tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post8511145737205373422..comments2024-03-27T23:12:08.917-07:00Comments on CONTRARY BRIN: Aiming for lateral accountability: Cameras will either help... or thwart... Big BrotherDavid Brinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-87443081889713338292021-05-29T20:49:55.031-07:002021-05-29T20:49:55.031-07:00There is lots here. I'm tempted by the notion ...There is lots here. I'm tempted by the notion that feudalism is not only a bad thing, but quite obviously to blame for most all other bad things in the history of human life. First, I think you're defining this term rather vaguely -- such that it doesn't simply refer to the dominant social system in medieval Europe. Of course, in this sense, it's a historiographical term. Even in that context, I might add 'broadly defined' to a discussion about it, and of course whatever this describes was also not conceived of as a formal political system by the people who lived during the Middle Ages. If there is such a thing as the classic definition, then it seems almost entirely irrelevant to your usage, which strikes me rather like lots of people use the word 'capitalism' -- it's to blame for everything, unhappiness, death, the ugliness of some buildings downtown, etc. Sure, a broader definition of feudalism is possible. By that, though, I would mean that we could get into the nobility, the clergy, and the peasantry, all of whom were bound by a system and so forth. There is what is sometimes referred to as a "feudal society". And yet, there has been ongoing inconclusive discussion among medieval historians as to whether feudalism is a useful construct for understanding medieval society. The notion of tossing the word around like we have the panacea for it strikes me as being not any smarter than any old political rant, or, as being about crackpotish enough to sound like a science fiction writer, which okay, I should have expected.. I digress.<br /><br /><br />'Elite intellectual families like the Huxleys show what happens when brilliant people marry brilliant people. All too often, mental and neurological instabilities are rife as offspring dance along a razor's edge.'<br /><br /><br />Biographers have sometimes noted the occurrence of mental illness in the Huxley family. Given that several of its members have excelled in science, medicine, arts and literature, I think there might be simply nothing to your speculation here that one thing is correlated with the other. Dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11915977609430813824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-38086996096474038022021-05-25T14:05:31.535-07:002021-05-25T14:05:31.535-07:00You know, both Martin Luther King and Gandhi credi...You know, both Martin Luther King and Gandhi credited cameras with saving their own lives, as they marched and took on entrenched power nvm they're dead. And also, nvm.Dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11915977609430813824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-32484894353707119852021-05-22T12:17:41.187-07:002021-05-22T12:17:41.187-07:00"I am a thorough man, and when I throw rocks ..."I am a thorough man, and when I throw rocks at birds I leave no tern unstoned." -- Ogden Nash.Hendrik Boomhttp://topoi.pooq.com/hendriknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-28688408304311389132021-05-22T12:08:35.373-07:002021-05-22T12:08:35.373-07:00Isn't accrued capital a *consequence* of agric...Isn't accrued capital a *consequence* of agriculture? It's a lot easier to store grains and some other plant products than to store meat.Hendrik Boomhttp://topoi.pooq.com/hendriknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-63497938887299324242021-05-15T16:22:57.882-07:002021-05-15T16:22:57.882-07:00Re - Declaring War
It sounds like a good idea to ...Re - Declaring War<br /><br />It sounds like a good idea to declare war back on them<br /><br />But look at the "War on Terror" - <br />IMHO treating the attacks as a police matter NOT NOT NOT a "War" would have worked a whole lot better!<br /><br />And the same for the "War on Drugs" - <br />The "War on Drugs" was had the effect of converting the US Police into something more like an army of occupation <br /><br />I'm with Alfred on this - not so much "easier" as "more effective"duncan cairncrosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14153725128216947145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-12717540243443321002021-05-15T15:04:28.310-07:002021-05-15T15:04:28.310-07:00onward
onwardonward<br /><br />onwardDavid Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-340559061853487202021-05-15T08:43:32.520-07:002021-05-15T08:43:32.520-07:00Alfred Differ:
It's not cowardice to avoid re...Alfred Differ:<br /><i><br />It's not cowardice to avoid responding in kind when someone declares war on us. <br /></i><br /><br />I wasn't charging cowardice. I was warning of a losing strategy. We're in danger of being the Indians that George Carlin alluded to in his now-politically-incorrect bit about Indian Sergeants. "Just because they started in Manhattan and wound up defending Santa Monica doesn't mean they were bad."<br /><br /><i><br />We CAN reasonably argue that they aren't worth it as long as we have a process we think can cope with their actions while respecting the rule of law.<br /></i><br /><br />And what we saw--barely--in the 2020 election makes your point. But what I'm seeing happen since then--purging of "rule of law" Republicans in favor of Trumpists, states passing hundreds of voter-suppression laws, state legislatures taking back the power to assign electors--concerns me greatly. I'm afraid that the rule of law itself will become one more tool for maintaining Republican rule.<br /><br />In that scenario, your argument is like the judge (I forget whether state or federal) in the Wisconsin gerrymandering case who asserted with a straight face that if the voters of Wisconsin don't favor gerrymandering, the remedy is at the ballot box.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-13507809246227380342021-05-15T08:41:17.916-07:002021-05-15T08:41:17.916-07:00CB is at the high end of my cognitive ability, esp...CB is at the high end of my cognitive ability, especially during a trough in my stroke-brain cycle (described before, not worth repeating). I try to be succinct out of respect for others' time. I can't respond to every little provocation; suffice it to say that I know a lie, strawman, grift, or troll when I see one. Although my contributions to enlightenment (citizen science efforts) are meagre, they're not zero or even worse, negative. I serve no foreign masters and posterity is my only investment.<br /><br />Most of my circle are clannish folk, certainly not 'busybodies & meddlers'.<br />I take it personally when fascists:<br />peddle conspiracy theories/myths to them<br />offer them malarkey instead of policy<br />grift them out of next month's rent money<br />tell them to mock the 'other', the disabled, science, and education<br />transpose their allies and enemies (or rewrite history in general)<br />steal their children's future<br />hide and deny the beauty of the world<br />scidatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04992209167553267488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-68348945843029332342021-05-14T23:41:51.331-07:002021-05-14T23:41:51.331-07:00Larry,
Pretending we're still in peacetime is...Larry,<br /><br /><i>Pretending we're still in peacetime is not an option.</i><br /><br />Which fort have they openly shelled and taken?<br /><br />It's not cowardice to avoid responding in kind when someone declares war on us. We CAN reasonably argue that they aren't worth it as long as we have a process we think can cope with their actions while respecting the rule of law. Easier to do with an internal threat with little military power.<br /><br />I'd argue that our refusal to counter declare infuriates them. <br />Hah! Tough bull cookies for them.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-89702504538041604062021-05-14T16:14:32.022-07:002021-05-14T16:14:32.022-07:00Dr Brin:
But we are at war for the survival of an...Dr Brin:<br /><i><br />But we are at war for the survival of an enlightenment experiment that you and your fellow neo-feudalist are eager to destroy, using lies, hatred, violence and every trick imaginable or provided by your foreign masters.<br /><br />Including the trick of attempting to guilt trip us into not treating it as the war that you have blatantly made it.<br /></i><br /><br />That's what I was getting at with Der Oger a while ago. "<b>They've</b> openly declared war on <b>us</b>, and are actively prosecuting that war. Pretending we're still in peacetime is not an option."<br /><br />Crushing Hitler worked much better than appeasing Hitler did at achieving peace with Germany. Or as Toby Ziegler (in <i>The West Wing</i>) put it, "They'll like us when we win."Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-15745261319260485412021-05-14T15:37:16.622-07:002021-05-14T15:37:16.622-07:00Locum your (well-expressed) whine is based on a de...Locum your (well-expressed) whine is based on a deceitful premise, that YOUR mad confederate cult is somehow the victim side in all this. But we are at war for the survival of an enlightenment experiment that you and your fellow neo-feudalist are eager to destroy, using lies, hatred, violence and every trick imaginable or provided by your foreign masters.<br /><br />Including the trick of attempting to guilt trip us into not treating it as the war that you have blatantly made it. <br /><br />Are there cancel-culture, social justice warrior types on our side who can fairly be called bullies. Sure, and they think zero sum, a lot like you and your mad rightist cult. In fact, many of them hate their moderate allies, who so far control the reformist-modernist movement, far more than they hate you. Read Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, to see how dangerous those folks could become... though right now they are mere irritants! While moderate-reformistpositive sum types are generally in charge of the Democratic Party etc.<br /><br />If your mad swirl of oligarch/commissar worshippers gets your way, the moderates will fail and today's skyrocketing wealth disparities - now at French Revolution levels - will trigger the real thing. I suppose you'll be much happier then, as your mad, paranoid fantasies come true. Whichever side wins... as we all lose... at least it will be something you can understand.David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-85827704349435146632021-05-14T13:03:24.797-07:002021-05-14T13:03:24.797-07:00There seems to be a bizarre concordance between Sc...<br />There seems to be a bizarre concordance between Scidata's assertion that Pinocchio's New Adventure opening title sequence equals "One of the best Enlightenment memes ever" and the assertion that the proliferation of sanctimonious hyper-partisan gossips, bullies, busybodies & meddlers somehow equals an increase in cultural cohesion, social harmony, heterogeneity, individuality, tolerance, diversity, and a dislike of all forms of bullying <i>as both of these assertions are absurd fictions & fairy stories</i>.<br /><br />I mean, honestly ... <br /><br />How many of you here would happily accept cruel hurtful constructive criticisms from someone that you hate, distrust, fear & label 'traitor', who is neither close friend nor family member?<br /><br />I suspect that transparency has a limited in-group (and/or familial) utility, as in the case of the Middle East where Israelis & Palestinians (who practically live in each other's pockets & know each other all too well) are just over-flowing with a preponderance of cultural cohesion, social harmony, heterogeneity, unity, individuality, tolerance, diversity & a dislike of all forms of bullying <i>because familiarity breeds contempt</i>.<br /><br />Familiarity breeds contempt, the old adage goes and, if we assume that this adage is true, then we must also assume that our increasingly transparent (as in 'overly familiar') society is well on its way towards mutual contempt, civil conflict and social schism.<br /><br /><br />Bestlocumranchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06812045410916208141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-84947406027675867312021-05-14T09:51:38.351-07:002021-05-14T09:51:38.351-07:00Jeff Bezos is dissing SpaceX, saying that Everest ...Jeff Bezos is dissing SpaceX, saying that Everest would be a much nicer place to live than Mars (stressing over Blue Origin much?). That completely misses the point of course. Escaping an Earthly ELE (EELE?) is the goal.<br /><br />Re: Decency<br />Two good Lincoln Project shorts are "Decency" and "Civility".<br /><br />This ties in with negativity bias and syntonicity. A rustling in the savannah grass and a diabolical conspiracy theory are two very different potentialities. They shouldn't be processed using the same mind machinery. I've been thinking about 'syntonicity' a lot lately, trying to come up with synonyms and antonyms (dictionaries haven't embraced it yet). One antonym I've come up with is: puppetry. Demagogues are experts at pulling our psychological strings.<br /><br />There was a 1960s TV show called "The New Adventures of Pinocchio". The opening title sequence showed Pinocchio's strings being cut with scissors. One of the best Enlightenment memes ever. It effortlessly reveals the 'both sides are just the same' lie. I greatly admired that unseen cutter.scidatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04992209167553267488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-52500210218611233232021-05-14T07:24:58.760-07:002021-05-14T07:24:58.760-07:00Is it time for a re-imagining of Dr. Seuss's &...Is it time for a re-imagining of Dr. Seuss's "The Sneetches", substituting face masks or vaccine passports for "stars upon thars"?<br /><br /><i><br />...<br />Then, of course, those with stars got frightfully mad.<br />To be wearing a star now was frightfully bad.<br />Then, of course, old Sylvester McMonkey McBean<br />Invited them into his Star-Off Machine.<br /><br />Then, of course from THEN on, as you probably guess,<br />Things really got into a horrible mess.<br /><br />All the rest of that day, on those wild screaming beaches,<br />The Fix-it-Up Chappie kept fixing up Sneetches.<br />Off again! On again!<br />In again! Out again!<br />Through the machines they raced round and about again,<br />Changing their stars every minute or two.<br />They kept paying money. They kept running through<br />Until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew<br />Whether this one was that one... or that one was this one<br />Or which one was what one... of what one was who.<br /></i>Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-78578277608310404022021-05-14T06:43:47.134-07:002021-05-14T06:43:47.134-07:00Something I posted here years ago that I just happ...Something I posted here years ago that I just happened to stumble across. I thought it was worth repeating in these trying times.<br /><br />I think that in my more coherent moments, this is what I aspire to, although I readily admit to often failing to live up to the ideal...<br /><br />* * * <br /><br />Kurt Vonnegut's secular definition of a saint (which, IMHO, the author himself exemplified) :<br /><br /><i>"Someone who acts decently in an indecent society."</i>Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-17070351728594809922021-05-14T06:29:23.155-07:002021-05-14T06:29:23.155-07:00Slim Moldie quoting:
But as this case proceeded--...Slim Moldie quoting:<br /><i><br />But as this case proceeded--and it lasted nearly nine full trial days--Duffy, for the first time in his experience as a lawyer, became convinced that nothing did happen. There was no wreck. As the witnesses paraded to the stand and told their stories, their versions, things begin to disappear. The street corner where it was supposed to have happened, a corner Duffy had walked and measured himself, disappeared under the weight of cross examination of the lawyers and under the weight of the crossed versions of witnesses.<br />...<br /></i><br /><br />Aren't we already there with the Capitol insurrection? I mean, we all saw it on tv. We know many of the participants from their <b>own posts</b> on FaceBook and Twitter. And yet, Republicans in Congress and in local governments throughout the country are morphing the event into something other. "The protestors were the only victims." "Antifa did the violence <b>pretending</b> to be Trump supporters." "They were just patriotic Americans who <b>never broke the law</b>."<br /><br />And then, there's this:<br />https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/opinion/cheney-2024-election.html<br /><i><br />With enough procedural mischief, politicians representing a minority of the country could hand the presidency to a candidate who got a minority of both the popular and Electoral College votes. If this has never been an evident danger in the past, it’s because both parties were at least outwardly committed to liberal democracy, and probably thought their voters were, too.<br /><br />That is no longer true. The Republican electorate, believing that Democratic victories are by their nature illegitimate, demands that everything possible be done to subvert them. For rejecting the anti-democratic turn in her party, Cheney — a right-wing extremist in many other regards — has been cast out. Republicans are showing us exactly what they expect of their officials. They’ve made it clear that while American democracy was given a reprieve in 2020, the work of repairing it has barely begun.<br /></i><br />Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-27535597535016189572021-05-13T23:06:28.838-07:002021-05-13T23:06:28.838-07:00Slim Moldie,
Heh. I'm pretty sure Yard Duty w...Slim Moldie,<br /><br />Heh. I'm pretty sure Yard Duty would use fixed cameras and microphones on school grounds. Feeding multiple audio sources with accurate timestamps into software that can fold the feeds together supports removal of many static sources and movement of the audience 'ear' through digital means. Back that with video from a few vantage points and facial recognition and they'd be able to reconstruct exactly who said what, when, and to whom.<br /><br />No one would have to wear any devices, but they probably would the same way second amendment fans want concealed carry rights respected.<br /><br />I don't know how to transition between this world and that one through legal means, but I wouldn't mind living in the future version. There are risks like you describe, but I suspect we'd figure out how not to screw each other after awhile. 8)Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-4317397136449171222021-05-13T18:27:58.690-07:002021-05-13T18:27:58.690-07:00I meant Nice quote.I meant Nice quote.David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-60118027716276631032021-05-13T18:27:39.318-07:002021-05-13T18:27:39.318-07:00ic quote, Slim/ic quote, Slim/David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-73375750339968627152021-05-13T16:24:48.263-07:002021-05-13T16:24:48.263-07:00I'm not disagreeing with Dr. B about the need ...I'm not disagreeing with Dr. B about the need for reciprocal accountability by any means. I am worried about a failure to agree on a definition of reality...<br /><br />What if--even with cameras everywhere, because of the latter agreed reality definition failure issue, we get a scene like this passage I'm quoting out of a Harry Crews novel, All We Need of Hell? <br /><br />"The trouble was confusion. Duffy's. He was used to every witness telling a different story. Sometimes stories so radically different that they could not possibly have to do with the same phenomenon. That was just courtroom reality. But you always knew that something had happened though, because you always had a dead body or a burned building or a certifiably forged signature or, as in this case, a lady who could not turn her head. But as this case proceeded--and it lasted nearly nine full trial days--Duffy, for the first time in his experience as a lawyer, became convinced that nothing did happen. There was no wreck. As the witnesses paraded to the stand and told their stories, their versions, things begin to disappear. The street corner where it was supposed to have happened, a corner Duffy had walked and measured himself, disappeared under the weight of cross examination of the lawyers and under the weight of the crossed versions of witnesses. The car, with its crushed rear end, was next to go as mechanics and police experts and insurance adjusters converged at the stand to say how it must have happened, whether the car was in motion or at rest when struck, how hard it was struck, if perhaps the dented and banged-up rear end was not the evidence of an old wreck and not in fact struck this time at all. Next the doctors came and they were the worst of the lot. They had probed with their fingers. But they all had different fingers and their different fingers felt something different. They had taken X-rays, but my God, the vague smudges they found significant were incomprehensible to everybody else in the courtroom because each doctor found them significant for a variety of reasons, none of them the same, and all directed toward a different medical conclusion. So the lady's neck disappeared next. She obviously did not have a neck. It scared the hell out of Duffy. He spent all the recesses doing push-ups..."<br /><br />Slim Moldiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04804029818709230857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-50995454111708170862021-05-13T16:03:44.849-07:002021-05-13T16:03:44.849-07:00Alfred, totally agree, of course the yard duty mig...Alfred, totally agree, of course the yard duty might not be pointing in the right direction and get written up for missing the conflict. <br /><br />Locum defines Transparency... "is what we call it when the gossips, bullies, busybodies & the judgmental (who someone dares designate as Good_People) expose, reveal and revel in the cheats, foibles, shortcomings & failures of Bad_People, and Tyranny is what we call it when the gossips, bullies, busybodies, voyeurs & the judgmental (who someone dares designate as Bad_People) expose, reveal and revel in the cheats, foibles, shortcoming & failures of Good_People."<br /><br />Sure. But back to my argument. The Ds and Rs and Independents have different standards of accountability within their own sub-groups. Al Franken is arguably still defined as a "good person" by the majority of his sub-group, however his sub group has agreed to normative behaviors to which he has agreed to be held accountable to. (I'd hope most parents can relate to this.) The R-sub group, however does not hold its members accountable to the same social contract, thus if Al Franken were member of the R sub-group he would have suffered no political repercussions. (Obviously, if both Al and his accuser were filming the encounter the issue might have resolved differently.) <br /><br />Contrast to the R-sub group, where Liz Cheney is arguably denounced publicly as a "bad person" and stripped of her leadership by the majority of her sub-group for stating objectively probable facts that countermand the sworn oath fealty all members of the R-sub group must swear to a guy who plays life like it's a deadly-sins bingo game.<br /><br />And what if a culture chooses to redefine objective reality so facts don't matter?<br /><br />...<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Slim Moldiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04804029818709230857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-25577277961953488722021-05-13T15:41:13.575-07:002021-05-13T15:41:13.575-07:00Dr. Brin It may seem idealistic, but it happens al...Dr. Brin <i>It may seem idealistic, but it happens all the time.</i><br /><br />A million years of natural selection for negativity bias has led us to confuse idealism with fantasy. Hopefully we escape this trap before extinguishing ourselves.scidatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04992209167553267488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-14784514262958607062021-05-13T12:59:54.448-07:002021-05-13T12:59:54.448-07:00Der Oger there are plenty of sins to lay at the fe...Der Oger there are plenty of sins to lay at the feet of the empire of primitive brutes called Pax Americana. Who were nonetheless vastly vastly LESS brutish than any previous nation that was tempted by great power. Find me a counter-example that had such a high ratio of good to bad deeds... or who ever, ever, ever promulgated (via Hollywood) a mythic system that encouraged criticism of the empire, especially among the empire's OWN CHILDREN. A reflex that you learned exactly that way and that you express... and that may save us all.<br /><br />See VIVID TOMORROWS: Science Fiction and Hollywood - http://www.davidbrin.com/vividtomorrows.html<br /><br />Locumranch, on vitamins, clearly, is expressing his disagreement very well! In fact, I agree that under most conditions, lateral transparency would lead to oppression of smaller groups for their differences, by larger majorities. It is a flaw to the project. Though note:<br /><br />1- he ignores the fact that these problems arise because at least transparency prevented top-down domination by Big Brother.<br /><br />2- he ignores the fact that laterally OR vertically enforced homogeneity is despised by all of us, as much as he claims to. (In fact, of course, his cult would do both, the instant they got a chance. But for now let's pretend he is sincere.)<br /><br />3- he ignores the power of the option I discussed earlier... that CULTURALLY there are other lessons than SoA spread by Hollywood memes. Like eccentricity as a good thing, individuality, tolerance, diversity, and a dislike of all forms of bullying. If those hold, worldwide, then transparency exposes bullies and they back off. It may seem idealistic, but it happens all the time. And there are no other paths to a soft landing.<br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-72615055060551630502021-05-13T12:10:37.682-07:002021-05-13T12:10:37.682-07:00By questioning the term 'lateral oppression,&#...<br />By questioning the term 'lateral oppression,' Slim_M begins to understand the disingenuous & incredibly partisan nature of this discussion:<br /><br />Accountability is what we call it when Good_People attempt to call Bad_People to account; and Oppression is what we call it when Bad_People attempt to call Good_People to account.<br /><br />Both terms describe identical action, the only difference being a subjective value judgment about the relative 'good-ness' or 'bad-ness' of the purported actors.<br /><br />Larry_H makes the same arbitrary distinction when he condemns 'punching down' as bad_acting, bullying, oppressive & offensive, while he applauds 'punching up' as good_acting, brave, righteous & defensive, despite the fact that 'punching' in any form is an act of violence.<br /><br />We see this same pattern over & over again in every type of media coverage, the omnipresent political narrative of Good_People versus Bad_People and (as always) in the interminable Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.<br /><br />What we are left with is this functional definition of Transparency:<br /><br />Transparency is what we call it when the gossips, bullies, busybodies & the judgmental (who someone dares designate as Good_People) expose, reveal and revel in the cheats, foibles, shortcomings & failures of Bad_People, and Tyranny is what we call it when the gossips, bullies, busybodies, voyeurs & the judgmental (who someone dares designate as Bad_People) expose, reveal and revel in the cheats, foibles, shortcoming & failures of Good_People.<br /><br />By another name, this is also what we call Progress, when we reject, replace, dismiss and discard the ancient, outworn, puritanic traditions of Good and Bad & Right and Wrong.<br /><br /><i>Then sweetly she mocked his scruples, and softly she him beguiled:<br />“You, who are verily man among men, speak with the tongue of a child.<br />We have outlived the old standards; we have burst, like an over-tight thong,<br />The ancient, outworn, puritanic traditions of Right and Wrong.”<br /><br />And deep in his hell sang the Devil, and this was the strain of his song: <br />“The ancient, outworn, puritanic traditions of Right and Wrong.”</i><br /><br /><br />Bestlocumranchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06812045410916208141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-81980223137518023132021-05-13T10:44:27.796-07:002021-05-13T10:44:27.796-07:00Slim Moldie,
Yard Duty wouldn’t need footage from...Slim Moldie,<br /><br />Yard Duty wouldn’t need footage from the kids. They’d have their own.<br /><br />Video from a distance and multiple microphone audio. <br /><br />Sure. It can be used to resolve issues between kids. It would be sold as a security measure against various other crimes like kidnap by divorced parents, gang detection, and sexual harassment .Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.com