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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Culture Culture
« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2020, 01:59:37 pm »
But they really sucked at love so.  It's what people do with things like science or love or ball-peen hammers that matters.

Agreed.  Even with good intentions, you can cause harm with good tools.  Mistakes happen.

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If love is a universal language its probably pretty simple and more along the lines of 'I'd love to eat that thing' or 'I'd love it if that thing didn't eat me'.

Or 'I love my mother'.  The weird thing is that the Nazis thought they had love down.  They had love of race down to a science.

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You mentioned your love for the word interregnum. This could be it or it may just be the transition to one. The term is associated with a longer period of time between an old and new order as in the interregnum that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire. OTOH it could also be a quicker switch like the one the Black Death triggered.

It was from this:    A lot of people love this guy, he's a certain vintage of leftist as I understand.

The interregnum was thought to be between the end of the written word and the rebirth of tribalism in the visual world.  But we are now in a new world that combines both written, aural and visual into a plastic and limitless point-to-point system.  And we are actually witnessing the fall of empires, at the rate of one every 15 years or so.

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People are one thing and something certainly matters more than the game when competing for fun. When competition is fun it suggests to me the cultural struggle to do better has been won. But when cultures compete its all fun and games until...well I guess cultures can also fall into the trap of playing the player instead of the ball. Decadence also seems to be something that precedes and attends the undoing of many cultures, they lose resiliency become brittle, it doesn't take much to knock them of their pedestals if they're unprepared and they can shatter into hundreds of pieces.

I believe that there exists a range of balance, within which a culture will reflect, and adjust its ways.  A single viewpoint, such as from an emperor, or a group that holds more power tend to set that balance off.  In balance, competition of ideas will generate a meritocracy. 

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What makes it fake? A feeling you generate or an impression you receive?  Science tells me I am little different from anyone else where it matters but culture says otherwise.  Maybe we could ask a more universal question like 'what am I' and compare the results. It seems easy enough to put ourselves in other people's shoes and easily see there really is a 'we' which kind of underscores the reality of my individuality.  I mean you're fairly certain I'm not a Russian bot right?

Advertising projects false ideas, in the same way Narcissus' mirror worked for him. 

"What am I" is a big question, and people can't even answer it for themselves let alone a group.  "What should I be doing" is actually a better question, and in answering that as individuals and a group we can find out what we are.

I hate to break it to you but... You, my friend, are no Russian bot.