Race and Technology

“Mutual Reproductive Success”

What is “mutually successful” when a horse mates with a donkey?

Can mules produce fertile offspring? Can drones?

Let’s ignore thousands of years of developing nothing, before evil whitey arrived.

By the way
I was the first to criticize Greece
 are you confusing me for something or someone else?

I am for truth


Self imposed in your head.

We are one species.
You are confused

no its you who’s always gotta be right, even when he is proven wrong.

i AGREED we are all one species, ya numbnuts?

and when i say boundaries, i mean that is LITTERALLY the function of Consciousness, not politics, not race, but CONSCIOUSNESS itself
 its how brains function, by delineating boundaries
 otherwise brains cannot function, its how you determine what is an object is from background, by creating boundaries to define what the object is

you are asking to REMOVE functionality and REMOVE features, if they are features that don’t agree with your woke racial theories

African advancements in graffiti are impressive.
Super soaker technologies will determine future geopolitical balances.

Remember 
only for ONE species this is so

What appears to be different
is actually the same.

Sub-species


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LOL.
Aside from the basic confusion and inconsistency of definition


Well this is priceless.
Read the captions to the image you posted!!
Thanks for proving my point
“Same species, same subspecieis, race isn’t real, stop being a bigot.”

Way over your head, huh dude?
You don’t grasp sarcasm?
:smirking_face:

Let’s ignore appearances because our senses evolved to fool us, only when it comes to ONE species.
:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Let’s ignore differences in academic and athletic performances.
:grin:
Let’s ignore crime stats and average IQs.
:sweat_smile:

Let’ ignore Noble prizes and participation in the high arts, technological innovations
by equating graffiti with the sculpture of David, and super soakers with internal combustion engines

:rofl:
Then, let’s ignore historical evidence
the absence of comparable civilizations, unable to even be placed on the same level in engineering, architecture, weaponry, navigation, husbandry, astrology, medicine, philosophy, the fine arts, physics, biology, economics, and on and on and on
let’s ignore all of it
and simply repeat


Race is a social construct. :folded_hands:
Let’s repeat it until we believe it
until we become stupid enough to believe it
because it feels good
because it makes us feel just, and compassionate, and safe.

If I were you I’d keep your head down.
I do not know where you got you pretty picture from, but its not even inherently consistent.
But thanks for verifying that all humans are a single subspecies.

Sculptor has issues understanding nuanced language.
He thinks this image supports his delusions.

But then, he thinks super soakers are comparable to muskets, because they made money.
This is how this idiot measures quality.

Nothing can cure that level of dumb.

See, there he goes again. He has no capacity [as far as I know] to connect the dots – empirically, experientially, experimentally – between the creation of matter itself and the human brain. He just believes what he does “here and now” in his head. After all, it’s what he believes that makes it true.

Yes, we often define words. And, of course, we define them “as we do”. But noting this is not the same as demonstrating that we define them autonomously. Again, unless he is prepared to describe how free will does unfold neuron by neuron, dendrite by denrite, cell body by cell body, axon by axon.

Satyr:

No dear
not “as we do”
we use definitions to refer to what is independent from our subjective perceptions.

Down to earth, woman
you know.
Start with actions, not words in books.
The perceived limits how we can define concepts, Mary
and that’s what you dislike.

You want them to remain “up in the sky” dear
because then you can define them in whatever way suits your Marxist agenda.
It’s your way, or the highway

Note to others:

Satyr likes to think of himself as a “serious philosopher”. Yet over and again he’ll post what I construe to be the equivalent of intellectual drivel above.

Yes, I know: If I do say so myself.

Same thing. The assumption is always that if you don’t share his own value judgments [about every single thing under the Sun, to cite just one example] then that confirms all the more his assessment of you.

No, I have not settled for fatalism. I am no less drawn and quartered regarding determinism. But what I note here about myself is moot. Same for others. If what we post doesn’t coincide with his own moral, political and philosophical prejudices
?

Forget about it!

Satyr:

The opposite in fact
lying woman.

Compete
give me a value judgement relative to YOUR objective

My objective is truth.
What’s yours?

Mine is to note what I construe to be an important distinction between truth in the either/or world and truth in the is/ought world. Given aNo God universe. And, no, not up in the philosophical clouds either.

Satyr:

ALL VALUE JUDGEMENTS refer to an OBJECTIVE, dear.
Even your abortion evaluations.

Okay, let’s explore his own philosophical/moral/political assumptions about abortion. Mine are encompassed in the OPs here:

How are his own assumptions different?

Satyr:

Different objective create different value judgements
and none of them are equal.
What’s the determining factor, which no subjective judgement can evade?
Nature.
For you the objective is inclusivity, equity, peace on earth
for the conservative it is the welfare of society, dominance etc.
Different objectives create these disagreements, woman.

Nature. Yet he challenges anyone who is foolish enough to suggest his own assessment of nature is not correct. And going all the way back to the Big bang, no doubt. And my objective is to explore the possibility that “inclusivity, equity [and] peace on earth” are within reach of either the philosophical community or the scientific community. Here and now however I remain fractured and fragmented, drawn and quartered, pulled and tugged ambivalently.

“He wishes to see a world where races separate into communities of their own kind. How would he go about accomplishing this in terms of specific policies? Let him come down out of the philosophical clouds here and provide us with his own assessment of the best of all possible worlds
racially, ethnically, sexually and in regard to things like gender roles and Jews.

Or the part where he reacts to what many construe to be Trump’s racist policies. What’s he doing right and what more needs to be done?

Satyr:

I don’t give a shit about your America and Trump, woman.

I gave you an answer and you didn’t like it

Tell me what answer you want

Concentration camps and gas chambers?
Is that the “right” answer, dear
so I do not “wiggle wiggle”?
How about torture chambers and furnaces
that’ll solve the problem.
Satisfied, Mary?
Is that the answer you wanted me to give?

Given the wide gap between how he and I construe “right answers” here regarding race, and how race relations have unfolded over the centuries, I am curious as to how far he would take his “separating the races” mentality. As of now, for example, can he assure people of color [black, brown and red in particular] that he would not pursue “concentration camps and gas chambers” as, historically, those racists like Hitler championed?

And would his own separation policies be voluntary? And what might be at stake for those who did challenge these polices?

Note to others:

Given that I don’t read many of his posts here [and there], please link me to anything he has posted which does connect the dots between being a racist and specific policies he would enact once in power.

Satyr:

I told you what I would do if I were lord god of the cosmos, mutiple times
here it is again, pathetic female

Real diversity, not your fake American kind

Autonomy.
Let every ethnicity live in accordance with their values, in their own land.
If they criminalize abortions, then that’s their provocative
not your way, your postmodern liberal American way.

Of course, any number of black folks in America are here only because any number of white folks took them away from their own land. Made them slaves in our land. Then the part where the white race practiced “manifest destiny” here and all but wiped out American indians. The red race.

And [as always] back to the part whereby, even if the white race did separate themselves and formed their own community in a Satyr nation, they would still be expected to cohere entirely to his own racial dogma. Not to mention everything pertaining to gender roles and Jews and human sexuality.

Satyr:

The only kind of diversity you dumb Americans udnerstand is fashion, menu options, brands, music genres
that’s not diversity, dear.
You want every city in the world to have a McDonald’s and a Walmart
I don’t.
I want TRUE diversity.
I want Tokyo to be something completely different from LA
and Karachi to be nothing like Detroit.
Ethnic, cultural diversity
each living in accordance to their own values, not your pseudo-Democratic, American liberal values


Back to this then:

Over and again, he will post things like this. You tell me what it has to do with my point above. The suggestion that, as with Ayn Rand, he champions the individual over the collective, but all of the individuals in his clique/claque are required to think exactly like he does at KT
or else they are banned from the discussions themselves.

Satyr:

Idiotic woman
I am not an individualist.
:face_with_thermometer:
I know it’s hard for you to understand
after years of reading my posts, you still know nothing about my views.

You want me to be a defender of Capitalism, and American individualism, like Rand, because that’s the only thing you udnerstand
or a Nazi, with a ‘final solution’
you udnerstand nothing else.

What I still don’t understand is how his own racialist/racist mentality would actually unfold existentially if he did walk his talk politically.

Given a particular moral conflagration, how would he “for all practical purposes” make a distinction between the individual and the collective? between I and we and all that are deemed to be Other? between “one of us”, and “one of them”?

Satyr:

Then she returns to her spiel, as if I’ve posted nothing.

“I was born a daughter of a middle class family
blah blah blah”
the same mantra for years..
:laughing:

Right, like he hasn’t spewed his own philosophical, moral and political prejudices for years. Here, of course, though especially there.

Again, given his reaction to the arguments I raised in the OP above regarding abortion, how are his value judgments derived differently? Instead, in my view, the main difference between us is that I acknowledge just how profoundly problematic my own conclusions are here, while he is ever and always huffing and puffing whenever encountering challenges to his beliefs.

Just out of curiosity, will he acknowledge that in regard to his own moral and political convictions, he has been wrong in the past? Will he go there? Because once you admit that you were wrong about an important frame of mind in the past, you are acknowledging that you may be wrong about other important things here and now as well.

I merely note how I came to understand this more clearly [existentially] in regard to my own evolving value judgments.

Satyr:

That’s why she doesn’t want her will to be free
because her own is trapped in a loop
a hole
and she is terrified of getting out.
Her understanding of Dasein is “thrown into the world”, ‘world’ meaning ‘society.’
World = society
and man is a Tabula Rasa.
Man is whatever culture made him

This is how dumb this woman is.

This is so far removed from how I would describe myself, I won’t waste my time “correcting” him. That would be like “correcting” Immanuel Can over at the PN forum. Meet Mr. Wiggle there in regard to the Christian God. And meet Mr. Wiggle here in regard to dasein.

Okay, okay: if I do say so myself.

Let him choose a moral conflagration that is of particular importance to him. We can then exchange moral philosophies. That way as I go about posting there, he can note more specially all the things he accuses me of.

Satyr:

I already have woman.
Let’s stay with abortion.

What is your objective when you want to give women the ability to abort the fetus when they made a mistake or changed their mind?
What will be the impact on society?
How will it affect demographics and a society’s ability to maintain itself and to compete with other societies?
What kind of psychology will it cultivate among women, and men, knowing that they can take a pill or visit a clinic to abort the fetus any time they want?

More to the point [mine] are those dogmatists all up and down the moral spectrum who will insist their own rooted existentially in dasein political prejudices are anything but that. Whether in regard to God or Ideology or Deontology or Biological Imperatives, only their own conclusions are likely to be confirmed once we have finally pinned down how “the human condition” fits into a comprehensive understanding of existence itself. In other words, I suspect, long after he and I are dead and gone.

[b]It’s the fact that neither philosophers nor scientists have come together to provide us with a definitive assessment of race that speaks volumes.

Satyr:

I would be worried if they did, Mary.

No, in my view, he would only be worried – not to mention entirely outraged – if the consensus rejected his own “my way or the highway” dogma here and chose another One True Path instead. Whereas if they rejected mine it wouldn’t surprise me at all. I often reject it myself from time to time. And even the parts I’m most linked to here.

Actually, in my opinion, none of us here are able to explain why [ultimately] anything exists at all, let alone how, over billions of years, it evolved into us.

Satyr:

Wrong!
Woman
that life exists is obvious.
We don’t need to know how it started to know it exists.

Right, what could an understanding of existence itself possibly have to do with us today? Nothing? A little? A lot? Everything?

Satyr:

That morality exists, is obvious, if we start with the moral act, not words in books, or chiseled on stone tablets.
We witness moral acts: acts of compassion, of love, of altruism, in many species
not only our own.

And even though any number of these folks



will insist that only their own assessment of how moral convictions are intertwined in genes and memes count. This, however, is what makes them morons. And [trust me] makes him a flat-out moron to some of them as well.

Satyr:

That we ‘will’ (choose, act intentionally) is obvious. We experience it daily.
That you CHOOSE to define these concepts abstractly,
 rather, that you choose a definition, because you are too dumb to define anything on your own, that keep these concepts up on the “skyhooks,” is your Choice, based on YOUR Marxist objectives.

Simply ridiculous. And I suspect a growing part of him recognizes just how ridiculous others might construe it to be. But he’s been stuck now for years defending his own rendition of the “psychology of objectivism” above. Thus, it’s not what he believes so much as the fierce conviction that what he believes is not just the best of all possible worlds, but the only truly rational account there can ever be of it.

To the extent that someone is not willing to acknowledge the gap between what they think they know “in their head” about the universe, about gravity, about QM, about the human brain, etc., and all that there is to know about them going back to
to what? to where? to when? to how? to why?

Satyr:

And that’s what philosophy is about.
Determining which theory is more probable and which is not.

It’s called the scientific method
empiricism, woman.
Never heard of it?
It deals in theories, not certainties.
This does not mean every theory is equally probable


Where even to begin [again]
!

Notice how his focus is on determining which theory regarding things like race is more correct. Whereas my focus is more on the extent to which conflicting theories about it are brought down to Earth, confronting actual ongoing social, political and economic interactions that revolve around race.

As for the scientific method dealing in theories rather than certainties, sure, the further out on the limb that we go [ i.e. the world of the staggering large and the staggering small], the more uncertainty is sustained. On the other hand, look around you at all of the astounding engineering feats and all of the extraordinary technologies science has brought into existence.

Where is the philosophical equivalent of this in regard to value judgments in conflict?

Again


To the extent that someone is not willing to acknowledge the gap between what they think they know “in their head” about the universe, about gravity, about QM, about the human brain, etc., and all that there is to know about them going back to
to what? to where? to when? to how? to why?

Well, it’s just
just
just there.

Come on, why on Earth do you suppose that millions and millions of men and women around the globe still fall back on God and religion to explain us? Got a soul? Okay, then thank the Lord.

Heidegger
wasn’t he a Nazi?

As for it being crap, I don’t deny that it certainly might be completely wrong. It’s just my “best guess” given all the variables in my life that predisposed me existentially to believe some things and not others. Same with him and everyone else here. Unless, of course, I’m wrong.[/quote]

Satyr:

:rofl:|20x20
There’s the Nazi thing, as predicted.
Yes
and so he’s wrong, right?

Now you can take his cocnept, Dasein, and define it in whatever way you like
because he’s a Nazi
and
the Holocaust.

Come on, what I’ve asked of him in regard to race is to note the parts that, in his view, Hitler and the Nazis got right, and the parts they got wrong. And many I suspect would be considerably less inclined to call him a Nazi if he assured them that he has nothing in mind in regard to “final solutions”.

Yes, I have managed to think myself into believing what I do “here and now” regarding “I” in the is/ought world. No God and it just makes sense that morally and politically we exchange ever conflicting existential assessments rooted historically and culturally and [in terms of our own unique personal experiences] experientially in dasein.

Satyr:

More of her gibberish

:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
After years of this crap, it’s becoming tiresome to wade through it.

People stopped talking to her
as did I.
But now
I want to trigger her
and receive the predictable results.

As always, I am more than willing to encourage others here to make up their own minds regarding this exchange. Taking into account, of course, the “politics” involved.

But to argue that I “like” how my own existence is essentially meaningless and purposeless, that a fractured and fragmented moral philosophy seems reasonable in a No God universe and that death equals oblivion
? That speaks far, far more about him than it does me.

Satyr:

You don’t even know what my positions are.
You are debating these mysterious Nazi Objectivists
and if the other doesn’t play along, he’s wiggling

This woman thinks I’m an individualist, as her American mind understands it
this is how pathetic she is.

Hell, I’m the first to admit that my assumptions here in regard to conflicting value judgments are no more than what I construe to be my own philosophical, political and moral prejudices rooted existentially in dasein.

All that’s then left [in my view] is this part:

Well, if he is willing to compare and contrast moral philosophies with me in regard to particular sets of circumstances, we can explore the existential dynamic between words and worlds. Between “this is what I believe is true” and "this is what I can demonstrate that all rational men and women are obligated to accept as true.

Satyr:

[b] Your brainwashing is the issue, Mary.

On the other hand, how many men and women does he know who, as children, were not brainwashed? He was brainwashed himself as a child, of course. Also, like all the rest of us, he is a product of a particular historical and cultural context whereby he accumulated any number of uniquely personal experiences that the rest of us may well have had no experience regarding whatsoever.

Satyr:

Mary
just admit it
you are a communist.
Say it, openly and proudly.

Okay, back to it all being a “condition” then? Fine, that works for me.

Satyr:

So, you are a Communist who wants to change the world, right?
All those years projecting this upon others was a lie.

For whatever reason, he seems compelled to post preposterous things like this. What, is he being provocative for its own sake?

And in regard to this


And there have been any number of situations in my past where my thinking and my emotions were shifting dramatically and thus up to a point out of sync. When I first became a devout Christian. When I became a Marxist and an atheist. When I flirted with the Unitarian Church and with Objectivism. When I shifted from Lenin to Trotsky. When I abandoned Marxism and became a Democratic Socialist and then a Social Democrat. When I discovered existentialism and deconstruction and semiotics and abandoned objectivism altogether. When I became a moral nihilist. When I began to crumble into an increasingly more fragmented “I” in the is/ought world.


I note how my own value judgments have shifted over the years. I didn’t think of them as “lies” however. Instead they reflected a genuine commitment to them “at the time”. Lies were what all those who refused to think exactly as I did “at the time” were spouting. And even now with my focus on the existential implications of moral nihilism, I note how I am unable to demonstrate this empirically, experientially or experimentally. In fact, my main aim is to explore this with the moral objectivists. I’m hoping to bump into someone able to provide me with arguments that enable me to yank myself up out of the hole I’m in in regard to meaning and morality.

Satyr:

You are the one who wants to change the world.

No, I’m the one who “here and now” is intent on examining not what others believe about the world – about conflicting goods, about race – but the extent to which they are able to demonstrate why their own assessments reflect that which all rational men and women are obligated to accept in turn.

And then the extent to which they recognize the role that dasein plays here.

Right, like he hasn’t spewed his own philosophical, moral and political prejudices for years. Here, of course, though especially there.

What does “political prejudice” mean, Mary?
Not aligned to conventional ethical standards?
Not in agreement with conventional beliefs?
Unpopular?
What are my political motives, miss Land?
My only motive is truth
and you are prejudiced against it, so anyone speaking the truth is, according to you, promoting a political agenda
because you use yourself as a standard, abed you project.

When I insist that race is genetic, it isn’t to promote any agenda, pathetic woman, it is to reveal the truth to those living in lies.
If I say species, and sub-species exist, am I saying some ought to be exploited or slaughtered?
Stop using your subjective understanding of yourself to project into whatever threatens it.
Truth is, and will remain, my only agenda, miss Land.
If it hurts your feelings, it is not intentional.

Just out of curiosity, will he acknowledge that in regard to his own moral and political convictions, he has been wrong in the past? Will he go there?

Where, Miss Land, have I been wrong?
That’s up to you to prove and offer a “correct alternative.”
All you do is patronize, mock, and declare
because you cannot rationalize your own collectivist objective.
All you can do is undermine, hoping that this will promote what you cannot defend.

My position is that morality evolved to facilitate cooperative survival strategies
and that ALL VALUE JUDGEMENTS including morals, HAVE AN OBJECTIVE.
Morality’s primal objective is survival
by disciplining individual actions to collective needs.
No god required.
If you have a better explanation, then present it Mary
then explain how this morality was imposed on the entire world, for so long, and why all ethical systems share similar rules.
Then explain upon what standard your critique of Hitler and Rand is based, since you are “amoral.”
Why is Hitler ‘evil’ Mary, if morality is a social construct, as well, and nobody has a real choice?
What are you accusing him of, Mary?

Mary, I was wrong many times in my life
one was taking you seriously, early on.
Won’t make that mistake again.
You have become my means
 :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

You aren’t interested in truth, Mary, the object of philosophy, you are interested in promoting your collectivist utopianism. It is you has a political agenda, not I.
Your way or the highway
pie in the skyhooks. It is YOU who wants to “change the world”, isn’t it Miss Land?

This is so far removed from how I would describe myself, I won’t waste my time “correcting” him.

Wait a minute, Mary
if there’s no objective truth and free-will is an illusion, how can I be “incorrect”? :face_with_bags_under_eyes:
How is your assessment of yourself superior to my own?
My assessment is predictive. I decipher your Mary Land terminologies, below

Predictable
repeating, consistent
unchanging


Okay, okay: if I do say so myself.

There you go with the spiel, Mary.
Your mind is stuck in a loop, not a hole
you are loopy.
:head_shaking_horizontally:
A repeating loop of feminine defensive nonsense.
How many years have you been repeating the same damn things, Mary?
3? 6? 10?
Can’t stop the loop, can you
and so you feel like you have no choice, and that this is universal.
Nobody even responds to you, do they?
Not here, not on PN
you’ve become a joke.

More to the point [mine] are those dogmatists all up and down the moral spectrum who will insist their own rooted existentially in dasein political prejudices are anything but that. Whether in regard to God or Ideology or Deontology or Biological Imperatives, only their own conclusions are likely to be confirmed once we have finally pinned down how “the human condition” fits into a comprehensive understanding of existence itself. In other words, I suspect, long after he and I are dead and gone.

What does science do to resolve disagreements, Mary?
What does it use as its standard?
Subjectivity?
Might is Right?
How does science, and philosophy, determine which perspective is more probable?

Sorry, simple woman
subjectivity does not equalize all perspectives.

Right, what could an understanding of existence itself possibly have to do with us today? Nothing? A little? A lot? Everything?

Wow!
What? :open_mouth:
That, about, sums up your anti-philosophical nature, dear

A woman who comes here to spread her feel-good agenda
with no understanding of what philosophy is, and how it is relevant, across the ages

We still refer to philosophers, guiding us to this day, in the “here and now,” but Mary can find no value in philosophy
no objective utility.
Code for
she can’t fit it into her nihilistic method of promoting her collectivist agenda.

Simply ridiculous. And I suspect a growing part of him recognizes just how ridiculous others might construe it to be.

Mary, once more projects her emotional state as a universal truth.
Classic female.
More of a hope, than a fact.
She cannot rationally respond, so she must revert to her feminine tactics, somehow drafting popular opinion on her side.
:grin:
Shallow and presumptuous.

Notice how his focus is on determining which theory regarding things like race is more correct. Whereas my focus is more on the extent to which conflicting theories about it are brought down to Earth, confronting actual ongoing social, political and economic interactions that revolve around race

Yes Mary, and this is a major factor in what is occurring in the world, because of the central role this lie plays in the US
a superpower that was controlling the world’s narrative for decades.
The Empire of Lies, has indoctrinated dimwitrs and midwits, in its dominion
like you, Mary.

The subject has an additional utility
it exposes minds that cannot think outside the ethical and ideological boundaries of their upbringing - their indoctrination.
People, like Mary
Dasien, in her mind. Her condition described below.

This is Mary’s confession.
She been using a variant of it for a decade.
What does Mary imply with this?

That men are “thrown into the world” - Dasein - by “world” she means a culture, a society, not the world outside all cultures and societies? She’s a Marxist.
Does she imply that, like her, men become trapped in the ethical and ideological beliefs of their time and place?
That’s not what Schopenhauer says about genius. He says a genius’ mind is not bound by any place and time, and so it can formulate timeless insights.

But if it is so, then how can Mary explain progress?
If men are trapped by their culture and social beliefs, then how does progress even occur?
Mary started as a Christian, then moved to Marxism and is now a Postmodern
the same paradigm binds her tiny mind.
She’s trapped in a loop.
She prefers to believe, she CHOOSES to believe this is a universal fact

All men are trapped in the ethics and beliefs of their time and place, right Mary?
They have no way of breaking free
ergo no free-will.
How do men question the beliefs of their upbringing, Mary?
What standard breaks them out of their society’s lies or errors or superstitions
like ‘race is a social construct’
or ‘god created the world’
or ‘the earth is flat’?
For Mary, objectivity is a slur
it refers to Capitalism, because Mary was told Rand used it and titled her beliefs Objectivism.
Mary has associated objectivity with capitalism, ever since.
Nothing you tell her will break her out of her subjective loop.
This is all Mary understands of objectivity.
In Miss Land’s feminine mind, ‘subjectivity’ is the proletariat, the collective, the victims of exploitation, the ones who suffer the ‘might is right’ of the evil ones
objectivists, capitalists.
This is the extent of her understanding
limited by her prejudices, as is the concept of ‘dasein.’
Her linguistic entrapment must become a universal truth.

This is what she means by her mantra, posted above.

Come on, what I’ve asked of him in regard to race is to note the parts that, in his view, Hitler and the Nazis got right, and the parts they got wrong. And many I suspect would be considerably less inclined to call him a Nazi if he assured them that he has nothing in mind in regard to “final solutions”.

What Hitler got right about race is that it is not a ‘social construct’ and that this lie was propagated by specific people, with an agenda, similar to miss Land’s.
What he did about it, is another issue.

But Mary, nobody believed that crap, back then
or ever
until modern times.
It’s only recently that the lie that ‘race is a social construct’ has been propagated through the US and its world dominance.
Have you read what the founding fathers had to say about race and about Negroes? :nerd_face:
Have you read what people way before Hitler was born, had to say? Were they all Nazis, Mary?

But Hitler and the Nazis is the propaganda Mary had shoved into her tiny brain
and she’s trapped there.
She has no alternative. Her will is unfree.

As always, I am more than willing to encourage others here to make up their own minds regarding this exchange. Taking into account, of course, the “politics” involved.

Taking into account the Truth, Mary
not politics
the TRUTH.
Truth is indifferent to politics and ideologies.

Hell, I’m the first to admit that my assumptions here in regard to conflicting value judgments are no more than what I construe to be my own philosophical, political and moral prejudices rooted existentially in dasein.

:laughing:
There’s the cassette replaying the same songs
a loop. A loopy mind, trapped in a self-referential linguistic hole.
She doesn’t want to escape her proverbial womb
she wants to pull the world in, with her.
She wants the world to fall in line with her inter-subjective, self-comforting, anti-nature idealistic lies. She has a political agenda.
Her method was given to her: linguistic subversion.

On the other hand, how many men and women does he know who, as children, were not brainwashed?

And that’s philosophy’s objective, Mary.
What standard does it use to evaluate which perspective is most probably objectively true, and which is not?

One person, one thinker, presents his evidence, his arguments, his reasoning, and then the other responds

But you have no reasoning, no evidence, no arguments
all you have is a methods of subversion
and a mantra to wear the opposition down
a loopy-loop, trying to attrit like a twit; wear down what you cannot defeat directly, honestly, with superior arguments evidence and reasoning. Feminine to the core.

No, I’m the one who “here and now” is intent on examining not what others believe about the world – about conflicting goods, about race – but the extent to which they are able to demonstrate why their own assessments reflect that which all rational men and women are obligated to accept in turn.

Then watch and shut the fuck up
you are distracting me with your nonsense
forcing me to use you as an example of western intellectual degradation and linguistic infection.
You offer nothing
but entertainment and distraction.

My assessment of the symptoms


Diagnosis :face_with_monocle:

Severe Abrahamic ethical infection. An Afro-Asiatic strain, metastasizing into Marxism and then postmodernism.
A girl that cannot recover from her childhood infections, exploiting her weak constitution.

Prognosis
not good.
Terminal.
Godot!!!

You’re quoting scientists to make an argument from authority – which, to be clear, is perfectly legitimate in context: you’re citing a source as having specialized knowledge on a subject about which neither of us have specialized knowledge. But that type of argument depends on the validity of the authority, and so it’s also valid to point out that no, these are not impartial experts dispassionately presenting evidence, these are strongly motivated individuals presenting evidence that confirms what they already believed.

To the extent that our credence depends on the reliability and trustworthiness of this source, we should consider how reliable and trustworthy Nazi-founded race science journals are on the subject of race science.

I didn’t claim this. My point was that when you say “race exists” and Sculptor and I say “race doesn’t exist”, we are pointing to two different concepts using the word ‘race’ (and probably also two different concepts referred to by ‘exist’).

If we aren’t just doing rhetoric, we should be able to say the same things, point to the same concepts, using clearer language. (Even in Kirkegaard’s blog post, he clarifies that he’s talking about “social race”, because ‘race’ alone is ambiguous and doesn’t only refer to genetic categories.)

This is wrong in a couple of ways. The process of determining genetic relatedness can be done entirely by looking at the genome, we could cluster organisms by genetic relatedness even if we didn’t know what kind of organism they were. Determining intelligence based on genome requires associating genotypes with phenotypes, which is immediately much more difficult and imprecise.

Further, for a complex trait like intelligence, the phenotype can have multiple unrelated genetic correlations – consider that both fragile x and Down’s syndrome have significant effects on intelligence but are genetically distinct.

Genes associate with intelligence are also highly pleiotropic: a single gene can encode multiple phenotypes depending on both environmental and genetic influences (i.e. one gene can change how another is expressed). This is part of the reason that, to the extent we can estimate intelligence from genes at all, we can only do it within individuals with similar ancestries.

And as a result, determining intelligence from genes is much, much less reliable. We’re not even sure how much of intelligence is genetically determined. It’s more than nothing, but much, much, much less than the relationship between genes and ancestry.

They estimate the heritability coefficient, and they don’t do so perfectly. They suggest about 50% heritability, but gene studies only find about 10% of variance explained by genes – and again, these studies are not using a globally representative sample, they’re using relatively closely related individuals from a single relatively homogeneous country. By definition, intelligence will be less heritable, and genes will explain less of the variance, in larger and more diverse populations.

But “gene groups that are identified with high intelligence” are only identified with high intelligence in Europeans.

To give an analogy: pale skin evolved multiple times in multiple places. If you did a genetic study of Europeans and found genes associated with pale skin and then tried to use those genes to estimate the prevalence of pale skin in Asian populations, your results would be bullshit. In Asian populations, those genes aren’t associated with pale skin, a different set of genes is.

And that’s true for simple, low-pleiotrophy traits like skin pigment, it is very likely to be true for genetically complex traits like intelligence.

Is it jumping through hoops to point out that “there are meaningful genetic differences between races” and “observed differences in this specific trait are nearly fully determined by the genetic differences between races” are very different claims that require very different evidence?

You’re caricaturing my claims because you want to make the question look easy, and the answer obvious. It isn’t, and it’s a weakness of your position that you can’t acknowledge that.

There are at least two claims in this thread that should be treated differently.

  1. My claims around the connection between race and intelligence is weaker than your paraphrase:
    1(a): We don’t have strong enough evidence to conclude that the observed differences between social races are primarily a result of genetic differences.
    1(b): I’d also endorse a stronger claim: we don’t have strong enough evidence to conclude that the part of observed differences that aren’t already explained by well-known environmental influences like nutrition and education are primarily a result of genetic differences.
  2. Separately, I don’t think natural selection among early humans is a likely causal mechanism for any differences that do exist.

1(a) isn’t particularly controversial. Twin studies suggest heritability around 50%, but it’s nearly zero among the poor, and the latter is probably closer to what you’d expect between groups and especially between countries. And despite the 50% prediction, GWAS have only been able to explain 10% of variation within relatively homogeneous groups in a single country (on par with parental wealth).

1(b) is a much stronger claim, given that we’ve already explained a lot of the between-group difference in measured intelligence with non-genetic explanations (nutrition, disease, stress, etc.). But it’s still a weak claim in that it’s only a claim about a lack of evidence, and leaves open the possibility that additional evidence could be found. I think there’s good evidence for a genetic component to intelligence in individuals who share common ancestry, but I don’t think we have very reliable information about the genetic component of differences in intelligence between groups of humans (and it’s very likely that different genes encode for high intelligence in different populations).

Point 2 is a separate question. It seems very unlikely that anything that happened among illiterate bands of humans tens of thousands of years ago has fuckall to do with how well modern humans can take an IQ test today. The things that would have helped early humans survive the winter don’t seem meaningfully related to the things that would help a modern human sit at a desk and fill in a bubble about tetris pieces or whatever. It’s a just-so story.

To claims like 1, I don’t understand the appeal to being “science-minded” etc. My position is the current scientific consensus, and yours is a do-your-own-research conspiracy theory pushed in Nazi-founded, non-peer-reviewed rags. Scientific consensus isn’t gospel, and it’s likely sanitized through the liberal bias of academia, but I think the truth is closer to the current consensus than to the hereditarian line.

I do have a strong prior in favor of equality. Theories of racial superiority have been debunked over and over again throughout history – and I’m sure being Irish has something to do with it, because the kind of claims made about black people by hereditarians were made about the Irish, who famously saw a dramatic increase in IQ when they stopped being subjected to genocide. It’s also based in personal experience: a hereditarian model would seem to predict that the sheer number of people I’ve met in contexts filtered for IQ – who I have good independent reason to believe are brilliant – is statistically impossible.

The hereditarian story just looks like racism in a lab coat. Why are they talking about social race at all? Members of a social race have some genetic relationship, but we have 23 and Me, why not just talk about haplogroups or clades? It makes sense if you want the headline to be about racial superiority, but not if you are impartially investigating the genetics of intelligence.

So my priors are strong, but not unreasonably so. I’m open to evidence, I’ve looked into the question and updated somewhat, but the evidence we have doesn’t come close to compelling for the very strong hereditarian claims advanced in this thread.

Wow

:sweat_smile:

Exists = is present. Past made present, perceived as the apparent.
Dynamic, interactive
determining
not determined.
Is not an illusion. Is not fantasy
is as different as it appears to be.
Our senses did not evolve to fool us
only when it comes to one species, Careless.


What appears to be different
is actually different.
The degree to which it appears to be different, is the degree of its difference.

Race = sub-species of homo sapient.
Many species have sub-species
not for you ideological knaves.
Only for one species what appears different is ‘superficial’
or an illusion
it is actually the same.

You need a sanctioned “expert” to validate your comforting mythologies
because society could not endure this truth.

Only for one species, there are no sub-species, even though we can perceive them
and they perform differently in academics and athletics, and have higher crime rates, and they mature at different rates, and can be identified as being different from their bones
and historical evidence proving they are the same is contradicted by historical facts.

Lets ignore the apparent
making all sorts of excuses
claiming it is all superficial because environment only affects the body and not the mind
only for ONE species.
We don’t apply this delusion anywhere but only when it comes to this one species.

Lets’ ignore performative differences, using Marxist excuses
ignoring tens of thousands of years of natural selection before there were even any settlements
or trade.

Lets ignore the historical evidence
and the absence of comparable civilizations, comparable engineering, comparable art, technologies, no philosophy whatsoever
nothing coming close
before colonization even started.

Let’s ignore all that
 and lets formulate excuses, imaginative explanations to dismiss all this evidence
sacrificing our intellectual integrity in the name of our comfort.

Are you truly a philosopher Careless?
You are more of an activist.
You don’t care about the truth
you care about preserving your comforting lies.
Do you think the truth will align with your naive desires, Careless?
Do you think the world cares about what you want to be true?

Let’s sample the systemically sanctioned experts to validate our shared mythologies, because their careers can survive challenging this established lie, used to harmonize heterogeneous populations.
Let’'s surrender to the comforting lie.

Right, like he hasn’t spewed his own philosophical, moral and political prejudices for years. Here, of course, though especially there.

Satyr

What does “political prejudice” mean, Mary?
Not aligned to conventional ethical standards?
Not in agreement with conventional beliefs?
Unpopular?

More to the point [mine] are those among us who argue that their own value judgments are not political prejudices. Instead, they insist they are objective because they are derived from one or another God, or one or another political ideology, or one or another deontological philosophy. With Satyr it revolves around the assumption that how he construes the relationship between genes and memes is the one and the only manner in which to truly understand the human condition.

Satyr

What are my political motives, miss Land?
My only motive is truth
and you are prejudiced against it, so anyone speaking the truth is, according to you, promoting a political agenda
because you use yourself as a standard, abed you project.

Simply unbelievable.

Really, does anyone here actually believe that? Instead, his motive seems to revolve around just how much vitriol he can level at those who dare to challenge [or even question] his own dogmatic outbursts. In other words, how far can he go before getting banned.

He posts here [and there] in part because racists are tolerated here [and there]. Whereas in The Philosophy Forum [and other venues] they are not:

"Types of posters who are not welcome here:

Racists, homophobes, sexists, Nazi sympathisers, etc. : We don’t consider your views worthy of debate, and you’ll be banned for espousing them."

Satyr

When I insist that race is genetic, it isn’t to promote any agenda, pathetic woman, it is to reveal the truth to those living in lies.
If I say species, and sub-species exist, am I saying some ought to be exploited or slaughtered?
Stop using your subjective understanding of yourself to project into whatever threatens it.
Truth is, and will remain, my only agenda, miss Land.
If it hurts your feelings, it is not intentional.

Now, it’s the Truth. On the other hand, it’s the Truth for any number of these folks as well:

Just out of curiosity, will he acknowledge that in regard to his own moral and political convictions, he has been wrong in the past? Will he go there? Because once you admit that you were wrong about an important frame of mind in the past, you are acknowledging that you may be wrong about other important things here and now as well.

I merely note how I came to understand this more clearly [existentially] in regard to my own evolving value judgments.

Satyr

Where, Miss Land, have I been wrong?
That’s up to you to prove and offer a “correct alternative.”

My point is that in regard to conflicting goods, there are any number of objectivists of his ilk who will insist he is the one who is wrong/incorrect because he refuses to toe their lines.

They all can’t be correct [if any of them are] about race. Yet to a clique/claque, they will all insist it really is “my way or the highway”. It’s just that some racists refuse to stop there. The highway takes them all the way to, among other things, a reeducation camp, a gulag, a killing field, a death camp.

Satyr:

All you do is patronize, mock, and declare
because you cannot rationalize your own collectivist objective.

All you can do is undermine, hoping that this will promote what you cannot defend.

I know, I know: right back at him.

Satyr:

My position is that morality evolved to facilitate cooperative survival strategies
and that ALL VALUE JUDGEMENTS including morals, HAVE AN OBJECTIVE.
Morality’s primal objective is survival
by disciplining individual actions to collective needs.
No god required.

No God, perhaps, but any number of objectivists among us preach the gospel embedded in one or another One True Path.

Satyr

If you have a better explanation, then present it Mary
then explain how this morality was imposed on the entire world, for so long, and why all ethical systems share similar rules.
Then explain upon what standard your critique of Hitler and Rand is based, since you are “amoral."

Actually, my explanation revolves around the assumption that those of Satyr’s ilk start with the assumption that only their own explanation encompasses The Truth. But what, in my view, most exasperates them are those like me. With others, they can at least expect them to believe in turn that in regard to race, The Truth does exist. It might come from God or ideology or deontology or idealism or biological imperatives, but it certainly does exist. With me however everything eventually comes back around to all that we still don’t know about existence itself. All of the things that we don’t even know that we don’t even know about it.

Then this part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGqFGefMp1A

Satyr:

Why is Hitler ‘evil’ Mary, if morality is a social construct, as well, and nobody has a real choice?
What are you accusing him of, Mary?

Above, I noted that I do not construe either racism or racists to be inherently good or evil. Instead, I am more inclined to accept Nietzsche’s suggestion that in a No God universe, human interactions in the is/ought world are themselves “beyond good and evil”.

Same with Hitler. I have my own political prejudices rooted existentially in dasein. But that’s not the same as me demonstrating that he is necessarily evil.

And there he goes again claiming that I don’t believe anyone has a real choice. Instead, here and now, I’ve taken an existential leap to determinism while acknowledging that’s all it is. Of course we may have free will. And I certainly post here as though I do. But that doesn’t make this part


All of this going back to how the matter we call the human brain was “somehow” able to acquire autonomy when non-living matter “somehow” became living matter “somehow” became conscious matter “somehow” became self-conscious matter.


go away.

Let alone this part:

Then those here who actually believe that what they believe about all of this reflects, what, the ontological truth about the human condition itself?

Then those who are compelled in turn to insist on a teleological component as well. Usually in the form of one or another God.

Meanwhile, philosophers and scientists and theologians have been grappling with this profound mystery now for thousands of years.

Satyr:

You aren’t interested in truth, Mary, the object of philosophy, you are interested in promoting your collectivist utopianism. It is you has a political agenda, not I.
Your way or the highway
pie in the skyhooks. It is YOU who wants to “change the world”, isn’t it Miss Land?

All I want is a way to convince myself that my own existence is not essentially meaningless and purposeless, that my moral philosophy need not be “fractured and fragmented” and that perhaps my death might not entail falling over into the abyss that is nothingness.

This is so far removed from how I would describe myself, I won’t waste my time “correcting” him.

Satyr:

Wait a minute, Mary
if there’s no objective truth and free-will is an illusion, how can I be “incorrect”? :face_with_bags_under_eyes:

One More Time:

What I believe about objective truth and free will “here and now” are no less entirely subjective assumptions predicated on the manner in which existentially my understanding of them unfolds given the life I’ve lived. The experiences I had, the relationships I sustained, the information and knowledge I came upon.

Satyr:

There you go with the spiel, Mary.
Your mind is stuck in a loop, not a hole
you are loopy.
:head_shaking_horizontally:
A repeating loop of feminine defensive nonsense.
How many years have you been repeating the same damn things, Mary?
3? 6? 10?
Can’t stop the loop, can you
and so you feel like you have no choice, and that this is universal.
Nobody even responds to you, do they?
Not here, not on PN
you’ve become a joke.

Back to this:

Note to others:

Satyr likes to think of himself as a “serious philosopher”. Yet over and again he’ll post what I construe to be the equivalent of intellectual drivel above.

More to the point [mine] are those dogmatists all up and down the moral spectrum who will insist their own rooted existentially in dasein political prejudices are anything but that. Whether in regard to God or Ideology or Deontology or Biological Imperatives, only their own conclusions are likely to be confirmed once we have finally pinned down how “the human condition” fits into a comprehensive understanding of existence itself. In other words, I suspect, long after he and I are dead and gone.

Satyr

What does science do to resolve disagreements, Mary?
What does it use as its standard?
Subjectivity?
Might is Right?
How does science, and philosophy, determine which perspective is more probable?

Right, like there is an actual consensus among philosophers and scientists regarding race. And, of course, Satyr’s own mantra here revolves around “right makes might”. And once you are convinced of your own Kingdom of Ends is right the slope between means and ends can get considerably problematic.


what could an understanding of existence itself possibly have to do with us today? Nothing? A little? A lot? Everything?

Satyr:

Wow!
What? :open_mouth:
That, about, sums up your anti-philosophical nature, dear

A woman who comes here to spread her feel-good agenda
with no understanding of what philosophy is, and how it is relevant, across the ages


All I can say is that if it is not a “condition” he is afflicted with, it will do until one shows up.

Then it’s just more of the same Stooge Stuff from him,

Satyr:

Mary, once more projects her emotional state as a universal truth.
Classic female.
More of a hope, than a fact.
She cannot rationally respond, so she must revert to her feminine tactics, somehow drafting popular opinion on her side.
:grin:
Shallow and presumptuous.

Enough said?

Notice how his focus is on determining which theory regarding things like race is more correct. Whereas my focus is more on the extent to which conflicting theories about it are brought down to Earth, confronting actual ongoing social, political and economic interactions that revolve around race.

Satyr

Yes Mary, and this is a major factor in what is occurring in the world, because of the central role this lie plays in the US
a superpower that was controlling the world’s narrative for decades.
The Empire of Lies, has indoctrinated dimwitrs and midwits, in its dominion
like you, Mary.

Off the deep end again. Unless, of course, someone here is willing and able to explain what the above has to do with my point.

What’s most mind-boggling here perhaps is that he actually believes “the psychology of objectivism” above is applicable to someone who describes himself as “fractured and fragmented” morally, politically and spiritually! Also, the part where I don’t exclude myself from my own point of view. The irony being that I come here in part in hopes of finding someone who might actually convince me to abandon these grim assumptions.

Satyr

What does Mary imply with this?

That men are “thrown into the world” - Dasein - by “world” she means a culture, a society, not the world outside all cultures and societies? She’s a Marxist.
Does she imply that, like her, men become trapped in the ethical and ideological beliefs of their time and place?
That’s not what Schopenhauer says about genius. He says a genius’ mind is not bound by any place and time, and so it can formulate timeless insights.

And let’s not forget this part:

Satyr

But if it is so, then how can Mary explain progress?

If men are trapped by their culture and social beliefs, then how does progress even occur?

See what he does here [over and over and again]? On the one hand, he embraces progress, but then on the other hand it’s only progress as he encompasses it. Thus America is making progress in regard to race because Trump – a racist – is back in the White House.

Then back to Stooge Stuff on steroids:

Satyr

How do men question the beliefs of their upbringing, Mary?
What standard breaks them out of their society’s lies or errors or superstitions
like ‘race is a social construct’
or ‘god created the world’
or ‘the earth is flat’?
For Mary, objectivity is a slur
it refers to Capitalism, because Mary was told Rand used it and titled her beliefs Objectivism.
Mary has associated objectivity with capitalism, ever since.
Nothing you tell her will break her out of her subjective loop.
This is all Mary understands of objectivity.
In Miss Land’s feminine mind, ‘subjectivity’ is the proletariat, the collective, the victims of exploitation, the ones who suffer the ‘might is right’ of the evil ones
objectivists, capitalists.
This is the extent of her understanding
limited by her prejudices, as is the concept of ‘dasein.’
Her linguistic entrapment must become a universal truth.

In fact, when it comes to Stoogery, no one now comes close to him here. Well, now that iwannaplato has
retired? Or was IWP one of his sock puppets?

Come on, what I’ve asked of him in regard to race is to note the parts that, in his view, Hitler and the Nazis got right, and the parts they got wrong. And many I suspect would be considerably less inclined to call him a Nazi if he assured them that he has nothing in mind in regard to “final solutions”.

Satyr

What Hitler got right about race is that it is not a ‘social construct’ and that this lie was propagated by specific people, with an agenda, similar to miss Land’s.
What he did about it, is another issue.

That’s why I’m so curious regarding the parts he thinks Hitler got wrong. What wouldn’t he pursue in order to sustain a community where the races lived apart from each other? Especially in regard to those who organize politically to prevent this.

Satyr

Have you read what the founding fathers had to say about race and about Negroes? :nerd_face:
Have you read what people way before Hitler was born, had to say? Were they all Nazis, Mary?

Start here: “In fact, 17 of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention owned a total of about 1,400 slaves. Of the first 12 U.S. presidents, eight were slave owners. These men have traditionally been considered national heroes.”

And how on Earth could anyone become a Nazi until historically, the party was created in 1919.

On the other hand, how many men and women does he know who, as children, were not brainwashed?

Satyr

And that’s philosophy’s objective, Mary.
What standard does it use to evaluate which perspective is most probably objectively true, and which is not?

No, that’s the objective of those philosophers who insist that only their moral philosophy counts. Though they wouldn’t use a word like brainwashing of course. Instead, their aim is to enlighten us regarding The Truth.

Indeed, just run that part by these guys and gals: List of philosophies - Wikipedia

No, I’m the one who “here and now” is intent on examining not what others believe about the world – about conflicting goods, about race – but the extent to which they are able to demonstrate why their own assessments reflect that which all rational men and women are obligated to accept in turn.

Satyr

Then watch and shut the fuck up
you are distracting me with your nonsense
forcing me to use you as an example of western intellectual degradation and linguistic infection.
You offer nothing
but entertainment and distraction.

Note to others:

There is the possibility that all of this is “beyond his control”. So, he’ll always have that to fall back on.

Naturally?

I am sure I’m not the only one here who thoroughly enjoy this endless Silenus/Iambiguos debate.

A study in stubbornness.

No god
your perspective is quintessentially politically prejudiced, Mary.
You are the poster girl of neo-Marxist postmodernism.
Who are you trying to lie to
me or yourself?

There are no different truths, miss Land
only different levels of acknowledgement and acceptance and awareness.
You don’t live in your own truth, sad woman.

That you are sheltered from the consequences of your stupidity, is evident.
The only reason you can come here and spew the nonsense you do is because you are protected by a system. Protected from your own idiocy.
In nature or other systems, if you ever attempted to live by your own truths, you would soon find out what the cost truly is.

Of course, Miss Land

My positions on morality have not been contradicted
because they are based on observation, not text in books.
Do you even udnerstand what I am saying?

But that doesn’t mean I’m not objective, pathetic woman
your trite inclusions of
“I may be wrong” are not evidence of your openness and objectivity
it’s evidence of your womanly mind-games.

Being in error is implied, Mary
but you have to prove it, in regards to my views
not I.
YOU, sad woman, have to show me where and why
not simply declare that I might be wrong, because nobody is omniscient.

That’s part of natural selection, you dumb fool.
You have to show where and why I am wrong
not simply state that I am.

You have to offer a superior alternative
not parroting your mantra, like a stupid girl.

I gave my thesis
you critique it by understanding it and offering an antithesis.
Your inane commentary, you’ve been posting for years, is ridiculous

All you do is vaguely subvert everything that makes you feel uncomfortable or prevents your objective from being realized
like free-will, or morality
or competing truths.

Who are you talking about, you sad girl
what ‘one true path’
there are mutiple paths. That doesn’t mean they exist in their private reality.
They exist in the same reality.
Some are good paths, some are bad paths
some are easy, some are difficult
some lead you astray, some lead to where you are going
some have destinations that exit in fantasy maps, others have destinations existing in the real world.

Then show us where it is wrong and give us a better explanation, you pathetic woman.
Don’t just bitch about it

Show us.

And then you contradict yourself, woman, by constantly referring back to Hitler and the Nazis and the Holocaust as the only atrocity humans ever conducted
you ignore the one occurring as we speak
AS WE SPEAK, you hypocrite.
So brainwashed
so communist
the only ‘evil’ she can recognize goes back to WWII.
Yes, the Nazis were communism’s greatest enemy
and coincidentally for the Jews
and that’s why you were brainwashed, miss Mary Land
near Washington DC, the heart of the beast.

You’re lying, Mary
you want to wallow in your misery.
Are you not physically handicapped?..and mentally, I would add.

You’ve dug a linguistic hole and wrapped yourself in semiotic dirt
a proverbial womb, you pretend you want to escape, and be reborn
but it’s your trap. Your retribution on the world that made you as you are: gullible, not very bright, impressionable, feeble
and now crippled.

Yes
this is true of YOU
not everyone, you dumb woman.
Not everyone becomes trapped in the culture they were born in.
I didn’t.
Men question the beliefs their mommy and daddy teach them
using what, Mary?
How do men break out of their cultural bubbles?

If a man is born int a fundamentalist Christian culture, how does he ever manage to become an atheist?
Think you stupid woman
what did you lack?
Why was your will imprisoned, whereas another’s was not?

There’s not
and we don’t need it.
What do our eyes reveal?
What does Darwin tell us?
Combine the two
use your own reasoning.
You rely on authorities, woman
but all woman are like you.
:face_with_monocle:
Women need guidance and consensus
unable to doubt popular beliefs, unable to challenge authorities.

There’s the tape
that loopy loop cassette
of the 80’s and 90’s.
That’s all she has
those golden oldies
from her youth.

Many blacks want to segregate, Mary
but they know that if they do they will fuck it all up, because of how they are
low IQ, high impulsiveness, low self-control

If they could they would have, already, in Africa
thousands of years before white men arrived.

Have you heard of many Negroes being given the Nobel Prize in physics, or chemistry?
Any remarkable technological innovations
other than Sculptor’s super soaker and graffiti innovations? :wink:
Twerking
yes
they’ve made great progress in gorilla signalling.

No, woman
I’m not telling you MY moral standards, but what morality is.
You don’t even know what my moral standards are

I’ve only explained that morality does not require a god, nor is it imposed by the powerful on the powerless.
Morality is innate in all social species
because without it their cooperative methods would not succeed.

See
like I, predicted.

You can’t help yourself
it’s written on the cassette
you cannot end the playback
you have no cassette other than the one they gave you.
You cannot stop replaying the same tunes
press fast forward to “Look what I reduced him to”
then back to “Note to Others”
catchy tune, then forward again to “wiggle wiggle.”
more upbeat
for dancing
then back again to “Dasein”
classy


How do technologies and modernism affect society?
Is homosexuality, transsexual, pedophilia, paraphilic sexual practices in general, abortions, contraceptives, multiplying promiscuity harmless developments?
Americanism & Family Values

What does historical precedent tell us


Miss Land is having the same effect in every forum that gives her the leeway not given to anyone else.

She goes through her playlist
and then declares victory
misconstruing frustration for capitulation to her formidable arguments
you now the playlist:
Press play
 :backhand_index_pointing_left:
:musical_notes:
:counterclockwise_arrows_button:

*Desein - Euro-pop
*Huffing & Puffing - dance
*Wiggle wiggle - dance
*Look what I’ve reduced him to - bluegrass
*I was born a coal-miners daughter - country
*Rummy Rules - country pop
*Note to Others - soft-pop
*Didactic Pedantic Clouds - waltz
*Conflicting Goods - grunge
*His way or the Highway - country
*Objectivism - industrial

I’ll be adding to the list as I hear them played.

Satyr:

That you are sheltered from the consequences of your stupidity, is evident.
The only reason you can come here and spew the nonsense you do is because you are protected by a system. Protected from your own idiocy.

But that doesn’t mean I’m not objective, pathetic woman
your trite inclusions of
“I may be wrong” are not evidence of your openness and objectivity
it’s evidence of your womanly mind-games.

That’s part of natural selection, you dumb fool.

Your inane commentary, you’ve been posting for years, is ridiculous


Then show us where it is wrong and give us a better explanation, you pathetic woman.
Don’t just bitch about it

Show us.

You’re lying, Mary
you want to wallow in your misery.

Are you not physically handicapped?..and mentally, I would add.

On and on and on he goes in the same Stooge Stuff vein.

How obsessed is he with me?

To witless:

Click.

Just for the record, some here [and others there] have accused me of being obsessed with Satyr. It’s actually just the opposite.

I first encountered him years ago at ILP. By then though the “war” between ILP and KT had resulted in him being banned. Why? Because he simply cannot, will not tolerate anyone who refuses to agree with everything that he says. He is the personification of the didactic/pedantic bully.

I became a “user” at KT. I would effectively challenge what I deemed to be his arrogant, autocratic dogmas until one day I came upon this:

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He tossed me into the “dungeon”. Where over and over and over again I continued to make a fool out of him.

Okay, okay: if I do say so myself.

Satyr:

“She speaks for millions, in her head, directing her comments towards unseen audiences, in the form of ‘notes’ and patronizing rhetorical questions directed towards invisible receivers.
Text after text, repeating an encoded message to an imagined audience.
She’s a Borg Queen. First among equals – one of many drones.
She has adopted the feminine tactic of linguistic sparring, never positing any arguments, any reasoning, but only insinuating in her condescending tone, undermining the psychology of her interlocutors, she hopes. It’s all subjective, so her hopes are as good as truths. If she thinks so, it is so; it is so for her and her collective, who share her psychosis, her desire to disappear in a collective – cease to be individuals.
She calls her inability to rationalize her positions her ‘fracturing & fragmentation,’ knowing that the adversary is too superior to deal with on his level. She knows that she is incapable of abandoning her emotional crutches, so she demands that they prove them to her, placing herself at the center of all dialogues, bringing them down to her level – the final arbiter. She’s made herself the standard, the one who will decide right from wrong, whilst pretending she has no preferences and no ethics. But she does, and it shows.
Every dialogue she converts to a discussion about her, and how others must prove themselves to her, as if she were a ‘philosopher queen,’ and yet, if she is personally attacked or critiqued, she turns to her patronizing accusation “stooge,” – demeaning, patronizing – and if the insults become too hurtful, “huffing & puffing,” – dismissive – and if the critiques cut too close to the bone, she resorts to the infantile ” look what I’ve reduced him to,” always directing her commentary to the unseen collective in her hive mind. She wins, no matter what. If she does not reduce you to a drone, she reduces you to a manimal.
She must make herself the final arbiter, and yet nobody can critique her, nor speculate about her motives. They must, only prove themselves to her. Her subjectivity will determine if the arguments are good or bad. Her subjectivity will determine who is the stooge and who is the “clever” one, focusing no the speaker not the spoken.
If you cannot convincingly explain your positions to her, then your theories are too “abstract,” “up in the skyhooks,” meaning they are incomprehensible to her, therefore they are nonsense; if you cannot convince her, then nothing you say is true. Her and her collective, will be the ones who decide, “compelled” by fate to be the final judges – chosen, by unknown agencies.
Her intelligence is now the standard, and yet she admits that she’s confused and subjective, so her confused subjectivity is the final standard. Her emotions, her interests, her feelings, her comprehensions
 she says it straight out. It’s not how Heidegger meant “Dasein” it’s how she understood it, ‘here and now.’
All must be brought down to her level of confused subjectivity. And if you turn away and ignore her, she will follow you around, taunting, patronizing, implying, commenting, until you pay attention to her, as if she mattered, as if her subjectivity had to be overcome, seduced, convinced, otherwise everything being stated is of no significance.
And others fall for it
 are pulled into her ‘up in the sky’ orifices, not realizing that her subjectivity can never be swayed, because it has a secret agenda
 and is not ‘fractured & fragmented,’ at all. She’s a Marxist, a collectivist, but she will never admit it.
Her pretence is meant to wear you down, and pull you into her gaping orifice, her ‘hole.’
She’s the Borg Queen
 of the Borg collective. “Resistance is futile,” she believes
 because she will ware you down until you surrender. Taunting, patronizing, undermining, condescending
 until you turn on her in frustration, “huffing and puffing,” to be “reduced,” by her formidable feminine tactics, to an emotional wreck, primed for capitulation. Then, she will declare victory, and move on, until she returns, again, and again, to toy with you. She’s succeeding, she believes, and her subjective belief is all that matters.
She’s made objectivity a slur, associating it with Ayn Rand’s “objectivism” and its defence of capitalist ideals, implying that objectivity, as an intellectual approach, is brutal, confronting her comforting subjective shelters, associating it with triggering events and injustices, like the holocaust, or with abortions denied to women who have made a terrible mistake, or have been victimized, and want to ‘correct’ it with a quick and easy operation, just to repeat it in the future.
All errors can be collectivized, so that everyone is made equal – I am a drone, my brother’s keeper. Their pains are my own. Their mistakes, are my own.
Philosophy is about becoming objective, but not for her. Objectivity is now authoritarian, totalitarian, another term for ‘evil’ – might is right.
She’s not really a “philosopher,” even if she throws the term around, like all the other crap she throws around; she’s an ideologue, masking as some two-bit internet “intellectual,” with a secret agenda. Objectivity is her nemesis, and that’s why she’s demonized it. All must become subjective, where emotions and self-interests, stupidity and ignorance, hedonism and ego dominate. There, she hopes, she can assimilate her victims, into the collective, her collective.
She calls it “compromising,” and it is how she will eliminate wars and conflicts. All will become automatons in the collective – drones, with no free-will.
That’s the issue. That’s what prevents her collective from becoming cosmic. Free-will and ‘self.’
She claims to be amoral, but her methods always employ indirect shaming, using ethical triggers, trying to convert by reducing others into submissive automatons, following her collectivized ethical standards – this is why the holocaust, and Nazis, and mass shootings, and abortions, are continuously brought up as “contexts,” for her faked amorality to unload its moralizing tactics. It’s those damn objectivists, and their unemotional criteria, see?
It’s those objective males, and their reasoning, that stands in the way of universal assimilation.
If she were truly amoral, the Nazis, and their victims, denying abortions to women, victims of paternalism, would not be such an emotional issue, to her.
Under what principle would a true amoralist claim that such actions were wrong?
She denies morality to conceal her own moralizing practices, subverting by casting doubt into the minds of those who do not want to wrong people – those with morals and principles, otherwise why would the predicament of some theoretical Mary, and her unwanted pregnancy, matter? On what grounds would Mary deserve to be helped, in a world with no “ethical authority”? Everything has to be made into a “social construct” to justify her collective’s planned social engineering? In a ‘no god world’ where ethics are invented, out of nothing, men can step in and create their own, right?
Right is Might is inverted to Might is Right
and the only ‘ethical might’ is the one practiced by a collective. Her objectives are certainty not rational, because then she would argue them. But she can’t and will not, for this will expose her and her quality of mind and her agenda. Every time she tried, in the past, when she was still an “objectivist,” herself, she failed to defeat those with better counterarguments – she failed when trying to impose her subjectivity on real objective minds. She had no arguments worth stating. So, she stopped arguing, using reasoning, and started undermining, using emotions
 as she was taught. She emasculated herself, adopting feminine strategies. Tactics that do not require reasoning, or evidence, or objective standards, or logic, nor definitions of words. Entirely feminine; psychological tactics. Tactics on how to defeat masculine reasoning
 those evil objectivists, who are not to be called ‘evil,’ because this would expose her foundational ethics – the same ones that verbally manipulated her into joining Abrahamism, and then Marxism, and now postmodernism. Now she will assimilate others, as she has been assimilated; the ideology “compels” her, to indoctrinate as she was; to manipulate, as she was.
Mary’s sexual mistakes are not hers alone, they are the entire collectives mistake, or they ought to be so, in an “is/ought” world, with “no god.” A world with no absolute authority, she believes, subjectively.
Her amorality conceals a deep moral foundation
 based on her Abrahamic upbringing. It has been absorbed into her updated collectivism. She’s progressed from spiritual towards ideological collectivism, rejecting all biology-based categories. Ironically? Predictably.
There are good & evil collectives, and any collective identifier, based on biology, is ‘evil,’ but must be called “objective,” because it is, and objectivity is, by her own subjective definitions of Dasein, ‘evil,’ or ‘’wrong,’ or ‘immoral.’ But she will never say so. She will simply imply, and patronize, and ridicule
 until you get it, see? Like she did.
The all-inclusive ideological collective is now her god. It is intentional, willful, so no individuated Will, ought to, be tolerated in the Borg collective. The Borg Queen speaks on its behalf. It’s not her, she is “compelled,” as all are, she believes in her subjective mind.
No arguments required. It is so, because she believes so, and she is part of a collective.
There is no free-will so nobody has a choice; they are all compelled, and she just happened to be compelled by the “good side.” She’s been chosen, by fate, luck, chance, cosmic, or comic, forces, to be on the right side of history. She’s been directed, chosen to do this work. It’s not her choice. She has no choice. She one of the fortunate ones.
If not god, then who or what is compelling us all? She cannot say, without exposing her ethics and motives. All drones must be made to feel equal to all others, for the collective to remain stable; no personal identify will be tolerated; no personal beliefs. No hierarchies. No divisive categories. No divisive collectives. Her collective is universal. All will inevitably submit and be assimilated. There is no choice. Resistance is FUTILE!
She just laughs, knowing that all who resist will succumb, will be assimilated.
Natural selection must, ought to, be replaced by social selection, governed by Borg principles and collectivized ethics. All must, ought, to identify with the all-encompassing universal collective, i.e., ‘self’ must be denounced and rejected. But she cannot explain and convince, using reason and rational arguments, so she must use psychological means to subvert all concepts that resist, demanding that others prove them to her
 since she is the final subjective arbiter, and if you fail to convince her subjectivity – as you inevitably will – then ‘self’ is disproven, she believes
 she has been compelled to believe. It’s not her fault.
She didn’t even have to rationalize her disproof. She simply chipped away at the imperfections in all theories about ‘self,’ all definitions, leaving the nothing, the absence
 where anxiety takes over, and individuals seek comfort in collectives. She learned these techniques from others. Her collectivized brethren. From the hive
 the Borg collective mind, replacing the god of Abraham.
She denies self, so as to imply that she’s channelling a cosmic agency, when it is collectivism, she is trying to channel. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong,’ there is no choice, leaving the option of being collectively wrong as the only option. Let’s be collectively wrong, erasing all social and natural disparities – let’s reduce it all down to a level where uniformity is possible.
It’s inevitable
 The cosmos will become ‘healed’ of its multiplicities and its conflicts. It will become uniformly perfect. Tikkun Olam.
She’s a Marxist, or a cultural Marxists, or a postmodern, but she will never admit it.
She will pretend that she’s undecided, fractured & fragmented, battling with these complex issues, unable to decide who is correct, when she’s already decided – the collective mind decided it for her – using this pretence as a way of pulling others into her linguistic traps – given to her. Infantile, but effective, around certain types. Her radicalized selective skepticism ought to be universalized. Radical and very selective. Applied ‘here’ but not ‘there’; ‘now’ but not ‘after.’
Doubt only your senses; doubt only certain issues, having to do with human identity and the human condition. Always remain within the human. Never apply this strategy outside human systems.
Her goal is to undermine confidence, because she is unable to confront the ideologies directly. She can only chip away at their imperfections. Her methods do not even require a high IQ, or knowledge of the ideologies, themselves. Her ignorance and simplicity are an advantage. She can never be swayed by reason nor by anything complex. She is immune to the underlying implications.
She, routinely tries to turn others against each other, so that she can glean something from the exchange, otherwise she remains oblivious to everything other than her repetitive devices.
Nothing she is told has ever affected her. She is too thick, too indoctrinated to be affected.
The ideology has “compelled” her to think and do what she does. Making others debate, while she watches, also reinforces her role as the final arbiter. She will be the one who decides the winner, and the criteria will be subjective, i.e., emotional, self-serving, not objective.
Her words don’t even require definitions, because these would create objective foundations from where dialogue can proceed. Her objectives will be thwarted by such objective clarity. She needs it all to remain as subjective as possible – in other words, obscure, chaotic, uncertain, vague, emotionally driven, egotistical, self-serving, hedonistic. The pleasure principle must be paramount – she must reduce all to a manimal state, where pure subjectivity can reign.
By the time these victims of her bad faith become aware of her methods and motives they will have wasted away hours rummaging through her garbage for something valuable.
I doubt most of them will ever realize what she is and what she is doing. They will simply become increasingly frustrated and confused by her repeating tactics, as if nothing they said registers; her responses never altering. It does not matter what reasoning and evidence they present, she will ignore it, because her subjectivity is the final standard.
She is compelled to hammer away, not letting them alone, until they capitulate and assimilate.
They call it nagging, for her its an effective strategy. She will never abandon it.
She is unable to exit from the nihilistic continuity, connecting Christianity with Communism and now Wokism. This time it will work, she believes.”

There are so many preposterous claims about me here
and I suspect that he knows it. He just can’t help himself though. He seethes when someone dares to challenge him. Most here know what I am talking about.

Now, if he is ever willing to dispense with the caustic eruptions that revolve almost entirely around what a fucking moron I am, we can perhaps sustain an exchange that really does revolve instead around connecting the dots between philosophical assessments of conflicting goods/racism and the manner in which theory here might be reconciled with the enormous complexity of human social, political and economic interactions.

Until then, ta ta.