(come to think of it, evaluating "progress" requires the ability to compare across longer timescales, so the goldfish* of the Brave New World need not even have the illusion, because they never reflect)
* would an Edwardian complain that our recent discovery of "Goldfish with PhD's" has created entities which can expound upon the meaning of everything but the value of nothing?
some times I can't even begin parsing what you mean :) it scares me a little, but also thrilling-- like very very abstract BDSM? Hope that's reciprocal :)
Which means: I see value in your (rhetorical?) questions.. because .. I still sense deep unease? (Pardon the manic schizo)
Like you always say, & I try to hold to heart: a problem worth its salt must bite back. You nibbled, but confronting the nature of (emergent society-wide) "sadism"(?) that is still somehow also seductive (to the most based of "us", I imagine), that's putting 1's head in the lion's jaw? Abstract, but feels very real<=>live Swiss style mil exercise?
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/paying-scho...
In short, let's hasten slowly, so that we can one day put 3's and hope that'll choke the lion for a bit.. meanwhile shall we concentrate these dangerous thoughts on the periphery of our minds? (Ie centrifuge)
Paul mentioned pornography elsewhere.. he has a far less sophomoric style imho (being fullish time father of real boy explains it for me*) than either of us?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44492326
*so, not quite sabra as Joseph https://64.media.tumblr.com/6d601f74ae9201df318403b8c7e25b32...
But I also don't see myself as the kid in that pic, more as the memeshirt, or beer, or daisies ;)
Maybe if we're still he'll be curious enough to come back? One of the distractions of the world of atoms is that a fox near us had 3 kits a few months ago, and we often see them early morning/late evening. Now they're getting old enough to be scared off by humans, but when they were really small they would either be curious about us or (when multiple) ignore us because they were playing among themselves, so we managed to get within a few metres a few times...
I think he just has a different reply strat, we have little choice but to follow his low visibility lines (seems most HN compliant in retrospect)
Sorry about the one line responses to your technical posts, I wouldn't do that if I didn't think that's the best way to get interesting followups
For adults, relative size is a consideration? (But this one looks a bit on the young side? And the eagle was the curious one here :)
+(arguably self-)
It looks to me u guys could collab or at the very least mildly banter about parsing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44369612
That's on my stack as well but too deep down atm so I'm only lurking abt
>In defending this ''union of desire and esteem,'' Lasch reveals himself as a true puritan -- not in the pejorative sense of being prudish, but in the sense of believing that good societies (on the small scale of families and the large scale of political communities) can be sustained only if desire is sanctified by respect. This is why the New England Puritans (to whom Lasch grew increasingly sympathetic as he grew older) thought of marriage as a ''miniature commonwealth,'' a model for human relations in which
-- a liberal who thinks that humane societies must curb excesses of wealth and poverty, a conservative who thinks that individual members of such societies should be held accountable to a standard of personal responsibility.Emphasis mine: Edwardian Liberal
But also:
"The feminist movement,..., far from civilizing corporate capitalism, has been corrupted by it. It has adopted mercantile habits of thought as its own.