one day i will be able to explain why i hate, yes hate this thinking
Banning porn in public is good. Agreed. Why? idk… to protect children? A child of 5yrs?…10..16,18,21,30,33? And protection from what? porn in starbuck, sex clubs with a window or behind a nondescript door, strip club in a strip mall, topless performers just onside of town, nude beach, topless beach, burlesque? what age for what and where? Parents choice, yes. Which parents? those in Kabul or San Fan? What is sexual repression and what are the effects? At what point are we stiffening society to protect children that are hurt in the end by the rule meant to protect their younger selves? idk
Tumblr is banning more than porn, which is a big part of the problem.
..Tumblr’s sexual content fostered a community for those of various sexual identities – and even empowered women.
“empowered” as in a cross the board is abridge to far, some? a few?
mentioned the need for outsider before, and we do. That does not mean they should be lauded and forced into the main stream.
..“problem with pornography is not that it shows too much, but that it
shows too little.” Porn and explicit images veil the human person,
concealing them from being totally loved in favor of a disposable
culture.…But the reason the media should be applauding both is the same: Porn
warps communities and distorts female empowerment by failing to
acknowledge their total human dignity and intrinsic value.May have found my problem, prison of 2 ideas, a false dichotomy.
Is watching an MMA fight “
failing to
acknowledge their total human dignity and intrinsic value.“?
I can’t like or admire something or someone in the moment i find them
because i don’t i”m that moment know the whole of their existence or
value?A junk food / reality tv analogy could be made as well, though better not to.
It would be better if we stop telling people not to eat junk food. we should tell they should eat real food more. The absolutist condemnation of things harmful in mass quantities is harmful and undermines the ability to learn self control.
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How Culture Makes Us Smarter
And it’s easy to see why the capacity for cumulative culture is useful.
In a nutshell, cumulative culture is the ultimate time-saver. Because of
cumulative culture, we don’t need to reinvent the wheel with each new
generation – quite literally. We don’t each need to have our own Eureka
moments to understand fluid dynamics; we don’t each need to have an
apple fall on our head to understand gravity; and we don’t each need to
dream of a snake eating its own tail to understand the structure of the
benzene molecule. All we need is to go to school, or to own a library
card, or to have an Internet connection. We can then download into our
brains some of the achieved knowledge of the species. This subsequently
becomes the starting point for the next round of innovation.
Our mind tools include, first and foremost, the words and phrases of
the languages we speak. Each word and each phrase is a handy little tool
for thinking – a prosthetic aid to cognition, as the philosopher Daniel
Dennett put it.6 Other important mind tools include probability theory, cost-benefit analysis, time management,
financial planning, and counting to ten when you’re angry. These tools
are a lot like smart-phone apps. The more apps you download onto your
phone, the more your phone can do. Likewise, the more mind tools you
download into your brain, the more that you can do.And you don’t have to be an incurable optimist to see that our mind tools get better with time
I don’t like making the point, however the race/IQ debate should be over culture/IQ debate.
What Bill Buckley Would Say to Conservatives Today
I stressed that Buckley delineated the critical difference between
the conservative movement and the Republican Party, which are two
separate institutions. The latter is a political party interested in
winning races and gaining power. Conservatism is an intellectual
movement dedicated to ideas that often have political application. The
fortunes of the conservative moment are not automatically tied to the
inevitable ups and downs of the GOP.I concluded by pointing out that in his leadership of the
conservative movement, Buckley sided with T.S. Eliot, who wrote that
there are no lost causes because there are no gained causes. Indeed,
Buckley welcomed the never-ending struggle to preserve and protect the
priceless idea of ordered liberty.That cause wasn’t lost in Buckley’s day, and it still isn’t lost today.
“idea of ordered liberty” Ordered by who? to what end?
a nation ruled by laws not men can still be ruled by the men who write them and destroyed be those who enforce them
Media Bash Tumblr’s Porn Ban, but Applaud Starbucks’
one day i will be able to explain why i hate, yes hate this thinking
Banning porn in public is good. Agreed. Why? idk… to protect children? A child of 5yrs?…10..16,18,21,30,33? And protection from what? porn in starbuck, sex clubs with a window or behind a nondescript door, strip club in a strip mall, topless performers just onside of town, nude beach, topless beach, burlesque? what age for what and where? Parents choice, yes. Which parents? those in Kabul or San Fan? What is sexual repression and what are the effects? At what point are we stiffening society to protect children that are hurt in the end by the rule meant to protect their younger selves? idk
Tumblr is banning more than porn, which is a big part of the problem.
..Tumblr’s sexual content fostered a community for those of various sexual identities – and even empowered women.
“empowered” as in a cross the board is abridge to far, some? a few?
mentioned the need for outsider before, and we do. That does not mean they should be lauded and forced into the main stream.
..“problem with pornography is not that it shows too much, but that it
shows too little.” Porn and explicit images veil the human person,
concealing them from being totally loved in favor of a disposable
culture.
…But the reason the media should be applauding both is the same: Porn
warps communities and distorts female empowerment by failing to
acknowledge their total human dignity and intrinsic value.
May have found my problem, prison of 2 ideas, a false dichotomy.
Is watching an MMA fight “
failing to
acknowledge their total human dignity and intrinsic value.
“?
I can’t like or admire something or someone in the moment i find them
because i don’t i”m that moment know the whole of their existence or
value?
A junk food / reality tv analogy could be made as well, though better not to.
It would be better if we stop telling people not to eat junk food. we should tell they should eat real food more. The absolutist condemnation of things harmful in mass quantities is harmful and undermines the ability to learn self control.
Porn on Tumblr — a eulogy / love letter – Vex Ashley – Medium
1st post got flagged
there is a volume to be written on the need for outsiders or the 10% creatives
a give and take is needed between the 10 and the 90 to change the culture, that is not what has happen over the past 50+yrs, its been others pleading for the 10% to control the 90%
Porn on Tumblr — a eulogy / love letter – Vex Ashley – Medium
Modern Intellectuals’ Affinity for Nonsense
With
skill and humor, this exercise can fill the void with engaging
nonsense. But instead of confining such mind-flexing and tongue wagging
to – let’s call it “small talk raised to the nth” – mindless authors of
visual and audio communications commit their stuff to digital media,
paper, or art materials. Their allegorical erections may look impressive
but a few of us do sense the hot air in excursions common to sociology,
behavioral “science,” and symbol-minded treatises like The
Interpretation of Dreams. We notice too how useful a ploy this can be
for selling ideas.“I
don’t like to think,” a young man once told me ( his exact words). This
stunning confession from an otherwise fine young person was to me
direct evidence that his mind was deformed by a defective system of education that dates back to John Dewey. It marked him as an asset of amoral strategists who care more about an agenda
than the welfare of their fellow human beings. It is beyond sick that
the young in America who, like this individual, “don’t like to think”
must depend on “authorities” and “experts” who despise the collective
wisdom of people smarter than they, garnered over many centuries,
regarding the most important things in life.The
drift from reality in so many young minds today – thanks to the
progressive dismantling of intelligence in the public schools – must
halt if living in a civilized society still means anything at all.
Modern Intellectuals’ Affinity for Nonsense
With
skill and humor, this exercise can fill the void with engaging
nonsense. But instead of confining such mind-flexing and tongue wagging
to – let’s call it “small talk raised to the nth” – mindless authors of
visual and audio communications commit their stuff to digital media,
paper, or art materials. Their allegorical erections may look impressive
but a few of us do sense the hot air in excursions common to sociology,
behavioral “science,” and symbol-minded treatises like The
Interpretation of Dreams. We notice too how useful a ploy this can be
for selling ideas.“I
don’t like to think,” a young man once told me ( his exact words). This
stunning confession from an otherwise fine young person was to me
direct evidence that his mind was deformed by a defective system of education that dates back to John Dewey. It marked him as an asset of amoral strategists who care more about an agenda
than the welfare of their fellow human beings. It is beyond sick that
the young in America who, like this individual, “don’t like to think”
must depend on “authorities” and “experts” who despise the collective
wisdom of people smarter than they, garnered over many centuries,
regarding the most important things in life.The
drift from reality in so many young minds today – thanks to the
progressive dismantling of intelligence in the public schools – must
halt if living in a civilized society still means anything at all.
Modern Intellectuals’ Affinity for Nonsense
With
skill and humor, this exercise can fill the void with engaging
nonsense. But instead of confining such mind-flexing and tongue wagging
to – let’s call it “small talk raised to the nth” – mindless authors of
visual and audio communications commit their stuff to digital media,
paper, or art materials. Their allegorical erections may look impressive
but a few of us do sense the hot air in excursions common to sociology,
behavioral “science,” and symbol-minded treatises like The
Interpretation of Dreams. We notice too how useful a ploy this can be
for selling ideas.
“I
don’t like to think,” a young man once told me ( his exact words). This
stunning confession from an otherwise fine young person was to me
direct evidence that his mind was deformed by a defective system of education that dates back to John Dewey. It marked him as an asset of amoral strategists who care more about an agenda
than the welfare of their fellow human beings. It is beyond sick that
the young in America who, like this individual, “don’t like to think”
must depend on “authorities” and “experts” who despise the collective
wisdom of people smarter than they, garnered over many centuries,
regarding the most important things in life.The
drift from reality in so many young minds today – thanks to the
progressive dismantling of intelligence in the public schools – must
halt if living in a civilized society still means anything at all.
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