Epikur

I think history is mostly liked by conservatives because it is mostly old school tribal competition. Progressives may want to forget big parts of history to be open to create a different world.

I don't think this forum cares much for history. The ones who care approach it like a fun action movie.

Why was India conquered so easily ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvCsn-EDS5o

Could not stop myself:

Scientists have to eat even if they can not discover stuff so some might get 'creative'

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/new-biden-scientific-integrity-policy https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03063-0 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/climate/trump-administration-war-on-science.html

very interesting

I wonder what job perspectives a political scientist would have if he would argue that the military should be reduced by 90 per cent. I guess not so good. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trial-sans-error-how-pharma-funded-research-cherry-picks-positive-results/

People are mostly not so smart to figure out what is good for them, specially if powerful people have an interest to lie to them. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

who is we?

nice one

@BadHippie I know what you mean. I am one of the guys who have to tone down my speech here. Still there are realities that have to be taken in account. If you don't do it it might hurt more than usual. Anyway in general I agree but reality does not agree it seems.

@BadHippie The hippies lost and new ideologies compete for survival. If you want to survive you have to deal with the reality and power of these so called made up concepts. But you can try and live in Lala land.

How can we enlightened when there is no you and I?

@BadHippie You can say it is for pragmatic reasons. It makes organizing the forum so much harder with opening gates for right wing people as a side effect plus it raises the chance to be cancelled.

https://www.news24.com/news24/world/news/uk-report-denies-systemic-racism-prompting-angry-backlash-20210331 Maybe there is a conspiracy to deny systemic racism

https://www.culturalevolution.org/post-progressive-project/

Actually I feel like I don't know what to write about it that is reasonable. I feel like that my subconscious is working on a project and this posting is the first step. So a group of neurons are connecting but it is still a very small group. Later this group might be getting bigger and it will become conscious then I might be able to write something reasonable. The other possiblity is that someone can work with my first step and get the ball rolling. With some effort I might be able to write something reasonable but I feel like it would take too much energy.

@Forestluv I thought he played it badly. He need more acting classes. Maybe his hate for tankies made it difficult.