Rafael Thundercat

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    @LordFall you would love to read Allan Bloom. 

    Here is a sentence from his book:

    Picture a thirteen-year-old boy sitting in the living room of his family home doing his math assignment while wearing his Walkman headphones or watching MTV. He enjoys the liberties hard won over centuries by the alliance of philosophic genius and political heroism, consecrated by the blood of martyrs; he is provided with comfort and leisure by the most productive economy ever known to mankind; science has penetrated the secrets of nature in order to provide him with the marvelous, lifelike electronic sound and image reproduction he is enjoying. And in what does progress culminate? A pubescent child whose body throbs with orgasmic rhythms; whose feelings are made articulate in hymns to the joys of onanism or the killing of parents; whose ambition is to win fame and wealth in imitating the drag-queen who makes the music. In short, life is made into a nonstop, commercially prepackaged masturbational fantasy.

    Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

    Contemplate what is his Bias

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    I want to add on this thread also a book I am reading from Nigel Biggar. The book is " Colonialism a Moral Reckogning" 

    I got the book first thinking it would be about Anti-colonialism, but the book is actually defending Colonial Empires and somehow sugarcoating the consequences of Slavery etc.. 

    I will take a look on it as a exercice of perspective taking. And having in mind that perpectives can be valid but not having the same High consciousness level. The author start defending Cecil Rhodes, a colonialism tha had a big impact on África history. The bias is that Cecil was Anglican and Nigel Biggar is also Anglican. Funny.

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    Nice you put this here now. i was just digesting all the thing being said by all sort of people about all that is happening now in America. And it came to me that although what many people say may have some piece of truth or perpespective, the real truth is that America is a complex ecosystem, and we love to over-simplify complexity in order to avoid frying our little daily energy. So in the end a lot is lost in objectivity. 

    I take for exemple my body. If I am having some health problem I can sit and wonder for years what is going on wrong. Or I can make exams, check imbalances in my nutrient intake and exercise, lack of sun, limphatic system,nervous system regulation,emotions,chackas balanced etc.. overall the good health can be achieved not in perfection but enogth to be considered good and functional. 

    In the case of a body of a country the question is: How can we be the most objetive possible? What metrics to pay attention, of course not all can be quantified, but what I mean is, to be able to see through noise we would need to be first super objective, and more, having in account the data we dont have acess. 

    Without objectivity we get lost in a ocean of opinions, and second to a video of Ezra Klein, one of the tatics of this folks is to confuse by overflowing the field with a lot to process.