The weeks just keep flying by, don't they? It's time for another Week in Review, and this time, we actually have a few interesting things to review. Microsoft is going on the full assault against Apple and Linux on netbooks, Canonical retaliates, the IBM-Sun deal is still the talk of the week, and we did a podcast. This week's My Take isn't a happy one, but it is an important one.
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Member since:2005-07-06
When I read his post it sounded like the dredging out of the old Psychohistory as the basis for why some people act the way they do - specifically he sounded as though he was raising issues pertaining to Psychogenic modes and the conflict between two modes meeting.
Just a side note, I'm neither a materialist or discursive constructionist when it comes to issues of social construction - I find that both take things to the logical extreme and ignore the fact that humans aren't just a matter of cause and effect, black and white, and the idea of one basic premise can be extrapolated to all situations within social construction. Humans are a mixture of rational and irrational so the expectations of finding a perfect theory that encompasses it all is ultimately an exercise in futility.
Edited 2009-04-13 00:16 UTC
Member since:2006-03-15
Of course from MY viewpoint I was hoping for "insightful".
Just recently I had chanced across "The Great Somali Welfare Hunt", which for conciseness is far superior to "The Camp of the Saints". The Game-Theory-Speak was intended to maybe teach a new word or two, years of programming have convinced me that the "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis" is justa fact, the words/memes you have available really alter perception. Anyway if you have a MORE concise disaster story on how intentional-population-explosion subcultures will deliberately game any Welfare-state, I would really appreciate knowing about it.
To my mind, the Central Principle of any Welfare State is that folks MUST be ASHAMED of being on welfare - once you've got a subculture which thinks of the system as simply a resource to be SHAMELESSLY exploited, that State is Toast. Specifically, Arizona is Toast and I Live Here, it's cautionary to note that moving to Maine would not help.
Edited 2009-04-15 15:08 UTC
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2005-12-31
Sometimes I wish there was a mod-down for "Confusing".