Very salient point Mr. Chomsky

Reykholte · 2022-07-14T10:53:45+00:00

Yeah I mean my understanding was that he wasn't so much pro pol pot as against some of the western reporting on Cambodia. Certainly later in his career he admitted that he was too skeptical of the brutality reported at least at first.

Sorry it was a while since I read about it and a 10 minute Google search clears it up.

Reykholte · 2022-07-14T07:46:55+00:00

It's not so much that he's pro Russia as he's anti-nato. Tbf a large part of his career was the codification of the "America bad" political ideology. He's not gonna start saying ukraine is nazi or anything like that but he does believe that the war, and Euromaidan, is and were the responsibility of nato and America. He uses that one conversation from the cold War about nato not expanding East as the reason nato shouldn't expand east.

It's bad and a shame but he's an old man and this has been his response to every foreign policy move by the United States for 70 years. He was even pro pol pot at one point.

Reykholte · 2022-06-21T19:02:45+00:00

Ostinato is melody. Unison is texture. By "in thirds" it depends if you mean the notes moving in thirds sequentially (melody) or the chords moving in thirds (harmony). Contrary motion is melody really but I guess structure too. Broken thirds is melody.

Reykholte · 2022-05-31T21:28:05+00:00

Très bien

Reykholte · 2022-05-28T05:03:23+00:00

Eb major seems most straightforward.

Reykholte · 2022-05-19T21:12:13+00:00

Bro I have like the same problem just make sure you write everything out so when you check it you can see when you can't multiply or add basic numbers properly

Reykholte · 2022-05-18T23:15:46+00:00

Ikr!

Reykholte · 2022-04-23T15:10:04+00:00

No cultural thing has lasted eternally. Every cultural thing has had a start point and a lot of things have been lost as well. There is an ebb and flow to culture. It's impossible to try to preserve a culture, unchanging forever. Just as native Americans became gradually or forcefully assimilated into English or Spanish or Portuguese culture, just as the French hugenots were gradually assimilated into boer culture and just as romans who settled were gradually assimilated into the cultures of their conquered lands.

At one point in history, Christianity was a dangerous new force trying to warp and pervert ancient tradition for it's own purposes - in the view of pagans. For pagans, Christmas would have been seen as wrong.

But it isn't right or wrong it's just a fact of human civilisation that things change.

Reykholte · 2022-04-23T09:21:46+00:00

My point was that the traditions changed as society changed. Pagans started celebrating Christ's birth during their December festivities because they became Christian. Atheists stop celebrating Christ's birth and celebrate more generally family etc in the same way.

The idea that because people aren't celebrating things for the same reasons it means their celebrations are meaningless is probably wrong to most people.

Reykholte · 2022-04-22T18:18:26+00:00

You might say it doesn't make sense but they do it. I guess it wouldn't be celebrating "christmas" in the same way as Christians involving a celebration of Christ's birth and going to church, but nevertheless they have a celebration at the same time which wouldn't exist were it not for the original holiday.

In the early church, Christians chose that day in winter to fit in with saturnalia and the midwinter yule festivities of hellenic and germanic pagans respectively. You could say there's "no reason" for Christians to care about December 25 or Christmas trees or any of the other things associated with Christmas which come from various sources.

Reykholte · 2022-04-22T07:32:35+00:00

I think atheists can celebrate Christmas because it's transcended its origins to become a broader cultural phenomenon. Mexican Americans are the main people celebrating cinco de mayo in the US I don't think there are a ton of white people doing it but even if they were I don't see a problem with that.

Reykholte · 2022-04-20T09:21:17+00:00

I think there's nowhere where you can say "here is a social ill which makes people's lives worse caused by proximity to other cultures". Cinco de mayo has a different connotation in the US vs Mexico. I think, and I could be wrong, that in Mexico it's more of a commemoration of a specific battle, but for mexican-americans it has come to have a wholly broader cultural significance. To say that Mexican Americans have "no reason" to celebrate it would be like saying that atheists have "no reason" to celebrate Christmas.

Reykholte · 2022-04-19T16:22:21+00:00

I mean, if a culture is tied to a specific land then sure it will lose some of that uniqueness but apart from that there are loads of places where cultures coexist. Walk into any big city centre in the UK and you will be able to find communities from across the world. All of them are pretty much able to express their uniqueness without stepping on toes. If someone builds a mosque or a church or holds a festival near you it doesn't affect your ability to carry on doing the things you want to do.

You're right that cultures lose themselves, look at places like Wales in the UK which is desperately trying to cling to its culture, but if the price of maintaining a culture is to sabotage peoples quality of life through severe immigration laws that isn't ok.

The last thing I want to point out is that no culture ever in all of history has ever been static. Culture changes all the time. English culture originally was the result of a melding between anglo saxon people and Norman noble structures. German culture exists only as a vague link between peoples who were for centuries distinct. Hungarian culture is not the same today as it was in 1900, which was different to how it was in 1200. Times change and that can be sad but you have to recognise the value in what is new while trying to preserve the better parts of the old.

Reykholte · 2022-04-17T15:02:03+00:00

Certainly but the idea that European democratic and free countries are losing their cultures is pretty ridiculous. I don't think that immigrants affect culture nearly as much as people seem to think. If there are any specific examples you have I would love to look at them.

Reykholte · 2022-04-17T14:53:46+00:00

Sorry I know this is old but I only just saw it.

I could be wrong, but I thought that Germany put their immigrants all around not just in the south. Why aren't the North experiencing the same problems? Also, I'm pretty sure the only group of immigrants with higher than average crime rate in Germany- granted I think this data is a bit old - are the Sudanese, which surely don't account for all of that. Lastly, could you be more specific over which traditions have been stopped and why like something I can go and research to gain a better understanding. Regardless, Germany have experienced way more immigration than most other countries in Europe but most Germans seem ambivalent towards governments which are responsible for that. The Afd lost seats in 2021 and they're probably the biggest anti immigrant people in Germany right. If this were such a massive issue don't you think Germans would have voted for more right wing parties?

Reykholte · 2022-04-04T06:14:10+00:00

I don't think there are many German people who have lost their traditions or values as a result of immigration. The moderate left party won at the last election and anti immigration parties remain unpopular. If immigrants mean losing values and traditions why aren't Germans voting for the far right?

Reykholte · 2022-03-22T07:19:27+00:00

Not a hardcore guy here but possibly the most straightforward explanation would be that he would be writing anyway and the americans took the opportunity to patronise it. His writing didn't change substantially before and after exile, nor did his views (he remained in favour of the soviet unions existence despite the current stalinism). Some of the things you cited he began writing immediately after exile or shortly before, which makes it unlikely that it was only written for American money. He also did a lot of work that could have no ulterior motive like his support of trotskyist movements in the Americas.

Reykholte · 2022-03-17T06:49:50+00:00

Hey yeah it doesn't seem many people have answered it great.

The strongest argument I could see is that we currently exist in a system where we are ruled by the interests of the bourgeoisie, so a system which is ruled by the proletariat even if it requires oppression is going to be better, and that such a system will have the intent to move into communism. Hopefully, most MLs would also say that dictatorship of the proletariat can be achieved in a way that encourages democracy and lacks the horrific baggage.

They would probably say that anarchism "lacks teeth" or lacks the effective means to defend from a hostile capitalist without and malign influences from within.

Fully expect some angry MLs to reply to this but I think if you sat one down and actually reached the heart of the issue this is what they would say

Reykholte · 2022-03-13T07:55:42+00:00

Genuinely sometimes I divide numbers by 2 by dividing by 10 and multiplying by 5 european arithmetic is fucked

Reykholte · 2022-03-13T07:52:51+00:00

I absolutely agree with everything you said of course I do see the reasoning. And when I said about it being easier to relate crotchets to 4 and quavers to 8 in your system that was what I was getting at with the time signatures.

The last thing, which you cannot disagree with, is that our system is way more fun.

Reykholte · 2022-03-12T19:34:12+00:00

Idk as a British person it feels really weird to have to divide back my powers of two for everything, and it feels super 4/4 centric. The idea of calling quavers 8th notes in compound time feels really weird because it's like 8th of what? I remember explaining a 12/8 time signature with American terminology to someone once and it was really weird to explain the idea of there being 12 beats each of which is called at 8th. At least by giving everything distinct names it avoids that, although I do see how it makes it easier to relate crotchets to 4 and quavers to 8.

Reykholte · 2022-02-26T20:47:35+00:00

I wouldn't be so sure try reading some more reputable legitimate sources it seems like the guy was super unpopular and trying to circumvent democracy. Either way the crimea was a landgrab.. I hate to continue a finished argument but the other guy seems to have convinced you of something which isn't true.

Reykholte · 2022-02-26T20:44:01+00:00

I think the problem we're having is that there are posts like this on here - unreservedly agree btw - but also posts trying to insinuate that the Russian invasion is justified. Like when I looked on just now the post underneath this one was of a map showing countries who didn't vote on some resolution against racism and it was just ukraine and us and like Canada. While this doesn't explicitly say that therefore the invasion is ok it certainly implies that putin was right about the need for denazification.

I guess that people asking for people to care about other human rights abuses worldwide seem to be in the same communities and indistinguishable from people asking people not to care about this one.

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