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Thought for the Day: language and semantics

Apologies if anyone tried to read the first link ( I hit post by accident ), this is now the real thing *ahem* … so without any further ado, let’s get cracking.

In my life experience the greatest cause of arguments I have seen ( by far ) is misunderstanding, and it seems apparent to me that the most common cause of this, is the lazy and incorrect use of language. For which reason I’ve started to put some definitions of terms into the wiki.open-empire.org subdomain ( though so far this is only a handful of terms relating to economics ) … but I wanted today to share with you my thoughts on language, the failure of online dictionaries, and people’s common misuse, misunderstanding, and lack of concern about how they use language. Continue reading “Thought for the Day: language and semantics”

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Update: April 4th 2017 – what remains of my things after cyclone Debbie

The 2 tool boxes, the plastic tub, the carboard box, the shopping bag, the smaller backpack behind it ( the big backpack is someone else’s ), and the travel bag underneath it are mine … I’m not sure what’s salvageable from that, very little will be worth the cost of transporting elsewhere.

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Trickle-Down Economics: aka “pissing on your head and telling you it’s raining”

It’s astounding, but people today – despite everything they’ve seen – are still brainwashed by this idea, many of them even think they’re against it, state their opposition to it, then immediately afterwards demonstrate their support of it without realising they’ve done so … and that’s a pretty scary level of brainwashing. Continue reading “Trickle-Down Economics: aka “pissing on your head and telling you it’s raining””

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Thought for the Day: not “types” but STAGES OF capitalism

Many people come to the erroneous defence of – or only partial willingness to admit – the flaws of capitalism. They see the problems that are occurring, and will usually say something along one of the following lines:

  • That’s not capitalism’s fault, that’s because capitalism isn’t being given free reign
  • That’s not capitalism, that’s crony capitalism
  • That’s not capitalism, that’s vulture capitalism
  • That’s not capitalism, that’s socialism / communism

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Thought for the Day: hate your cowardice

There’s not a lot of good uses for hatred, but I found 2 of them during the course of my life. In my 20s I took up smoking cigarettes, and 5-6 years later was able to quit, in part because I broke off the love part of that love-hate relationship ( at least long enough to let me quit ) … and now once or twice every 2-5 years, I might have a rollie ( rolling tobacco – perhaps containing whacky weed ), or I might have a cigar – but it’s very rare either way, and leaves me with no desire to re-take-up the habit. Continue reading “Thought for the Day: hate your cowardice”

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Ego – it’s not a dirty word

SkyHooks' Red Symons in engyptian consume, from the song "ego"

At the outset I want to say that I am misinterpreted, misrepresented, and misunderstood by some people on an almost constant basis … they’re convinced they couldn’t possibly have interpreted anything even slightly incorrectly, convinced there’s nothing I could possibly say that would be valid or add any significant change to their interpretation of events, and convinced that the values and methods by which they’ve interpreted the situation are unassailable. Continue reading “Ego – it’s not a dirty word”

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