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I do agree this is adding to the pile of shite posts, however I really must correct Paula when she says – “for example would he address me, the male bus driver, the man fixing his roof, his manly plumber or builder, any party member including for example Cde Buick, the policeman or fireman, the surgeon, the doctor, the headteacher and so on as “pet”. Of course not.”
Of course I would, and not just me
See and also not gender specific
I call lots of “manly blokes” hinny or pet, if not that then I would say marra (For cde Buick it would probably be marra). Only exception from your list would be a male police officer, who I really enjoy calling either son or sonny, that is where I do genuinely try to be patronising and belittling, it winds them up like a cheap watch and they can’t say a thing to an auld git like me.
In West Yorkshire, where I work often, it’s quite common for men to call each other love, and when I worked in Hampshire some of the older guys would often call me either “flower” or “my lover”.
Regarding my unconscious mind, I prefer to leave that to Sigmund
As for stopping digging when you’re in a hole, being from at least 5 generations of miners (including my great grandmother!), I’m probably genetically predisposed to keep on digging!
Anyway, isn’t telling me I can’t express myself in my native language a little bit racist? 😉
“I knew immediately what was meant by your use of the word “pet”, as I do by the geordie term “hinny”, you sexist shit.
You see, my knowledge of linguistics knows no bounds 🙂”
Except the terms Pet and Hinny are non gender specific, Geordie blokes address other blokes using both terms. My mother regularly called me pet and hinny, my brother always the phone to me saying “y’alreet hinny?”
Many female partners regularly address their partners using “pet” or hinny”
As the song goes
“I’d bless the ground for the welcome sound of mee mutha saying hinny Howay”Seems like your linguistic skills actually do have bounds
“First, I’m not your pet and never going to be.”
As you like correct understanding of language, pet is not used in this context as meaning an animal companion, it is a shortening of the word petal. Don’t worry though, Hinny, lots of people make the same mistake.
Almamater
I think this journalist has done us a favor because the concept of a moneyless society is widely discussed in the internet, and also the real concept of socialism can be widely explained, and workers are browsing on our website
Completely agreed
Lizzie – “Look, there’s no way people are going to choose a society that has not been tried and tested, and which to them appears to be a prescription for cloud cuckoo land.”
Howay pet, you keep telling us your an astrophysicist, (a wee bit needy?). All innovation and change requires us to look at options and alternatives. Travel to the moon wasn’t tried and tested up to the point that they did it and no future societal development has been tried or tested. That’s the way it works.
The change from Classical Slavery to Feudalism was a move from a tried and tested into a new type of society.
Another ecample, did the populace of France think to themselves, “Oh no, a despotic monarchy and the divine right of the monarch is a tried and tested system let’s stay with Louis XVI” Did they bollocks, they (eventually) cut his head of.
I do though agree with the view that we need to spend much more of our efforts showing that Socialism is a “Practical Alternative” to quote Pieter Lawrence (again), and to also look at the practical ways in which we could bring about and operate a socialist society.
I, personally, think that it is wrong to ignore the way that Sinn Fein brought about their “Irish Revolution”. Although it was a capitalist change, they set up the “shadow” administrative organisations before the Treaty was signed.
We need to show in a practical way how a system of common ownership (subject democratic control) could be set up. Instead of saying to people, “You will sort all of this shit out” we need to say “we have well researched, practical and effective ways of sorting all of this shit out, but we need your input to develop this”
“I wonder whether in the end they will agree on a single Trotskyite candidate.”
Have you been on the Buckfast wine, ALB?
That would need Trotskyists to come together in agreement!
If they did though, they could ride into town on a unicorn and get mermaids to swim up the Clyde and do a bit of syncronised swimming in Strathclyde Loch.
As they used to say, one Trot equals a tendency, two Trots equals a party, three Trots equals a split.
I know Cde Cox stated that there is no desire to sell up at Clapham High Street. I personally think we should sell up and buy something that is more suited to our needs and doesn’t require the refurbishment that the current HO needs.
A quick look on the net and I came up with this option, which would leave us £300,000 to the good, if the valuation for Clpaham High Street is correct, and not taking into account the fact that we might be able to get it a bit cheaper:
https://www.loopnet.co.uk/Listing/399-401-High-St-London/27999763/
I also noticed that there is a link in the article with the word campaigns, which goes to the party website. What’s not to like!
“This factual account isn’t showing the party in a good light. It’s difficult to get across the message that we want a society without money, when we have assets of £2.6 million and only 157 voters. I don’t think it’s our wealth that’s the problem, it’s our lack of popular support when compared with our wealth. Have we become a party that gets rich achieving nothing?”
That’s the beauty of the Socialist Party, there is no leader to tell you what to do and what not to do. So if any member feels that we are not carrying out enough activity, the solution is quite simple, go off and carry out the kind of activity you think is lacking. If it needs more than one person encourage other members to assist you. That’s really the essence of the socialist case.
I don’t think it is difficult to get the across the message that we want a society without money, when we have assets of any amount. It woudl be a hell of a lot harder to get the message across without any assets. It also shows that as socialists, even within the constricts of capitalism we can democratically manage our resources effectively and appropriately.
As to how it looks, a report ont eh BBC will hit thousands of people, who knows, a few might check out our website, one or two might even look in on this forum. No publicity is bad publicity, as they say.
Socialist man will…’hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner’…and visit the lavvy before retiring.
If you can last till then mate, top man. These days my bladder gets more exercise than my legs!
I don’t think it is fair to describe MacLean’s triune brain model as “bunk” and although Sagan’s promotion of the theory did lead to a rise in it’s popularity, it is also inaccurate to say that MacLean’s Triune hypothesis was at the time “well outside the mainstream of scientific theory” then or even to an extent now.
I would also question the veracity of both the author who wrote the article linked , he is a journalist who is “qualified in biology and zoology” (have a look at some of his other articles to get a feel of the quality of his writings) and Joseph Pitt who is a Philosopher of Science and Technology and not really commenting on his field of work.
A more nuanced response is the Yale Obit (linked to the article) that states,
“His death represents the passing of an era, because he was really the model of the move towards understanding the brain in evolutionary terms,” ……. “A lot of our contemporary advances ride on top of his work, even though in hindsight it was misleading. That happens a lot in the sciences, and we don’t often give credit to the false starts that really push us along the way.”
MacLean’s work has continued to be influential and although it is inaccurate, as it doesn’t explain the interactions between sections of the brain and although the “hat on top of hat” model has been surpassed, it has been part of the general development of an evolutionary model which helps to understand the way in which the different functions of the brain have evolved.
A description of the way in which the Triune Brain model has been adapted and developed is available in the link below.
What I find interesting in this article is the section which lays out the plasticity of the brain:
“we propose replacing “triune brain” with a term that better captures current understanding of brain function: the adaptive brain. In this conceptualization, the term adaptive brain emphasizes the interdependence and plasticity of brain regions and the brain’s ability to predict and adapt to future needs and conditions.”
and also what it states about cooperation:
“Three key adaptations that have developed over human evolution to improve prediction and response are quick emotional responses, slower cognitive responses, and seeking others’ help to cooperatively respond to the stressor”
As part of the argument that Socialism is against human nature, I have always argued that actually it is not and that it fits in easily with a vital part of human nature.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.802606/full
A few years ago I did an Open University course on Physics and on one of the summer schools we had a lecture from a scientist who had been part of a Nobel Prize winning team. She talked about fundamental particles, light, time and space, quantum mechanics, etc. I kind of understood some parts of what she was talking about, but that only lasted about 5 minutes and by the time I got out of the lecture room I had lost the thread.
However I remember that she did talk about the possibility that there might be something that is a constituent of a quark, although most scientists are sceptical about this and think that a quark is indivisible.
She said that her guess would be that actually matter did not actually exist and that all of it was possible to go back further into the formation of matter it would end at just energy. She did give some reasoning for that, but it was a bit like an acid trip, so along with the rest of us I nodded sagely and rubbed my chin inscrutably.
“Following Dietzgen, he’s talking about how in order to make sense of the world and operate within it, we chop up the observable world of phenomena and abstract it into different categories and concepts in our minds. What he said about atoms could be said about anything else.”
Ah, I see, I should have read the rest of the sentence. Piaget expressed a similar concept when he talked about the development of mental structures as children develop “These structures of mental operations are applied on representations of objects rather than on the objects themselves. Language, mental images, and numerical notation are examples of representations standing for objects and thus they become the object of mental operations.”
Good to hear you are with us Oh Great Feathered One. Hope the world (or perhaps I should say your perception of the world) is treating you well.
I think that what Pannekoek was trying to say was that atoms at that point were theoretical non observal concepts inferred from observal phenomenon. Atoms can now be observed.
https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1652-seeing-atomsMatter is not all that exists, Dark Matter is likely to exist and antimatter also exist.
The space also matters. The space has an impact on the appearance and behaviour of the substance, for example H2O might be steam, water or ice. The molecules are the same what is different is the space between them in the three different states.
It’s a bit like music, the notes are important but sometimes it’s the gaps that are more important.
If you listen to one of Eddie Van Halen’s dreadful and busy guitar solos it is full of notes but not (in my opinion) very interesting, and then compare it with a guitar solo by Paul Kossoff, much slower but full of emotion and beauty, it (to my mind) shows that it is not the notes he plays, but rather the notes that he doesn’t play that are important.
