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03-01-2017, 12:18 PM | #181 | |
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IMHO really great, literary fiction is an unmatched vehicle for teaching empathy, b/c it requires one to imagine the world as experienced by people that may be radically unlike oneself |
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03-01-2017, 12:21 PM | #182 |
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Horror novels are cool
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03-01-2017, 12:23 PM | #183 |
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Like, after reading, for example, Upton Sinclair's timeless classic The Jungle, one might hesitate before backing a president whose party wants to systematically destroy unions and grant employers total freedom to recreate the kind of horror-show working conditions that dominated during the industrial revolution
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03-01-2017, 12:26 PM | #184 | |
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03-01-2017, 12:43 PM | #185 | |
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03-01-2017, 12:57 PM | #186 | |
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03-01-2017, 02:06 PM | #187 |
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Somehow art moves us to feel for others that just seeing alone doesn't accomplish.
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03-01-2017, 02:20 PM | #188 | |
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A book I read for my political science honours class (Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities) says that the novel was important to the rise of nationalism, because it gave people a sense of their society beyond people they have direct contact with in their immediate surroundings, so the idea of a "nation" (an "imagined community," because people in it sense that they are part of the same community as other people like them whom they've never even met before) could arise. Having synchronic narratives in which events could occur at the same time gave people an understanding that, even if they aren't in direct contact, others in their "nation" are existing and acting at the same moment they are. |
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03-01-2017, 02:39 PM | #189 |
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I have a job and pay for my schooling and I will happily finish. I am not willing to take on the debt.
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03-01-2017, 04:31 PM | #190 | ||
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03-01-2017, 04:38 PM | #191 |
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I guess you could say nationality, culture, and tribe are myths, and improved technology like the printing press made it much easier to spread information, including myths obviously. So perhaps (like probably) the printing press played a role in the evolution of the modern nation state. But feelings of national superiority I think are as old as people
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03-01-2017, 04:40 PM | #192 |
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I am anti borders.
That doesn't mean I wish red would lose his job tho. |
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03-01-2017, 04:45 PM | #193 |
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even chimpanzees demonstrate very clear cultural in/outgrouping. chimps in different places have demonstrably different "cultures" even down to the kinds of tools they know how to use, and they will wage systematic warfare against other groups of chimps.
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03-01-2017, 06:20 PM | #194 |
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03-01-2017, 06:25 PM | #195 |
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nationalism does not necessarily mean feelings of national superiority.
what about people under tyranny advocating national independence from an assimilating nation? |
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03-01-2017, 06:27 PM | #196 | |
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Honestly the book DOES make a ton of very tenuous assumptions but that hypothesis is interesting. He fills in a lot of data that is unknowable, is the biggest problem with the book's premise I think. Regardless, it's obvious violence has declined and he does make good points. But estimating data and then applying multipliers and shit to it to make a point looks pretty bad and he does that a lot. He also needed a better editor. But there has been a lot of interesting stuff |
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03-01-2017, 06:28 PM | #197 |
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chimps pick unfair fights as well, they patrol, they engage in genocide, fight for sexual partners, etc
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03-01-2017, 06:54 PM | #198 |
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Chimps are bad people
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03-01-2017, 07:10 PM | #199 |
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03-01-2017, 07:47 PM | #200 |
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I would if I had the money
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03-01-2017, 07:48 PM | #201 |
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Before I was cut off by my parents or I guess became too ashamed to take from them (cuz I was 23 when I started) I was full time. But my pride and fear of debt is getting in the way now I guess. Do you have anything to do but lay into me?
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03-01-2017, 07:50 PM | #202 |
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I am taking 5 courses over the summer but that's thousands of dollars to put up front. I'm using my student tax credit on that.
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03-01-2017, 07:53 PM | #203 |
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this is a real point of anxiety for me
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03-01-2017, 08:07 PM | #204 |
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fuck you poots
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03-01-2017, 08:29 PM | #205 |
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fucking college is expensive, plus living is expensive, i work a little, go full time, get a lot of grants etc and still take out almost the max loans
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03-15-2017, 08:21 PM | #206 |
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03-15-2017, 08:22 PM | #207 |
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we need one with the quote about alcohol being a harmless drug with no adverse effects
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03-15-2017, 08:30 PM | #208 |
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Students loans ain't no joke. I did college and a year of grad school for free (scholarships/grants/parents discount for being employees of schopl).
Then in one year of masters and another of phd i got up to 40,000 in debt. fuck. |
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03-15-2017, 08:47 PM | #209 |
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03-15-2017, 11:34 PM | #210 |
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