Lucrèce, un philosophe de l'épicurisme - Conversation avec Michel Onfray
https://youtu.be/WE3RpyL9lgA #Materialisme #Lucrèce #philosophe #épicurisme #Conversation #Onfray
#conversation
Vandana Shiva ~ “This is How We Beat the Great Reset"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJzbdcHQ4-A
In #conversation with #RussellBrand, #VandanaShiva discusses how the #mainstream #media have framed the #Dutch #Farmer #protests, the hidden #land-grab #agenda, and "how #data is not the #highest #evidence for #living - a #good #healthy #body is!"
#shiva #the-great-reset #nature #earth #agriculture #ecology #farms #food #billgates
Making / Keeping Moloka'i - Prequel: Tribute to Buzzy Sproat
Something new from my world of.... why not?
From a #conversation about the expression "bull in a China Shop", common expression in the U.S.
In Europe there is a similar idiom - great name for a band - an "elephant in a porcelain shop".
Quite an interesting difference, as captured in the cartoon versions. #Nuance More below. Going down...
I intended on talking about #talking , #storytalk, #communication #TalkingStory, #discussing #travel #hereandnow
"Flight Plan"
Here was someone I was truly privileged to have known - and video'd! Shared pretzels and fruit @ #COH. :(
A legendary Hawaiian paniolo who heroically brought comfort to the 'leper colony'-> patients on the isolated Kalaupapa Peninsula on Moloka'i. #BuzzySproat #legend #paniolo #muleskinner #hawaii #molokai #RIP
Oh, and he could talk story! Starting with his life.
RIP. Aloha to the aunties & uncles & nieces and nephews.
Sorry about the audio - it won't get louder than the laughter of people or grass-hunting of the mules. Buzzy was funny! 🎧 Earphones &/or full speakers will help to "be there".
This is #Buzzy telling us how we need the mules to choose us and the how to ride down a sheer sea cliff. Not to worry, the mules were fed but they're going to go for the grass. Get to know your mule. By name. Hold on. Trust your mule. Be respectful. Okay! Let's go!
I made a video on Moloka'i with local music and my photos and vids. Info on that is also in the YouTube description.
But here [is the legendary cowboy/muleskinner guide on the #Kalaupapa trails down the sea cliff down to the colony which he personally helped for many years with his mule-back runs down a 26 switchback trail of sheer sea cliff. [ Photography ]
Meanwhile, yes, idioms. Like people, 'diverse'.
People everywhere have some metaphor in non-human nature to explain fellow humans trapped &/or out of control.
The American version of the cartoon is 'children only' (true! on Fox Family TV) - what we all are brought up seeing in cartoons and using as a metaphor for... the raging bull, so oddly finding itself itself thrashing about China. heh #reality
The French version portrays a more civilized #society with an endearing elephant. Agile really: But amid porcelain, maintenant...
Comme un Elephant dans un magasin de Porcelaine
I suppose metaphors, like cultures an fables, idioms and buzz phrases, run deep in the human DNA. Happy Weekend.
#Brainwashing Ourselves: How Digital #Technology is Destroying #Democracy
Source: https://modernheretic.com/brainwashing-ourselves-how-digital-technology-is-destroying-democracy
Accordingly, #digital technology is upheaving our culture and displacing the traditions and norms we were accustomed to, leaving many of us feeling unmoored and undermining our political values.
#Online conversations quickly developed controls in the form of moderators—authoritarian figures who established the rules of engagement and who got to decide what speech was worthy and what was not.
There was a resultant demand for more controls. #Ignore buttons popped up and were quickly used for individuals who espoused ideas that the user disagreed with, limiting their exposure to different ideas and establishing the pattern for the silo-ization of the internet that is dominant today.
Unlike the offline world in which people were judged through personal knowledge, direct observation, and reputation, individuals online could only be judged by the content of their digital output, which reduced them to flat, dehumanized vectors of information to be categorized as #good or #bad
Thus, the new controls spawned by the digital realm to deal with #information overload involved the establishment of a binary, ideological filter to judge whether information—as well as the poster of that information—should be included or excluded in a particular #community.
Unfortunately, once the ideological binary is established as the moral paradigm, group discourse becomes a never-ending #witch hunt.
Group leaders and members are on constant lookout for potential immorality as represented by supposed outsiders to the #group. Anyone who disturbs the group harmony with deviant thoughts can find themselves the sudden target of paranoiac suspicion.
Every #conversation becomes a purity test of sorts, and the only way to prove that you are one of the “good” guys is to make your expressions a reflection of the group’s worldview
#Groupthink became the norm, and anyone who deviated from the group too much would be seen as a danger to the group who needed to be punished or eliminated.
Thus, thanks to the #internet, #intolerance for dissent and demands for #censorship arose as aspirational values of a new moral order.
Consequently, the controls that developed in response to digital technology were exactly those controls that are used in the formation of cults and #totalitarian #regimes, tools to ensure that every person falls in line with the orthodoxy as determined by the leadership of the group.
control of information within an environment (moderation, fact checks, content #warnings, removal of information, prioritizing certain viewpoints, etc.);
- demands for purity in thought to assure that everyone conforms to the group
- sacred truths that cannot be questioned without some form of reprisal, usually removal from the group or platform
- the reduction of complex ideas to trite slogans and memes
- control over who belongs to the group and who does not
- the subordination of the individual to the group
These totalitarian #controls are quotidian at this point, and anyone who participates in discourse on the internet is exposed on a daily basis to enormous pressure to conform their thoughts to the narratives that are perpetuated by those in control of the internet fora.
Without realizing it, we slowly brainwashed ourselves over time with our uncritical and pervasive use of digital technology.
It was therefore inevitable that once we accepted these digital values as normal, they would then infiltrate our offline interactions.
While we think of ourselves as using digital tools to change our world, in reality digital technology is changing us.
Most people in the Western world are never disconnected from the totalitarian culture of the internet. That is why digital cultural norms are now dominating our #society
In effect, the digital controls that developed in order to control the overabundance of information on the internet led to polarized, cultish thinking and conditioning people to believe that totalitarianism is a necessary form of regulation in today’s world.
#Dissent is now treated as a danger that needs to be eradicated. Worse still, this cultish conditioning is bleeding into the #offline world so that anti-democratic, authoritarian measures are increasingly seen as normal in the “free” world.
Many people are chilled from speaking, not just online where they may end up banned by a tech platform, but offline where they face the possible consequences of losing jobs, networking opportunities, and friendships.
The universe of ideas that is acceptable to be expressed is rapidly shrinking and people are exposed to fewer ideas that challenge their views, which further reinforces their #intolerance for differences of opinion in a cyclical manner.
Much like George #Orwell ’s #doublespeak, people in contemporary society are pressured to conceal their true thoughts and dilute their public messages to the point that they become anodyne and meaningless enough that the mob will tolerate them.
Thus, facts, #transparency, and rationality are inimical to digital culture. Conformity, not #truth, is the driving force of digital culture.
By programming individuals to become accustomed to totalitarian regulations on a personal level, it was inevitable that these digital norms would also pervade the political realm.
Anything that could allow a person or group to express an unorthodox idea is suspicious, and therefore in digital culture, the concept of free speech is inherently dangerous.
The paternalistic notion that individuals must be protected from corruption by bad ideas has taken hold of our culture. And this type of milieu control of information enables independent thought to be supplanted by majoritarian #propaganda just as it does in other totalitarian environments.
The assumption that the individual is neither competent to judge the quality of information nor strong enough to be exposed to information of allegedly dubious quality now reigns supreme, bolstering the new flourishing culture of censorship.
They are dismissive because they actually want a world with limited speech, where the window of permissible thought is narrow enough to exclude all the speech they disagree with.
Thus, while digital culture proponents often nominally claim to want to protect minority groups, their insistence on conformity to majoritarian standards ensures that genuine diversity cannot exist in the new moral order
#Speech is an outward expression of inner beliefs, and the loss of freedom of speech is dangerous because it is a threat to the ability to hold and practice a belief system that differs from the orthodoxy.
Consequently, digital morality is a direct attack on #minority rights.
My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist
Persuasion, ch. 16 [Anne] (1818)
#quote #quotation #conversation #good-company #salon
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/austen-jane/51823/
A 19-year-old built a flight-tracking #Twitter #bot. Elon #Musk tried to pay him to stop.
source: https://www.protocol.com/elon-musk-flight-tracker
The #conversation continued for a few more messages. Musk asked Sweeney how much he made off the Twitter accounts, which Sweeney said was no more than $20 a month. Then Elon Musk made his own offer: $5,000 to delete the #account and help the billionaire keep “crazy people” from #tracking his #location.
I'm not telling you this so you know how to blackmail Elon.
I think it would be more appropriate to welcome the rich at the airport with signs that they produce the most #emissions and are therefore a #problem for the #future of the #planet.
#environment #humanity #warming #flight #news #information #fff
interesting intro clip question(s) posed. #consider
Totalitarian Trajectory Vs. Courage
#totalitarian #totalitariantrajectory #totalitarianism #medicaltotalitarianism #courage #charleseisenstein #tessalena #makelanguagegreatagain #sovereignty #freedom #conversation
How much are you willing to take?... Before you finally find the courage to stand up for your sovereignty and your freedom?
How about if we mandate that you stay indoors?
You have to stay in your house, for, two weeks. Is that enough?... For you to stand up and resist? No? Okay.
Lets extend it to a month. Lets extend it to a year. How about forceably injecting you with chemicals that are gonna make you sick. Is that enough? Oh!? No? Okay.
How about if we asked you to do it twice? You're still not going to stand up for yourself? How about three times? How about four times? How about your kids? It's not going to end... Until... We say, ENOUGH!
We should all converse like these two?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcYhV1jPggk
1 min video sound
#video #conversation #toddlers
San Juan Summit ~ 8 Prominent Doctors and Scientists Engage in a Remarkable Exchange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IeVy7jQoz0
'Panel of #doctors and #scientists convene in a remarkable #open #forum about #effective #early #treatment and evaluate the current #one-size-fits-all approach to #Covid #treatment. While the conversation was far-ranging, it often hit on controversial topics around the #causes, #prevention #strategies, and #treatments for Covid. The #goal of the #panel was to be a first step toward having more #in-depth and #open #conversations around the #pandemic. While some of the #conversation veered into the #controversy around #vaccinations, many of the doctors strongly emphasized they do not oppose #vaccines.'
#sanjuan #summit #remarkable #forum #physicians #medical #scientists #health
Guess what? Doubt on Tap is back tonight at 8 pm at the Tap Room Annex. I hope you will join us! #community #conversation
To a talkative fellow, who poured out a torrent of words and then said, “Let’s hope I haven’t been boring you with my chatter!” he replied, “No, by Zeus, I haven’t been listening.”
[πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα ἀδολέσχην, ἐπειδὴ αὐτοῦ πολλὰ κατήντλησε, “μήτι σου κατεφλυάρησα;” “μὰ Δί᾽,” εἶπεν: “οὐ γάρ σοι προσεῖχον.]
Aristotle (384-322 BC) Greek philosopher
Attributed in Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers [Vitae Philosophorum], Book 5, sec. 11 [tr. Mensch (2018)]
#quotation #quote #bore #chatter #conversation #listening #natter #pay-attention
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/aristotle/48713/