jvb1000

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by jvb1000 3y ago
The role of the senate in Canada is not to pass or reject bills. Their role is to make sure the bills are written coherently and accord with previous legislation. Think of them more like copy editors.
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by jvb1000 3y ago
A terrible story but not new. Reminds me of a fascinating article from decades ago, "A Rape in Cyberspace."
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by jvb1000 3y ago
Alongside this, there are also several international traditions of sci-fi (Russian, French, Indian, Chinese) that imagined modernization in supposedly under developed countries to contrast a possible future against the very real modernizati
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by jvb1000 3y ago
Even if it's not true of all science fiction (especially the pulp traditions of American sci-fi), it is arguable that the origins of science fiction are thought experiments that exist to help think through and critique the present. A
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by jvb1000 3y ago
For those not aware, despite it seeming highly contemporary, the first English translation of the book was published in 1924.
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by jvb1000 3y ago
That's probably a testament to the criticism. Interesting that what Yevgeny Zamyatin presents as a clear, almost too on the nose dystopian satire has been repackaged as a desirable work environment.
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by jvb1000 3y ago
Kurt Vonnegut was accused once of ripping off George Orwell's 1984 with Player Piano. He responded by saying that he and Orwell had both just ripped off Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Soviet author who ran afoul of
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by jvb1000 3y ago
What arguments/evidence do you have to support claim that humans by nature always desire "more"?
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by jvb1000 3y ago
The Yanomamo were one of probably thousands of different groups that lives in the prehistoric era. One problem in the study of prehistoric human life is that only a few groups kept their way of life consistent from prehistoric times to mode
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by jvb1000 3y ago
As others have pointed out, the issue with observations about prehistoric life have been generalized from a small sample size.
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by jvb1000 3y ago
Politics existed long before. The decision to embrace or avoid agriculture were political decisions too.
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by jvb1000 3y ago
You're missing a lot of nuance. Graebers work is great. Tons of evidence-based discussions and thorough logic. What you've written here is even really deserving of a forum post.
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by jvb1000 3y ago
Göbekli Tepe is the evidence unless you've found evidence that they were a complex agricultural society
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by jvb1000 3y ago
Or maybe your assumptions about agriculture/surplus/specialization are wrong. I'd start by digging deeper into existing evidence instead of evidence free speculation of complex agricultural societies lost to time.
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by jvb1000 3y ago
See Graeber for a more nuanced understanding of how and why agriculture was (and often was not) integrated into prehistoric societies.
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by jvb1000 4y ago
I hate this adage. I've taught, a lot. At universities, in high school, and to adults. The idea that people who can't do can teach is not remotely true. Most people can't teach effectively. If you can't do something you