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TEDX Rupert Sheldrake The Science Delusion

chingalera says...

I am curious as to why this particular TEDtalk has not garnered more outraged discussion considering the recent hem-haw over a user's comments regarding the notion of mind-over-matter in issues of chronic physical or mental disease.
(http://videosift.com/video/Going-to-the-Doctor-in-America)

Newsflash: Satisfactory explanations just in, more to come with additional, epiphanous information.

One YT user today suggested the following:
"@2:51 The real reason that this was banned: the audience is laughing. And the joke is - no not on science - in this case the joke is on Daniel Dennett = one of the 'anonymous' jurors. He seems to have neither a sense of humour, nor a sportsman attitude, nor the wit to stand his ground on his own two feet."

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Lt. Daniels calmly sticks it to Burrell (Wire Season 1 ep12)

Yogi says...

Lt. Daniels was great in this, but he also looks like a fucking alien.

Also I never understood this too much, if a guy who works for you is fucking with you, and you're already dirty as hell just fucking kill him. I think people in these shows talk too dramatically but don't kill enough, I want to see some guy just go insane and blow away half the fucking force and get away with it because it's fiction dammit!

Also the Wire is the greatest thing ever on television...only because M*A*S*H went on too long though.

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Bradley Manning goes to trial

enoch says...

@lantern53
navy here.

and i agree.actions have consequences.
manning knew that as did daniel ellisberg and a litany of other people who revealed classified information but they did it anyways because they felt the truth should be known.
that the truth was more important than their own safety and security.

this is why i use the term "courage".
to act on ones own sense of morality and conscience KNOWING the full weight of an entire government will be pressing down on you when it all comes out.

the days of woodward and bernstein are gone i think.i could be wrong but i read the governments reaction as a strong signal to those who would seek to undermine its absolute authority.
see:the godfather principle

reporters being wiretapped and emails and phone records confiscated.
whistleblower status has been denied more than any other time in americas history.
its an old tactic.
create a climate of fear to intimidate anyone who challenges the narrative.

we shall see where this goes because i feel it will be a strong indicator of things to come.
interesting times my friend.

as for social programs.
i guess i would rather see my taxes go to infrastructure and the old lady down the street rather than bail out corrupt bankers and bomb brown people in a distant country.

but empire is expensive and we need those bombs.
or so they say.
i tend to disagree.

anyways.thanks for replying my friend.

Rape Joke Debate

Yogi says...

Yeah I agree with Lindy on most everything, except her citations. I understand that there exists a "Trigger" that is something that's real. However there is no scientific evidence that jokes perpetuate a culture of rape. I've heard about Rape Culture a lot and I can understand where the ideas come from, like if you constantly hear only bad things about the black community what will you assume when you encounter a black person. That stuff is all very interesting and deserves to be studied, but it's not set in stone, there's simply not enough evidence for it and proper education can over come it.

I've been raised by TV, I love the show Cops when I was a kid, what I saw was violent black people. When I was conscious enough to actually THINK though I didn't come down on the side that black people are inherently violent and are responsible for their own plight. I looked at the facts, what causes the ghettos in America and what we are doing to help people take control of their lives. Basically we've been kicking them in the face since they tried to get their freedom, we've made being black a crime and have incarcerated them in large outdoor prisons.

So I agree that these things like Rape Culture have validity, what Lindy's point was is that they're facts and unimpeachable facts. I don't agree, but I certainly am ok with her calling Daniel Tosh a fucking dick for telling just a really ignorant and stupid joke.

So what I like about this debate more than anything is that it happened. That this is something people can watch and talk about on their own, and discuss with other people. It takes a lot of hard work to build up a mental defense against the onslaught of bullshit we all face everyday, you can more easily do it while commiserating with other people.

I agree with you whole heartedly, Louis CK has thought very long and hard about a lot of things and he's responsible. Daniel Tosh was on stage at a club, relatively young comic who got shitty with a girl and had a very stupid reaction. A lot of people went after him and a lot of others defended him, but it wasn't smart it was a yelling match back and forth which doesn't help anything. This conversation helped everybody on videosift because we're both soo smart bareboards.

bareboards2 said:

@Yogi -- GREAT POST about freedom of speech.

Lindy agrees with you, too. She said so repeatedly. This isn't about censorship. It is about an atmosphere of violence towards women in our society that is considered acceptable, and how these "jokes" can perpetuate it. The power of language -- she even says that -- we don't agree on the power of language, she tells Norton.

As for loving Louis CK -- what I said was I have never heard him say anything that wasn't searingly honest and respectful. When he does a bit on rape, it is worlds apart from Tosh calling on men in a comedy club to rape a woman present in the room. I can't remember the bit(s) Louis has told, but I know that I have heard them and been admiring of his brilliance in tackling a difficult subject. I also do have a sense memory of "whoa, dude! that is going to piss some people off!"

Louis CK is not for everyone. And not everyone fully understands the nuance of his work (I think -- that sounds self aggrandizing, but I do believe it is true.)

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