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In reply to this comment by RhesusMonk:
I was hoping to see what you might say about my comment
http://www.videosift.com/video/American-Dementia
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unfortunately dead
http://www.videosift.com/video/John-Pinette-Just-for-Laughs-First-Appearance
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Aww, man. This is dead for me....Too bad.
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Awesome. That is all.
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^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentation_theory
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I'm gonna take this opportunity to get a little corny; if you have a weak stomach, skip to the next comment.
This video, and most like it, make me tear up. It seems as time goes on, I come to this place (the sift) more and more just to get my fill of all that is wrong with people on this planet. It's great to feel a sense of purpose by showing myself who and what I'm up against in this world, but from creation science to multinational corporate control to a disinterested population growing out of control, it can get a little overwhelming. When I'm confronted with how amazing things really are around here, geologically or otherwise, I still get wide-eyed and I feel like I'm in fourth grade again, learning that earthworms can actually regrow parts of their bodies. I guess this place is a real mixed bag, and the extremes are getting more and more extreme. Or maybe I'm just growing older and seeing things a little differently.
Or maybe I've just got problems.
Anyway, thanks for a touch of the old catharsis, Eric. Sometimes, I think we're all guilty of forgetting what's good.
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A marine who trades his gold star for a pink diamond? Am I alone in appreciating the irony?
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Why discard the Cornholio compilation? I was DYing...
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I have not read the essay you quoted, though I like the idea of a modern rhetorical dialog. I am actually a trained Classicist and a biological anthropology master's student. From both these fields arises the only conclusion worth discussing: namely, and I quote the title of a questionable book "War is a force that gives us meaning." For better or worse, it is, as your quote describes, the captain of human selection, aside from microbial flashes in the pan every millenium or so. Our species is defined by how well our ancestors fought one another in competition over resources: only the badass have survived. The badassness I'm talking about is not only evident in our physical forms (skeleto-muscular and cognitive forms), but is also present in the very threads that weave we individuals into our cultures and our cultures into societies. I embrace the idea of a cultural revolution against these tendencies, but without basing such a revolution in the above premise, the cause is as doomed as all attempts have ever been.
>> ^snoozedoctor:
Distorting historical facts is low, I'm disappointed in Wilcox.
Sounds like you must have read Will and Ariel Durant's essay "The Lessons of History" that accompanies their 10 volume work "The History of Civilization." The short essay should be required reading for every school kid.
From Chapter 11, History and War (presented as a debate between general and philospher)
Sounds like you must have read Will and Ariel Durant's essay "The Lessons of History" that accompanies their 10 volume work "The History of Civilization." The short essay should be required reading for every school kid.
From Chapter 11, History and War (presented as a debate between general and philospher)
General;
"War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war. We have acknowledged war as, at present, the ultimate form of competition and natural selection in the human species. "Polemos pater panton," said Heracleitus; war, or competition, is the father of all things, the potent source of ideas, inventions, institutions, and states. Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only be acknowledged supremacy or equal power."
Philosopher;
"Perhaps each of us, while maintaining adequate defenses, can arrange nonaggression and nonsubversion pacts with other states, and from these accords a world order may take form within which each nation will remain sovereign and unique, limited only be agreements freely signed. We ask you to join us in this defiance of history, this resolve to extend courtesy and civilization to the relations among states.......if you and we succeed, we shall merit a place for centuries to come in the grateful memory of mankind."
General;
"You have forgotten all the lessons of history.....interludes of widespread peace are unnatural and exceptional; they will soon be ended by changes in the distribution of military power. You have told us that man is a competitive animal, that his states must be like himself, and that natural selection now operates on an international scale. States will unite in basic co-operation only when they are in common attacked from without."
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The Battery was attacked REPEATEDLY in the colonial period. I like this piece, but I can't stand manipulating facts to make people's hearts bleed.
Also, what I have to say is probably unpopular, but, welcome to the world, ladies and gentlemen. War is the norm for state level societies, always has been. You think you don't like it? You see a possibility for another societal ontology? I assure you, you are not that smart.
http://www.videosift.com/video/A-River-Runs-Through-It-Final-Scene
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My skin is icy. Sorkin is a god. "Feckless thug." Gorgeous. Too bad amrty said "gracis tibi ago" instead of "gratias." If this sifts, I'll do some work on a full translation of the rest. =)
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Swear to Christ, I didn't see the description before I wrote that^