Comments by "" (@HigherPlanes) on "Lex Clips"
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Every form of government tends to parish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocricy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle within which power is confined. Oligarchy ruins itself by the incautious scramble for immediate wealth. In either case, the end is revolution. When revolution comes it may seem to arise from little causes and petty whims. But though it may spring from slight occasions, it is the precipitate result of grave and accumulated wrongs.
When a body is weakened by neglected ills, the nearest exposure may bring serious disease. Then democracy comes, the poor overcome their opponents, slaughtering some and banishing the rest, and give to the people an equal share of freedom and power. But even democracy ruins itself by excess... of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy. This is at first glance a delightful arrangement. It becomes disastrous because the people are not properly equipped by education to select the best rulers and the wisest courses.
As to the people, they have no understanding, and repeat what their rulers are pleased to tell them. To get a doctrine accepted or rejected it is only necessary to have it praised or ridiculed in a popular play. Mob rule is a rough sea for the ship of state to ride, every wind of oratory stirs up the water and deflects the course. The upshot of such a democracy is tyranny or autocracy. The crowd so loves flattery, it is so hungry for honey, that at last the wiliest and most unscrupulous flatterer, calling himself the protector of the people, rises to supreme power. Consider the history of Rome. -Plato, The Republic
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@davidatkinson5858 Yeah, maybe it did increase brain size, but I personally doubt that was the case. Think about modern apes, while they do eat meat on occasion, their main diet is fruit based...three bananas equals roughly to about 300 calories, which btw is more than enough to fuel a modern human brain for a day.
This is a an assumption, but I take it there there was plenty of fruit available 2 million years ago in the lush African rainforest. But apes don't just eat three bananas, they forage all day long...so I don't know the numbers, but I'm sure they're getting in excess of 1,000 calories a day. A cooked steak gives you about 600 calories on average. So you see where I'm going here? The caloric intake from fruit/greens/raw meat vs cooked meats isn't vast enough to account for the increase in brain size, keeping in mind how many calories a modern brain is required to function effectively.
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2:36...in ancient Hindu Philosophy what Sheldon is talking about here is known as Dharma - That which supports, The roots of a tree, that which supports from within, The essence of a thing, it's virtue, that which makes it what it is. It can be explained with an ancient tale. A Sage seated beside the Ganges, notices a scorpion had fallen into the water, he reaches down to rescue it, only to be stung. Sometime later he looks down and sees the scorpion thrashing about in the water again, once more he reaches down to rescue it and once more he is stung. A bystander observing all this explains, Holy one, why do you keep doing that, don't you see that the wretched creature will only sting you in return? "Of course", the Sage replied. "It is the Dharma of a scorpion to sting, but it is the dharma of a human being to save. In a bigger sense, Dharma means the essential order of things, an integrity of harmony in the universe, rightness, justice, goodness, purpose.
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