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by laotzu 11y ago
A bit unrelated but after reading the wiki pages for Somatization and Conversion disorder and then reading the suggested links I stumbled upon this gem, the Cat Nun hysteria of 1844: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_h
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by laotzu 11y ago
The concept of "free trade" has been obfuscated to the point of being a mythological idol.
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by laotzu 11y ago
Amazing how artificially inflated the housing/real estate market is considering the surplus that exists due to overproduction. Last I checked there are around 5 vacant homes for every homeless person in the US. Playing the game of Mono
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by laotzu 11y ago
May I ask what your savings were in that caused them to be be wiped out in 2008? I would have to guess retirement funds invested in mutual funds which were invested in the housing bubble?
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by laotzu 11y ago
This idea of Post Linguistic Emergent Concepts is an interesting one which Marshall McLuhan alluded to in his 1964 book The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. He suggested that the sheer speed of electric processing made the a
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by laotzu 11y ago
Torture and murder doesn't justify more torture and murder but it often creates it.
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by laotzu 11y ago
>Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the
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by laotzu 11y ago
Howgh, my fellow native american or indigenous friend. I too grow weary of these pale face immigrants taking our land, genociding us, and telling us we'll all be better off.
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by laotzu 11y ago
>A politic minister will study to lull us into security, by granting us the full extent of our petitions. The warm sunshine of influence would melt down the virtue, which the violence of the storm rendered more firm and unyielding. In a
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by laotzu 11y ago
>The rule of law was a real thing for much of American history When was that?
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by laotzu 11y ago
>The rule of law might not seem always fair, but it hampers the powerful much more than the weak. Yes in theory, but not so much in actual reality. As Aesop said: "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public offic
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by laotzu 11y ago
>Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and e
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by laotzu 11y ago
I'm confused myself but thanks for debating. I was wrong about the 0% reserve ratio applying per account rather it is the sum total of all accounts held by the bank.
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by laotzu 11y ago
I'm all for a UBI but I'm very skeptical of the feasibility of implementing one based on the dollar or any paper based monetary system that is not an actual standard and scientific measure of resources, and none of them are to my
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by laotzu 11y ago
>It may also be a bit early, as automation isn't in its stride yet. I'm curious as to how you would judge whether or not automation is efficient enough to do this? Buckminster Fuller, former president of the Mensa society, argu
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by laotzu 11y ago
Loans are created as deposits/accounts receivables which are included in net transaction accounts. Back that loan with a Credit Default Swap and you cant skirt any reserve requirements which was exactly what ripped the world economy in
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by laotzu 11y ago
According to the Fed's website, commercial banks (including foreign/international banks) can actually create and loan out up to $14,500,000 per loan and not be required to have anything backing it (0% required reserve ratio). htt
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by laotzu 11y ago
>"By phonemic transformation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds" -McLuhan
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by laotzu 11y ago
>Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and e
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by laotzu 11y ago
>Avoiding the risk of transgression has become more important to us than carrying a difficult position for God. And it is this that is killing us. "The more dangerous a thing, the more is its conquest ordained by life": it is f
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by laotzu 11y ago
Agreed but it is just postponing the inevitable. The bailout and bankruptcies made their closed-source hierarchical paper system even more highly centralized, while the superior electric medium is doing the exact opposite in becoming more d
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by laotzu 11y ago
>all swear an oath to the Constitution. Not to the queen, not to the president, not to the United States government, but to the Constitution for which it stands. Technically the United States Armed Forces oath of enlistment is sworn to t
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by laotzu 11y ago
>Education should not calculated solely in economic terms because there are social returns to it. Tell that to Pearson and the rest of the private education industry. They are legally obligated to view education in economic terms over so
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by laotzu 11y ago
Divide et impera
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by laotzu 11y ago
>Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Eg
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by laotzu 11y ago
The bigger they are the harder they fall
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by laotzu 11y ago
Because the high level business model remains the same. Seeking perpetually increasing short term profitability instead of long term sustainability. Carrot on a stick.
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by laotzu 11y ago
Blockbuster thought they were too big to fail too
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by laotzu 11y ago
>In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgr
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by laotzu 11y ago
>Despising money is like toppling a king off his throne. -Chamfort, yeah, the French guy that shot himself in the head twice and still didn't finish the job

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