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by kirsebaer 12y ago
If you've read Brave New World or you like psychedelics, you should really check out Island, the novel Huxley wrote after taking mescaline (PDF version is online). Island is pro-drug (magic mushrooms), pro-sex, pro-enjoying life, sensi
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by kirsebaer 12y ago
Lead paint and lead gasoline are shocking examples of corporate misbehavior. Interior lead paint was banned in many European countries by the 1920s because of the obvious health risks. But in the US the lead manufactures responded to health
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by kirsebaer 12y ago
One in a 100 people in the US will die by suicide. It's a common cause of death. Could suicide and depression be a response to civilization and modernity? This article cites some evidence that the suicide rate was much lower among vari
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by kirsebaer 12y ago
16,000 homicides total (firearm or otherwise) in the US in 2011. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
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by kirsebaer 12y ago
This is another reason for drug legalization. The paranoia around opiates has to end. Lack of access to pain medication is a huge problem globally. Every time there is a natural disaster doctors are arrested for carrying pain meds without w
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by kirsebaer 12y ago
Or maybe they are just angry at you for taking away their fun toy. Previous generations had moral panics about novels and then comic books. Parents were warned to not let their kids become "book-worms" (aka reading addicts).
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by kirsebaer 12y ago
John Ehrlichman, Counsel and Assistant to President Nixon: "You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You und
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Doesn't this sound like Madoff and Picower?
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Here is TEDx talk, "Why Math Education is Unnecessary", by a math teacher arguing that compulsory math classes should be replaced with voluntary math-based games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyowJZxrtbg Here i
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by kirsebaer 12y ago
Picasso was skilled at drawing as a child, and he started formal art education at age 10. But maybe you mean he wasn't that impressive at drawing perspective and architecture? Childhood drawings by Picasso: http://drawingatd
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by kirsebaer 12y ago
This is programmed into as a child. It's your operating system as a future worker, to be used by your future manager. Days of the week, standing in line, sitting quietly, not complaining. It starts out as fun, a game in pre-school, but
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by kirsebaer 12y ago
Is there any place better? Twitter maybe? I lurk here occassionally because the comments are more intelligent than reddit. But I'm not in IT, so most of the posts are not relevant for me. I like that you can post anonymously.
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by kirsebaer 12y ago
What about democratic free schools like Sudbury Valley School? Where all the children, ages 4-19, are free to do what they want, whether playing video games or studying abstract algebra. 9 min video: https://www.youtube.com/