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"More and more information, less and less meaning." - Jean Baudrillard

"The more words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone?" - Ecclesiastes 6:11

"Let's start from the premise that more information, more empowerment, is fundamentally the correct answer" - Eric Schmidt

One of these two quotes is not like the others...

Try keeping a sketch pad for quick illustrations or perhaps a notebook for poems. The world is filled with inspiration! Not only will you be more present, but you'll be turning your seemingly humdrum life into a work of art!

This is a study about monkeys. How does this and why should this apply to humans?

And what about biological males who would rather dress and act like the women in their society?

How does this anecdote prove that it was biology and not the same kind of transgendered cultural preferences?

Born an uncultured male, raised an American boy, prefers life as an American woman.

Born an uncultured male, raised an American girl, prefers life as an American man.

As far as I can tell this only shows that adult gender expressions have very little to do with biology or childhood.

Are babies born gay? You might as well be asking if babies are born doctors or poets!

Monkeys don't have language and culture.

This study suggests nothing about the impact of culture and society on human individuals.

Little boys and girls also don't want to eat their vegetables or pick up their toys.

What do babies have to do with socialized adult behavior?

I'm not saying that biology has no impact on behavior, I'm saying that it barely has any impact when compared to the influence of language and culture.

Being that we're hairless apes who rely on clothing, fire to break down our food, and a host of other technologies just for basic survival, I'd say our natural biology is pretty damned unimportant when it comes to such high level behavior such as preferred profession in the Western world.

Your culture and your language are by far much more responsible for your desires and actions. Just look how easily mankind is swayed by mere words to go to war!

He is active on a variety of social media and uses discussions on Twitter as evidence in the article in question.

His views on contemporary American political discourse are mainly shaped by these interactions on social media.

Unfortunately, the rest of the media is also on social media, so you can't really find a journalist or blogger who is in touch with reality.

Just to clarify, Twitter is as close to reality as World of Warcraft. At least with an MMORPG the players realize it is a game. Funny enough, more people are dying from playing video games like WoW than from alt-right/SJW altercations.

Scott's problem is that his forum for discussion is social media.

No one can speak meaningfully and reasonably about anything on social media, let alone the politics of racism.

The medium makes the message almost completely devoid of meaning.

Seriously, there is no problem with the operating definition of racism outside of social media.

Every idiot screaming about the alt-right (or their phantasmagorical counter-part, the social justice warrior) is just someone who spends too much time on Twitter.

Might as well be complaining about what policies the Orc players in WoW use to justify who they vote for.

Social status in my circle has more to do with your songwriting chops and finger picking skills than driving a German luxury car.

Townes Van Zandt is one of our heroes and he died basically broke and unknown.

Maybe your problem is you're not hanging out with enough poets.

Funny enough, here's a verse from my latest:

Driving in his Mercedes-Benz,

Talking on his Bluetooth headset,

About the national debt.

With his hand-picked best friends,

A past he better damn forget,

That's the winning mindset.

Chorus:

Cuz he knows what to do,

He's just better than you,

He goes to all the right places,

Knows all the right faces,

He only gets what he chases,

He's just better than you.

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Good luck in the rat race!

Just like the "legitimate demand" for heroin or cigarettes!

While we're at it can we get rid of the FDA so we can go back to a world filled with the "legitimate demand" for laudnum sold as a miracle cure for consumption, hysterics and gout?

Neoliberalism, by mixing ethical relativism with social Darwinism, allows for some rent seeking asshat to sleep well at night because they authorised a marketing campaign featuring a black woman.

Good job, Team Progress! All we need are just a few more empty words and a few more empty products... We're almost there!

Symbolic logic can help us build airplanes and bridges.

It cannot help us explain art, politics, and the nature of existence.

The world is a lot less computable than you seem to believe.

But honestly I think you're just being silly and stubborn while arguing with strangers on a website.

I went on an extended international tour in 2006, opening up for The Shins and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and it left me broke, homeless and unknown. I was living on couches, drink tickets and a $20 per diem.

It was a fantastic experience but it made me realize I didn't really like life on the road and that I needed a more secure source of income.

I'm very fortunate to live in a musical household and have a lot of musicians in my life. My wife and I both write and sing songs together. I've got a crew of people who get together to play covers and jam.

It is incredibly rewarding and gives me a very real sense of participating and contributing to my culture and community.

When I was a social media addict living my life through a screen while theoretically living in San Francisco I was frequently pulled down by bouts of depression.

Ever since I quit social media, got rid of my smartphone, discovered bluegrass and country music and moved to a place where these musical cultures are a fundamental part of society my life has gotten so much more rich and satisfying.

I'm a professional musician living in Austin, TX. We are very lucky here to be living in a city that actively subsidizes live music, but this place is exceptional.

At one time there was live music in every single pub in the country, if only just some drunk playing sing-a-longs on one of the ubiquitous pianos of the era. Nowadays the vast majority of restaurants, bars and private gatherings utilize recorded music instead of a live band.

I am most definitely in direct competition with DJs for wedding gigs, and they have less costs and a greater range of song materials to choose from.

Your posts read like someone who is convinced that technological "progress" never has any negative repercussions.