ArialAnemone

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by ArialAnemone 9y ago
In this day and age, often the same. The older I get, the more I understand Turner's thesis on the frontier. Without a frontier, ambitious people turn into ever-more specialized rentiers, trying to squeeze the golden goose as hard as t
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by ArialAnemone 9y ago
Pre-apartheid: SA has working first world infrastructure Post-apartheid: SA is mired in governmental incompetence and degradation of infrastructure. Not to mention highly elevated levels of murder and rape. :^)
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by ArialAnemone 9y ago
Pre-apartheid: SA has working first world infrastructure Post-apartheid: SA is mired in governmental incompetence and degradation of infrastructure. Not to mention highly elevated levels of murder and rape. :^)
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by ArialAnemone 9y ago
How are they not justified? A cynical understanding of human nature and society serves a person far better than the opposite. People want to do less work than more work. For people involved in acquiring, placing, and managing human resource
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by ArialAnemone 9y ago
It's not merely sitting down. It's seeing the code monkeys of life being manipulated by people who are adept at manipulating humans and getting higher status and pay for it. Think of a lot of technical positions in the military.
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by ArialAnemone 9y ago
You're not making a convincing argument. Why are the capabilities of plumbers to mentally map various causes and effects and points of failure not subject to the same forces of thought differentials you claim? My cynicism says that div
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by ArialAnemone 9y ago
But you're not promoting "diversity of thought", you're promoting BS signals. How is it promoting facts when you're searching for superficial signs of diversity? You're promoting a form of corporate doublethink
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by ArialAnemone 9y ago
Schools are for the benefit of of people who rarely have anything invested in the growth of any one student. It's robbing taxpayers, demanding draconian control of kids, both physically and legally. The money that is funneled into &quo
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by ArialAnemone 9y ago
Public Schools are horrific squanderings of societal wealth and innumerable years of cognition. They socialize children into diets that bring on pre-diabetes and diabetes. It's absolute quackery to say that the massive resources spent