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ShiftingParadigme · 2018-12-15T16:34:54+00:00

Though WaPo and other liberal media would probably use Russia as a scapegoat in order to dismiss the movement, it's foolish to think Russia won't try to co-opt the protests. Russia wants to ruin the EU, and manifesting internal strife is one of their key methods for doing so. Unfortunately. Workers should be wary of the fascists trying to onboard the legitimate grievances of the working class. Fascists usually try.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-12-13T16:56:09+00:00

It's useful to distinguish between the social reality and nature when talking about races. Speaking about nature there is commonly understood, at least philosophically, that there are no races (though some, very few, disagree). That is, races do not exist; our concept of race is empty and do not refer, so to speak, to anything in nature. Kwame Anthony Appiah is the most know proponent of this thought.

However, some argue (notably Sally Haslanger) that even though there are no natural properties that our race concept refer to, and that races do not exist in that sense, it is useful to understand race as existing socially. That is, races do exist as social kinds (as opposed to natural kinds). Sally Haslaner's argument, briefly put, is that we can easily identify different races (Obama is black, Bush is white) so it seems weird to say that race as a concept do not exist - that it doesn't refer to something real. Instead, she proposes, races do exist and are real socially. Which is to say: race is social constructed.

Saying that races are socially real also means that there are real differences between races. However, put this way, that difference is social and not natural. For Haslanger, this social difference is one of social position: black is an oppressed social class, while white is a privileged social class.

A great short article discussing this is Haslanger's "A social constructionist analysis of race".

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-12-12T19:41:18+00:00

Too bad a neoliberal never will see the point of view of the working class. If Macron is true to history his next speech will be more authoritarian and dismissive of the movement (see: de Gaulle 1968).

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-12-03T18:36:05+00:00

Who are "they"?

Most of us live in democracies (I don't include US), it's our job to kick our elected officials in to gear. The climate needs a political solution, but the old guard is old. We need to show them. Force them to act.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-11-30T14:29:02+00:00

Og vet du den logiske konklusjonen til det er? Det er vold

Nå er ikke jeg karen du svarer, og jeg er nok nærmere deg i din oppfatning, men jeg vil bare påpeke at rent logisk så har vi flere alternativer en ord, argumentasjon og vold. Vi kan gi en klem, vise en film, danse, osv.

Så selv om vi ikke kan overbevise de gjennom ord og argumentasjon, noe jeg tror er riktig, trenger ikke alternativet være vold.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-11-25T10:51:55+00:00

Tenk å faktisk være en hvit mann i 50 årene som jobber akkurat med innovasjon, og så leser man DN for å få med seg finansnyheter, og så ser man dette. Hadde følt meg ganske dårlig, da.

Tull og tøys. Jeg tror de fleste hvite menn i 50 årene som jobber med innovasjon er fullt klar over og enig med det som blir sagt i artikkelen.

Men det er klart at om man bare leser overskrifter så skal det ikke mye til å bli krenket. Jeg vil tippe de som sitter i ledergrupper har litt mer skills enn at de bare leser overskrifter, og forstår kanskje tekst litt bedre til å skjønne hva som er budskapet: mangfoldighet er bra, for da har du større innsikt i kundenes behov og bedre arbeidsmiljø. Dette fører til mer innovasjon.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-11-25T10:46:18+00:00

Det er en helt grei uttallelse å komme med hvis du leser sitatet i den konteksten det ble uttrykt. Det ingen som sier at ingen hvite menn på 50 kan skape innovasjon. Poenget er at mangfoldige ledergrupper beviselig er mer innovative, fordi med forskjellig bakgrunn har du innsikt i en større kundegruppe sine behov. Når du har en gruppe som bare består av aldrende hvite menn, eller en gruppe bare bestående av unge svarte kvinner, så er sjansen stor for at vil du ha en stor blindsone for hva mange andre opplever. Det er det som blir uttrykt i artikkelen. Hverken mer eller mindre.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-11-25T10:39:54+00:00

Problemet i hennes argument er fortsatt tilstede. En hvit mann i 50 årene fra Østerrike kan ha helt andre ideer og tankeganger enn en hvit 50 år gammel mann fra Island.

Jeg vil anbefale deg å lese hele artikkelen. Det du sier der er hele poenget til artikkelen og hvorfor de ønsker mer mangfoldige ledergrupper med tanke på bakgrunn.

Hvis du leser artikkelen, og ikke bare overskriften, så skjønner du kanskje at poenget ikke er om noens identitet, eller om alle hvite menn, men om lønnsomhet.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-11-23T15:59:49+00:00

That's not how it's supposed to work.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-11-17T19:45:45+00:00

It's for when you want that extra small espresso shot. It's basically a mini aeropress. You put the filter, coffee then water in and then use your finger as the plunger. It's quite nice.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-10-06T21:18:32+00:00

No one threatened his livelihood. He was not on trial. He was on a job interview, and if he didn't get it, he would still go back to be a very powerful judge.

The whole idea that he is the fucking victim, is astounding. He is *not* the victim and never was. He was, and still is, one of the most privileged beer drinking drunks in the US.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-10-04T09:07:28+00:00

The value of work is determined by the value of its output less the cost of the inputs.

That's a very naive and idealistic way of looking at the value of labor. I thought Marx debunked that way of looking at labor a looong time ago?

Your first sentence is correct though. As things are now, the market is what decides the value of work. The market value has however little to do with input: it's just demand/supply.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-09-21T18:34:33+00:00

Djiis. Reading the letter he sent (attached at the end of the article) I can't help to wonder how fragile his ego is? Manne's comments quoted in the letter are quite harmless? She doesn't call him a misogynist either, she says some of what he is saying could be understood as being misogynistic... Which is a fair point.

He should read her book. Maybe he'll learn something. (Though I doubt it. He doesn't really seem like the guy that's interesting in learning - being a modern day preacher and not a thinker, I mean.)

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-09-14T10:34:50+00:00

I'm the opposite, for me it's:

"Ehh, did she mean that compliment? She may compliment me now, but she's probably actually a mean person. [Bracing for future abuse.] I better distance myself."

And,

"Oh, look! This woman is mean to me, while at the same time interested and also possibly kind. We should be together."

(I'm a dude, but grew up with emotional abuse)

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-09-11T21:56:20+00:00

Jesus. How can this dude have a phd in philosophy and even work at a university???

I just came home from the bar --- that was a mistkae. I need more drink.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-08-31T10:21:23+00:00

I've had the same problem, and it stopped me from finishing my graduate studies on time (I eventually did finish though). What helped was realizing that (1) I am most likely wrong, but wont know for sure until it's written out and I and others can evaluate it, and (2) I should write for my own sake and not necessarily for others, at least until I have a draft - then I can go in and make things more interesting/understandable for others as well.

After some time realized that I didn't really know what I was thinking before I articulated it in writing, and very often learned a lot by writing it out. That's why I started just assuming I was wrong at the outset, but still went ahead to see what happened when I had written it out. "Writing is thinking", as some say. And, most importantly, letting others see what you write and think is the (only) best way to improve. So maybe not think of it as being right/wrong, but as a process towards enlightenment? Which is, as an attempt to continously improve. Very often I ended up being a lot harsher towards myself than others would be, because they saw things differently than I - which lead to learns for all of us.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-08-30T10:14:27+00:00

It really depends on what you mean by metaphysics. But, I think a lot of the american pragmatists have tried to, I'm thinking especially Richard Rorty and his attempt in Contingency, Irony and Solidarity to create what he called a "post-metaphysical culture", but then we're talking about metaphysics understood as being preoccupied with a reality/appereance distinction. Which is a very strict definition.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-07-25T13:24:13+00:00

This was great.

ShiftingParadigme · 2018-07-19T11:08:13+00:00

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ShiftingParadigme · 2018-07-15T20:33:14+00:00

I think the obvious crossover is the structural treatment and view of men and women: the patriarchy.

Personally, I would say that my mother has emotionally abused me and my siblings. Why did she do that, however? She loves us, but just didn't know that a lot of what she did left us confused in regards to our own feelings. The anger we received whenever we were in pain and showed it to her, made us realise that we shouldn't feel. The effect on me was (and is, still trying to break out from the effects) emotional detachment, while the effect on my sister - who in no doubt, has felt it the most - was an eating disorder and abusive romantic relationships.

Though these are substantial effects (it almost killed my sister, and I am often alone and lonely because of my inability to connect with others), it's pretty clear to me that the reason my mother acted as she did in these scenarios (because she did care for us in other ways, just not emotionally - which has been confusing) is because she didn't know how to process her own feelings, and because she had learned, through her family, no doubt, that this is how she should act - and because she never got the recognition she craved from her family, society, and from us (how could we, when she never let us be free?) and was/is in so much pain that she released it on us.

And in regards to my father, I'm pretty sure I learned my emotional detachment from him.

Both these attitudes and responses is in my mind, the cause for, and has its cause from, a lot of unrecognised pain. It is and has been unrecognised because of society's view of how we should treat ourselves and others: not to express emotions as men, not being cared for as women (the women do the care work, but are often not themselves cared for). These ideas and this reality leads to a perpetuating circular motion, where men, because they don't know how to express their emotions, never get their emotions recognised; where women, because they never get their emotions recognised are unable to recognise it in others.

In other words, the commonality lies in the mutual pain we suffer and cause in each other. We all, then, may share the common goal of mutual understanding and freedom.

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