Tainari88 wrote:I do know a lot about Suriname and I think about tiny nations...like Nicaragua and their culture, history and etc. I think about Djibouti and every other TINY nation in the world. I have a philosophy....that if you get to know the most unimportant nations (or the nations the Empires say are worthless?) you wind up learning a lot.
Indeed. I don't think that requires a philosophy, but rather a desire for knowledge.
Tainari88 wrote:You are wrong about me in many ways.....
I am not surprised.
You're just like everyone else. You have a prejudicial relationship to your own point of view. Hence, you talk regularly about Puerto Rico, but you don't talk about Suriname unless I bring it up.
Tainari88 wrote:Reagan...was someone you admired? Ay, BJ. I never liked that man. Never thought him someone who's leadership was original, striking and profound....not my type of politician.
Socialists are relentless, and Reagan understood that. Trump understands it culturally and is even better at combatting it culturally than Reagan. Liberals, by contrast, seem a bit lazier to me, especially Republicans.
Tainari88 wrote:Are you looking forward to Denny's Senior Menu in a few years Relampaguito?
Not particularly. I don't eat out as much. I have a pretty big kitchen at home. I don't commute for work, so I enjoy a bit of cooking.
Tainari88 wrote:You can loathe it but how is universalism NOT part of human beings BJ?
It is a concept. My point is that socialists and liberals take something that may have local popularity and applicability and try to make it a global standard unnecessarily. Socialism is every bit as destructive of culture as capitalism can be. Maybe even more so.
Tainari88 wrote:That is universality BJ.
That is reproductive fitness, not universality. Science may give you answers that are not consistent with your political views. Just as you read voraciously as a young student (I did too), I learn quite a bit by defending unpopular ideas--why I ended up bringing Octavian Caesar's public institution of marriage into a debate on "gay marriage" at a time when people kept arguing that marriage was about love and feelings when the history and the law does not bear that out at all. Studies on reproductive fitness sometimes help explain--though not agreeably to a socialist--why things such as double standards may exist. For example, in humans, reproductive fitness has an advantage where women are primarily monogamous and men are not. It doesn't fit the political model of men and women are equal and men cheating being acceptable and women being slut slut-shamed is unfair.
Tainari88 wrote:We are all one type of species.
And that is abstraction, not quite universality. Again, abstraction can be thought of as a controlled form of ignorance.
Tainari88 wrote:Not just the globalist multinational corporations, and international banks jumping from one nation to another that protects their profits no matter what language or culture they seep into....it is universalist in principle.
Banks aren't there to protect profits, per se. Banks facilitate a store of value and facilitate transactions. Banks profit by paying depositors and charging borrowers, and by clearing transactions. In my experience in computing, I've learned something that I think is more fundamental to nature--simplicity scales, complexity does not. For example, the law of negotiable instruments is relatively simple and allows for the facilitation of transactions by means other than cash, especially over long distances. It's relatively simple.
Tainari88 wrote:They are the ultimate universalists BJ.
In some respects. The reason it works, though, is that they discharge anything unnecessary to achieve their objectives. For example, checking accounts were the province of rich people. Bank of America changed that by making checking accounts available to people of average means. As more and more people got checking accounts, the costs of clearing checks exploded. Banks hired high school kids to do a lot of that clearing. At one point, Bank of America realized that at the rate the business was growing, they would hire all the high school girls in the country and still not have enough personnel. They needed a technological breakthrough. They came up with two technologies. MICR encoding (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) and machine-readable fonts--the beginnings of optical character recognition. With that, they could simply run checks through a scanner and only have to type in the dollar amount--radically speeding up the process of check clearing. That's why scanning checks on your smart phone is available now. You still type in the amount, but the ABA and account numbers are machine readable.
Tainari88 wrote:They are successful at the universality of their greed.
The need to obtain resources is common to all living things--and hence could be thought of as universal.
Tainari88 wrote:You can deny it and say thermodynamics says there are limits. There are limits. But not to the greed of the capitalist class that is internationalist. But to how much a planetary system allows you to violate natural physics laws, and species replenishment laws, and every other law that rules a loop system.
There are limits. In my lifetime of experience, my observation is that simple systems scale and complex systems do not. Complex systems require some kind of encapsulation.
Tainari88 wrote:They are ruled by a series of the Power of Myths. What are these myths and who believes in them as if they are a law of physics? Human beings.
Indeed. The reason I think we are where we are politically is that the establishment pushed myths that are simply not accepted. For example, I do not accept that gay marriage is part of the US constitution. I do not accept that homosexuality is a fundamental right. As a libertarian-leaning person, I understand the desire to limit the negative effects of the state and so I'm generally tolerant of the decriminalization of homosexuality. As a conservative, I understand the historical push to stamp it out for at least two reasons--increasing reproductive fitness, and staving off sexually-transmitted diseases in pre-scientific populations. Today, we have a political class that is pushing gender non-binary, transgender, etc. stuff when we had 20M able-bodied people out of work. Trump addressed that unemployment problem and is widely loved because of it. Yet, the establishment's latest divide and conquer, push for a universal agreement on things like global warming or deviant sexuality is not universally accepted to the point that they are now losing power. Trump simply trashed the establishment when no establishment politician would do that. Bernie is challenging their myths too. It's interesting that these utterly improbable politicians are the ones with the most grass roots popular support.
The establishment is playing a dangerous game. Think about a $20 bill. It is just a scrap of paper. It is the ultimate myth. It has no intrinsic value. If the establishment keeps pushing radical ideas, people will completely lose faith in the establishment.
I pointed this out after 9/11--that the establishment more or less had to go to war, because 9/11 showed that the establishment, for all its military spending, did not keep the American people safe. Remember the 2016 presidential debates? Jeb Bush defended his brother saying that George W. Bush kept us safe (after 9/11). Trump took a swipe right back and said that 9/11 happened on his watch--and it was an undeniable truth.
Tainari88 wrote:Why go to those nations? For a job? Because it is part of your job?
For fun. Remember that I hate Latinos only in your imagination, not in real life.
Tainari88 wrote:Why is the internet in all these nations?
People adopt technological change quickly, but cultural change very slowly. The internet is a series of very simple stacked protocols. Simplicity scales. IP, TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, VoIP, UDP, SMTP, etc. are all very simple. Simplicity scales.
Tainari88 wrote:So how can you argue that that is a liability when you can use it to liberate, and give universal rights to all the people in the world if they all agree on a universal human rights charter?
You are living in denial BJ.
It only takes one person to disagree for something to not be universal. You say I'm living in denial, which implicitly acknowledges that universalism is not achieved.
Tainari88 wrote:The reason you went to those societies is because there were humans there.
Well, that's an absurdly abstract assertion. There are a lot of societies with humans there that I haven't visited.
Tainari88 wrote:Who consumed a product you were selling or doing.
I was on vacation.
Tainari88 wrote:The reason why African slaves were imported to do unpaid labor in the Americas for a couple of centuries was because they were human and could do a job only human beings can do.
Again, that's absurdly abstract. The reason they were imported is because in the climate of the Caribbean and American South, Northern Europeans died at high rates quickly from exposure to the elements, but blacks died at much lower rates in the same environment. There was a compelling incentive; otherwise, it wouldn't have been done.
Tainari88 wrote:Ay, BJ, why do you insist on denying what is obvious to many people?
Again, abstraction is controlled ignorance--it's meant to find commonalities, not to render out relevant distinctions.
Tainari88 wrote:I don't get how a natural law of thermodynamics is saying that different working class people within a multinational system can't have identification with other humans of the same species and the same class saying....we can't agree.
I'm saying that entropy increases--disorganization. The tendency is that organization will not materialize in a universal sense; it's safer to bet against universalism or everyone in a single class organizing around the world.
Tainari88 wrote:Why did the capitalist industries move to Mexico in Juarez in the maquiladoras? Because a Mexican speaking Spanish working the same car assembly line as an English speaking American background doing the same job is UNIVERSAL. Interchangable.
They did it to pay less to Mexican workers than they were paying to American workers. It is a labor arbitrage.
Tainari88 wrote:Value clash:
MLK's son and his niece are both Trump supporters.
"We have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics."
-- Joe Biden