the UK, France, Spain, the Netherlands & Portugal) did (large-scale/globe-spanning colonialism incl. the slave trade)
Piero Scaruffi wrote:
White Europeans include Slavs (who never traded African slaves & were used as slaves by the Romans-the word slave comes from Slavic, Scandinavians, Germans, Greeks, etc. None of these bought slaves in Africa and sold them in America. Not even Germany (neither Italy nor Germany existed as unified countries when the slave trade was booming. You dump all of them (just because of their skin color) into one category (white slave-traders) because five European nations (that happen to share the same skin color) engaged in the slave trade
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Simone
I am glad you are making some money with having your sponsorships, and I have nothing against Audible as I know nothing about the company. I do think, that if you want to take your studying to the next level, you are going to have to move away from anything published in the Post War era. Use the time we have left in this Golden Age of the Internet (rapidly coming to a close, I think) to find and download or buy out-of-print books. For only one example, you could start with any book on monetary history by Alexander Del Mar, publishing in the late 19th century. There are dozens and dozens of books that have not had too much done to them by the censorship of the modern era. Current works are simply regurgitated and diluted pap, most of the time. There are some gaping holes in our current historical narrative, but I noticed you found one of them in a screenshot of a page from your paper that talks about the Quakers. I just read a 1697 book about them called Snake in the Grass.
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I am glad you are making some money with having your sponsorships, and I have nothing against Audible as I know nothing about the company. I do think, that if you want to take your studying to the next level, you are going to have to move away from anything published in the Post War era. Use the time we have left in this Golden Age of the Internet (rapidly coming to a close, I think) to find and download or buy out-of-print books. For only one example, you could start with any book on monetary history by Alexander Del Mar, publishing in the late 19th century. There are dozens and dozens of books that have not had too much done to them by the censorship of the modern era. Current works are simply regurgitated and diluted pap, most of the time. There are some gaping holes in our current historical narrative, but I noticed you found one of them in a screenshot of a page from your paper that talks about the Quakers. I just read a 1697 book about them called Snake in the Grass.
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PancakesSSBU
I disagree with your point on #8. I think homogenous countries are not better. Look at America for example. I do agree with your point on unity. I think thats its important for society to be tied by something, which America is. America is tied by a singular culture, which has been developed through different cultures fusing into an overarching American culture. However, different regions have different cultures, like southern culture or Midwest, or eastern and western. Of course society is tied together by more than culture, but this is just an example
Im using America because its a good point of reference, not because its the most diverse or even best nation
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I disagree with your point on #8. I think homogenous countries are not better. Look at America for example. I do agree with your point on unity. I think thats its important for society to be tied by something, which America is. America is tied by a singular culture, which has been developed through different cultures fusing into an overarching American culture. However, different regions have different cultures, like southern culture or Midwest, or eastern and western. Of course society is tied together by more than culture, but this is just an example
Im using America because its a good point of reference, not because its the most diverse or even best nation
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Jay
I studied English at university and touched on postmodernism from that perspective. It was viewed more as a complex view of how grand narratives come about and what can be said about them, rather than the nothing-means-anything and everything is equal sort of vibe it has today. So instead of seeing religion as God made the universe, we do as God bids, it was how are religions codified, how do written texts and their translations come about and produce change within that religion. What other aspects of culture bleed into religion and vice versa. Back then, to some degree, I think your complex view of history would've been called postmodern. Really enjoy your work.
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I studied English at university and touched on postmodernism from that perspective. It was viewed more as a complex view of how grand narratives come about and what can be said about them, rather than the nothing-means-anything and everything is equal sort of vibe it has today. So instead of seeing religion as God made the universe, we do as God bids, it was how are religions codified, how do written texts and their translations come about and produce change within that religion. What other aspects of culture bleed into religion and vice versa. Back then, to some degree, I think your complex view of history would've been called postmodern. Really enjoy your work.
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Beati
1. Glad to see Epicurus at 9: 43 in the originals, he is the most misunderstood.
2. I feel kinda dirty seeing this video and not paying at least $100.
3. Basing eveything on a single holy-grail-idea is a recipe to disaster.
4. Someone could say that your two pictures at 15: 08 are the same, taking account the arbitrariness of calibration of the measuring instrument and its time variability due to many factors. But this is not the case.
5. Here let me help you with something: Your whole video is soaked with something that you don't realize: The notion of partial order.
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1. Glad to see Epicurus at 9: 43 in the originals, he is the most misunderstood.
2. I feel kinda dirty seeing this video and not paying at least $100.
3. Basing eveything on a single holy-grail-idea is a recipe to disaster.
4. Someone could say that your two pictures at 15: 08 are the same, taking account the arbitrariness of calibration of the measuring instrument and its time variability due to many factors. But this is not the case.
5. Here let me help you with something: Your whole video is soaked with something that you don't realize: The notion of partial order.
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roy
I have a friend who was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, and her husband was a run of the mill janitor. Their sons graduated from UCSF one on electrical engineering the other computer engineering both graduated early with honors & Both went on to graduate schools where once again they grayed with honors. I also have friends who are certified geniuses, who's kids are just average or barely above. So much for treating humans like race horses thinking you could breed a master race like in Adolphs nocturnal emissions.
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I have a friend who was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, and her husband was a run of the mill janitor. Their sons graduated from UCSF one on electrical engineering the other computer engineering both graduated early with honors & Both went on to graduate schools where once again they grayed with honors. I also have friends who are certified geniuses, who's kids are just average or barely above. So much for treating humans like race horses thinking you could breed a master race like in Adolphs nocturnal emissions.
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storminmormin14
I think diversity matters because it fundamentally makes a system hard to destroy. Diversity of skin color doesnt accomplish that for human societies but diversity of ideas, cultures, genetics, etc do. I think a good example is the Navajo code talkers. The Japanese had to invest their limited intelligence resources into learning both English and Navajo if they wanted to begin to understand our codes whereas we just had these people at our disposal.
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I think diversity matters because it fundamentally makes a system hard to destroy. Diversity of skin color doesnt accomplish that for human societies but diversity of ideas, cultures, genetics, etc do. I think a good example is the Navajo code talkers. The Japanese had to invest their limited intelligence resources into learning both English and Navajo if they wanted to begin to understand our codes whereas we just had these people at our disposal.
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Beckett
whatifaltist has some hot takes but he backs them up with real logic and evidence. even though i dont 100% agree with everything he says i respect his opinions because there is a real reason he believes them. the american government could take lessons lol. i wish our politics could be conducted with this level of logic and sophistication so i could have respect for the other fifty percent of our government
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whatifaltist has some hot takes but he backs them up with real logic and evidence. even though i dont 100% agree with everything he says i respect his opinions because there is a real reason he believes them. the american government could take lessons lol. i wish our politics could be conducted with this level of logic and sophistication so i could have respect for the other fifty percent of our government
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education
If genetics predicates I. Q then why would the most genetically diverse continent score so lowly? Simple prejudice on the whole I. Q system. They are trying to convince us that a whole continent has the average I. q of someone with down syndrome is frankly intellectually insulting. And anyone who believes Africans have a low I. q is pandering to their own deep prejudice.
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If genetics predicates I. Q then why would the most genetically diverse continent score so lowly? Simple prejudice on the whole I. Q system. They are trying to convince us that a whole continent has the average I. q of someone with down syndrome is frankly intellectually insulting. And anyone who believes Africans have a low I. q is pandering to their own deep prejudice.
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