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Old 02-17-2022, 03:22 PM
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First hurdle is to reach a consensus of just what the common good is. Good luck with that.

Culture is fabric of delusion/illusion woven from the ever shifting bedrock of myth.

"People seem to be hardwired to get things wrong. They confuse opinion with fact, they tend to believe what everyone around them believes, and they are ready to die for the truth or whichever version of it they have clasped to their breast."

"History ... is a point of view, an attempt to impose order on events that are essentially chaotic."

BTW, even my own mother wasn't on my side. Well, at least not always. She never failed to make the same lame point about it being for my own good.
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First hurdle is to reach a consensus of just what the common good is. Good luck with that.

Culture is fabric of delusion/illusion woven from the ever shifting bedrock of myth.

"People seem to be hardwired to get things wrong. They confuse opinion with fact, they tend to believe what everyone around them believes, and they are ready to die for the truth or whichever version of it they have clasped to their breast."

"History ... is a point of view, an attempt to impose order on events that are essentially chaotic."

BTW, even my own mother wasn't on my side. Well, at least not always. She never failed to make the same lame point about it being for my own good.
You sound like a member of the Texas State Board of Education.
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Old 02-18-2022, 09:02 AM
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You sound like a member of the Texas State Board of Education.
That astute observation on history was made by the protagonist in The Engines of God, a SF novel by Jack McDevitt. Pretty sure it's not your type of read though.

I was indeed a member of said board for one meeting. Pointing out that teaching Creationism acknowledged God's imperfection got me unceremoniously booted out the back door.
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First hurdle is to reach a consensus of just what the common good is. Good luck with that.

Culture is fabric of delusion/illusion woven from the ever shifting bedrock of myth.

"People seem to be hardwired to get things wrong. They confuse opinion with fact, they tend to believe what everyone around them believes, and they are ready to die for the truth or whichever version of it they have clasped to their breast."

"History ... is a point of view, an attempt to impose order on events that are essentially chaotic."

BTW, even my own mother wasn't on my side. Well, at least not always. She never failed to make the same lame point about it being for my own good.
I'll take all that as a big negatory on 'the common good.' Anyway, I suspect you slightly prefer greedy, corrupt politicians, since they have not deceived themselves in thinking they are pursuing it.

I was right, you know that no one is on your side. It follows that complaints that anyone in particular is not on your side are redundant.

Am I correct in thinking you scoff at all schemes for social betterment?
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Yes. It's SO easy to understand why Rand Paul's neighbor kicked his ass.
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Yes. It's SO easy to understand why Rand Paul's neighbor kicked his ass.
I'd like to buy that guy a beer.
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I'll take all that as a big negatory on 'the common good.' Anyway, I suspect you slightly prefer greedy, corrupt politicians, since they have not deceived themselves in thinking they are pursuing it.

I was right, you know that no one is on your side. It follows that complaints that anyone in particular is not on your side are redundant.

Am I correct in thinking you scoff at all schemes for social betterment?
You basically got everything incorrect. I always enjoy your predilection to claim a moral high ground though.

Define the common good? I sure can't. Can you?
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