Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "PragerU" channel.

I like big women, and tall skinny women, and .... Women and men have a wide range to what appeals to them. Your statement about behavior, I agree with, but not about attractive physical dimensions, which varies wildly with individuals. I'm trouble by a new study that says women spend more time and money on make-up now then did their mothers and grandmothers, and it turns out it is not for sexual signaling to the opposite sex, but it is a dominance signal to other women. What's that about?
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I believe Orwell was speaking of the Power of Agency, Free Will, which you had to give up in order to gain the security of the state from the enemy. This is regardless of political, social, or religious framework, all of which use the carrot of security against a perceived enemy to coerce you to hand over your free will. The humans in 1984 are miserable because they have sold their free will, their Power of Agency, to the State.
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Yes, the reporters have sold their free will to a stated and dogmatic collective ideology. They no longer have to think, they no longer have the power of agency to do so, they gave it up.
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Truth has become the enemy to both you and the Marxists. Ben Franklin did not only read Jefferson's prose, he edited it, something you have conveniently left out. Lying by omission is evil. Franklin made an essential edit, one that resonates down through history more than any other phrase in the document: "the last three words of Jefferson’s phrase ‘We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable’ which Franklin changed to: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident." Where do I go, what do I do, to find an honorable truth in this world when all sides dishonor facts, assemble them into faithless truths, and unsustainable beliefs? When debate is no longer possible, all that is left is violence.
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@firetarrasque4667 Sorry, was speaking of a search for "Civic" truth and belief, not a religious one. Thank you anyway.
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@MtlCstr There are conflicting studies, but here's the one I am citing: https://community.cengage.com/t5/Psychology-Blog/The-Psychology-Behind-Gender-and-Makeup/ba-p/13241
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@JW20236 Here's the study: https://community.cengage.com/t5/Psychology-Blog/The-Psychology-Behind-Gender-and-Makeup/ba-p/13241
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@OneOuttaOne "Their Punishment G‑d decided to destroy their arrogance by destroying their ability to understand one another. He, therefore, confused the people by splitting them up into seventy different nations and tribes, each with a language of its own, (hence the name Babel, meaning “confusion”)." https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/246611/jewish/The-Tower-Of-Babel.htm
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@OneOuttaOne The article was produced by a religious organization which is authoritative, Chabad.org. I view scripture from a historical and evolutionary perspective, not a religious one. It's more important to me how humans have interpreted the story of Babel down thru the centuries, and what the context was at each interpretation. Often the "assumptions" are as telling as the story itself. 4,000 years may seem like a long time, but it is only about 50 people ago. 50 x 80 years is 4,000. Not much has really changed in human behavior over that time. I think it is safe to make the assumption on how they lived, and how they thought. Babel is an excellent metaphor describing the challenges of diversity in a population. Read Roman and Byzantine history, too, and you will find similar challenges. Borders are essential to all living beings. Your skin is a border, it allows good things in, and bad things out. The cells in our body have membranes that act as borders, and do the same thing, let the good in, and the bad out. If they fail to recognize the bad, and let them in, they die, and so do we. Nations require smart, functioning borders, or they die, too.
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Oceania was created as the result of an anti-Capitalist revolution, and 85% of Oceania's population is Prole, "Proletariat". The nations of 1984 all act in the same way, using fear of the A-Bomb to coerce the majority into giving up the Power of Agency in exchange for a perceived safety from an external enemy. All three nations of 1984 use the same tactic, regardless of their political framework. Sorry, guys, don't think you got that part. Check out Christopher Hitchens on the subject.
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