Comments by "Joe Madden" (@joemadden4160) on "Big Think" channel.

  1. Jesus, where does one start with this kind of mindless babble. Without the individual you have nothing. Without the individual thought you have nothing. Though it may be true that to bring an idea to fruition an individual will need aids to assist him in his endeavours, it is the individual that creates, never the group. How many people did Van Gogh have to help him paint his portraits or landscapes or...How many people helped Shakespeare write his plays? Was it a group collective that created Da Vinci's creations?
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  2. Whilst visiting Japan I stopped by a shrine before breakfast and sitting around this city shrine in Kobe were about 30 crows. Big crows. Think The Birds. They felt no fear and they were thinking the entire time I was there. Thinking how can we carry this guy off...or how can we do the deed and make it look like an accident. True story.
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  3. Agreed, although what constitutes harrassment is often not something so easily qualifiable or quantifiable. One must remember that rules and laws are merely abstractions and as such are often ignored (as you stated) or used unjustifiably harshly. In other words, they are completely fluid and are changed by those in power dependent on who they view as the villian and so forth.
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  4. Everything I needed to know about humanity and its INHERENT sefishness I learned from Milgram. Witness the last 4 years. People are NOT good, in spite of what you've been told. Just primates who mastered language.
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  5. Anti-Trump ad masquerading as a treatise about "class". Too funny. The vast majority of those propping up Hitler were the university professors you fucking dolt. How do these morons get their doctorates? The overclasses create the fucking genocides and wars to make their money. Their "looseness" allows them to mass murder with impunity or are we not going to talk about that? What do you think the Vietnam Experiment was? It gave birth to the 21st century and now all "classes" have benefited from it. This is one of the most embarrassing Big Thinks ever. Also not mentioned; EVERYBODY plays fast and easy with the rules. EVERYBODY. Why? Ethics, human laws and morals are abstractions. They don't mean anything, at all. Never have and never will or maybe you just don't read enough history...or actually look at the universe.
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  6. It may seem utilitarian to flick the track switch, but allowing the 5 to die and saving the 1 is actually more utilitarian in that there are now 5 less people to tend to, 5 less people who could possibly add more people to the planet, 5 less polluting people, 5 people that leave more food for the remaining population, etc. 5 less psychopaths perhaps? In one view, letting 5 die is the optimal choice. Look at it this way. We create vaccines. Vaccines don't exist in nature, but natural immunity does. Why would one set out to provide a curative for a part of nature? Why would one create something that allows the number of a societal population to keep growing, polluting, creating conflict, outstriping resources, etc. It's like the rat experiments, only replace rats with humans. It may seem utilitarian, but it really isn't. It's actually completely destructive.
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  7.  @Debonair.Aristocrat  Bad. Bad. Bad.😛
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  8. You said it Doc:)
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  9. Anyone involved in any religion who is offended to point of murder when they feel an icon has been vilified had zero faith to begin with. It's that simple.
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  10. Wrong Richard. We as a supposed civilized society allow for slavery every day in modern times. What would you call those building computers for us in China? Suicide netting...why? Corvee labor, or pittance slavery. Clothing in Bangladesh or India? Pittance slavery. We are all slave owners Richard. Appreciate your work but...wrong about civilized people not utilizing slaves.
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  11. Fantastic.
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  12. I wrote a paper in university entitled The S(hell) Game. I also included political ideology in my thesis, like Maoism and Leninism, as well as religion. There is no difference between the con and the religious/political leaders, although one is far less likely to die after losing at three card monte.
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  13. So refreshing. I've always said why do people have to wait for a government to say something is ok? When one thinks about, most laws are based primarily on fiction(s) and yet we're are still expected to follow them. There needs to be a major rethink on what we consider important regarding the way we interact with one another and what rules(not "laws") should/shouldn't be followed. Seems to me common decency should be the rule.
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  14. The Earth will soon correct itself once again and humanity will be back in its NATURAL cave where its always really belonged. Humanity is the question to an answer that never had to be asked.
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  15. Abstraction. Morality, ethics, human law, religion...abstraction. No one cares about that. At all, Dr. Snyder. We live in a social/economic Darwinian universe in which it's me or them. In the words of Dr. Pinker, the abstraction known as "society" goes out the window when ones own survival is dependent on individual action.
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  16. So...according to your metric, the poor are to blame for the current standing POTUS because they are uneducated? Questions- Are the poor responsible for the rise of Hitler? Or the rise of Stalin? Or the rise of Mao? Or for Kennedy bringing us to the edge of WW3? Or for the Manhattan Project? Or for the destruction of our environment? Education has nothing to do with intelligence or common sense. At all. If one wishes to see how mass murder has occurred on a grand scale on this planet, best to look to the universities first.
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  17. Great historian and a polyglot to boot. Highly recommend Dr. Snyder's books.
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