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I think conspiracy theories are put out there by the government to hide the REAL truth, which is that we're all in Matrix style pods, feeding the Queen's massive lizard brain like piggies at the teat. 9/11 never happened – show me a civil engineer who said it did, and I'll show you a stooge of the lizard Queen.
Yes, very well put Bill, I agree with all you say. And, at the risk of bringing down the moderator's wrath, may I take this opportunity of saying that I thought your SS article on parliament was very fine indeed. Cheers
So true LB. Makes you wonder why our societies spent all those billions on the Large Hadron Collider when we could have told them for nothing that they were bound to find it if that's what they were looking for. (Sarcasm alert.)
I like what you've had to say on various threads recently Alan, but the "I told you so" thing is daft. A stopped clock is right twice a day!
We see eye to eye on that at least Robin! Though don't we both come from a political tradition that, in caricature at least, makes equally mad claims about billions voting? ;)To get back to the subject of the thread, though, before we get told off by the moderator again, I think socialists should be perfectly relaxed about these kinds of questions. So what if it was found that a tendency towards violence and war is innate, hard-wired into our genes? If true, we need to know it. Not least so we can create social structures that promote peace and understanding between innately crazy creatures. State repression is hardly the only or the best way to achieve this – as anthropology shows all too well.
Isn't Ed Rooksby in Oxford? Did you meet him? Agree with you: the project to form a Ukip of the left has already had more success than I'd have thought possible. But it's the Greens, not LU.
Yes, you could say they're the main movers, and quite a nice lot ("house trained trots" one comrade described them as!). Good luck with the campaign.
And if it is a thing, might we not agree, by reference to the thing, whether or not, for all its complexity, "round" or "flat" best captures it?
I know it means god!But you still won't tell me how we are to decide whether the earth is flat or round. I mean, does the earth's actual shape in reality have anything to do with the decision?
Or, to return to the thread topic, does not the term "hunter-gatherer" actually refer to something in the real world? Does not the question of whether they live more or less violent lives than us have some meaning, ie, refer to something "out there" rather than just "in here" in our minds? If not, I scarcely see the point of discussing anything with anyone.
OK, so I'm listening to what my comrades say about whether the earth is flat or not, learning from them, criticising them, discussing with them – all normal parts of the scientific process. But how are we to decide who's ideas are best? What are we talking about? What are we referring to? Not the real world? Are we not arguing about which of the ideologies is the best approximation to the real world – which of the expressions of relative truth (our ideologies) best point to the absolute truth (the universe)?I mean, is the earth not actually round, independent of what we may or may not think about it?
