Too late! In America, our "liberty" has been "dependent" on algorithms aka "AI" (i.e. corporations (i.e. "artificial persons")) for over a century already. If we're lucky, AGI will emerge sooner rather than ... before it's too late.it is destroying our liberty and some people want to take this even further by making us dependent on AI. — Athena
And yet, Athena, these 'moral defects' have everything to do with being human – gregarious bald primates – while barely surviving under social conditions of (self-reproducing) scarcity.... we are at each other's throats politically pushing and shoving in power struggles that have nothing to do with reasoning, human dignity, respect, or being a democracy.
They were so disrespected and taken for granted. Today women are no longer tolerating that painful reality as I have until today. This is a serious economic, social, and political problem. We all see that this is going to destroy our nations — Athena
Free high quality education for all from cradle to grave. Is it only the human invention of money that is stopping that from happening? — universeness
Free high quality education for all from cradle to grave. Is it only the human invention of money that is stopping that from happening? Is it not possible to explain to billionaires and multi-millionaires that we are going to take some of their ridiculous surplus and use it to providing free education for everyone in your country of the USA and if they don't like it, they can f*** off and live somewhere else but they must leave their ill-gotten gains in the country? Am I being too 'radical?' — universeness
It dawned on me this morning what a mess we are in because of failing to use the democratic model for industry and failing to prepare our young for good citizenship. — Athena
Moms for Liberty — T Clark
She worked hard all her life as a hospital cleaner. — universeness
... a system that supports a nefarious and privileged few, who live off the sweat and toil of the majority ...
My own early life experience is one of the foundational reasons that I am a socialist and secular humanist. — universeness
So you believe DINO is the best we – humanity – can do? :chin:I do not want to blame anyone for this economic disparity because I can not think of how things could have been done better. — Athena
↪Athena You have my admiration, Athena. Thank I am probably a bit older than you, but I witnessed and became involved in that transition from housewife (perhaps with a degree in home economics) to professional (perhaps with a degree in CS). My first wife grew into that transition while we were married, and left and made a career for herself. At first, painful for me, but, nevertheless, the right move for us both. — jgill
Your story has been the experience of millions of Americans whose lives have been made miserable by capitalism and the policies of both conservatives and neoliberals. These ill effects cut across the working class, gender, geography, and race. That's it in a nutshell.
Our (working class) experience isn't universal. Another class called the ruling class, or upper class, has a much different experience. The functioning of the economy was designed to deliver, cradle to grave, a steady stream of substantial benefits for the top class, through the labor and at the expense of the working class.
Our loss has been their gain. — BC
Father, Alpha male that he is, has time to play with the dog but mother doesn't have time to sit and pet puff. Dick, helmet on and balls in hand, is playing too. Little Sally is being trained to be a household drudge just like her mother.
Where is Jane? Mothers for Liberty might well ask where Jane is--certainly not being supervised by here mother and father. She's probably out on the street being tricked into prostitution. She'll be seeing a lot of dick. — BC
When the only value we share in common is the value of the dollar, and the bottom line is "how much something cost", it is as deadly for a nation as brain cancer is deadly to humans. — Athena
Women, blacks, the seas, the forests, the soil, fossil fuel, fossil fertiliser. Looks like we have run out of things to exploit. There is one thing left, disaster.
https://tsd.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine.html
↪Athena You are not alone; but you are relatively alone here because philosophy is still male dominated. What you need is "feminism". A deal of folk think that to take women seriously means to treat them just like men. That has led, not to the valuing of child-care and caring in general, but to its industrialisation, so as to free women to become wage slaves. That this "liberation" has proven unsatisfactory is unsurprising.
I, nor I fear any here, can direct you competently to the wealth of material available, but assuredly, the analysis and deconstruction of Dick and Jane has already been done for you, Women's Studies is a thing, and Feminist Philosophy, though it lacks any representation here is quite well developed. You need to go talk to your peeresses first, and then come back and educate us neanderthals. — unenlightened
We need to look to matriarchal cultures to know a better way. — Athena
All saints revile her, and all sober men
Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean—
In scorn ofwhich I sailed to find her
In distant regions likeliest to hold her
Whom I desired above all things to know,
Sister ofthe mirage and echo.
It was a virtue not to stay,
To go my headstrong and heroic way
Seeking her out at the volcano's head.
Among pack ice, or where the track had faded
Beyond the cavern of the seven sleepers:
Whose broad high brow was white as any leper'
Whose eyes were blue, with rowan-berry lips.
With hair curled honey-coloured to white hips.
Green sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir
Will celebrate the Mountain Mother,
And every song-bird shout awhile for her;
But I am gifted, even in November
Rawest ofseasons, with so huge a sense
Of her nakedly worn magnificence
I forget cruelty and past betrayal.
Careless of where the next bright bolt may fall. — Graves
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