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>> ^HaricotVert:
Definitely check out his "Outliers" book if this interests you at all... there are even cooler things he discusses, such as the "lucky" success of the Beatles and Bill Gates.


Just finished this book a couple days ago. He explains this theory much better in writing than he does verbally. Really an amazing book.

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Transcendence (in some form) is the unrealized goal of all life. However, who says we aren't already an amalgamation of transcended beings behind one ego that is our human form?

In reply to this comment by westy:
why is it unsettling ? I don't care if black culture/skin is no longer practiced/disappears any more or less than if white culture skin color no longer existed / was practiced. just shove photographs and writings in a musiim so whatever can be learned from the past can be learned and move on.

Within the next 60 years i think its likely that people will distance themselves from there physical entity of flesh to some existent , maby we will be able to separate ourselves from our body , evan if we are still locked into our bodies i can see a large number of people exsperanceing alot through vertual reality where u interact fully with people in some invented world. its alredy happning now to some exstent with internet chat MMO,s only its just shit at the moment with exstremily limited interactivty and sences.

once we can exist outside of our born bodies race prejudice will seem Evan more absurd.

>> ^djhenyo:
I told you to change the title. No upvote until it is so. Also just have to add that I hate the way this guest looks. Can't tell if he is white or black or indian or anything. Way to have an identity ya gay bitch.


Can someone unban djhenyo please? I want to downvote him too!

>> ^enoch:
>> ^calculadoru:
Interesting theory, but I wonder why he didn't mention the Japanese. Their language and society are _exactly_ like he described, and yet they have far fewer crashes.

go ahead and mistake a japanese person for a Korean and see what happens.
go ahead..i dare ya..
I don't think he's suggesting the Japanese and Koreans are interchangeable, I think he's suggesting that their culture and language share common traits, especially with respect to the salient points of Prof. Gladwell's theory here.

I read a lot of forums after Outliers came out, and it was from a pilot who was knowledgeable about the situation, and pointed out several very basic errors Gladwell made in describing the crash. Things like Gladwell claiming pilots would fly right into the beacon in question, when VOR beacons are never, you know, actually on a runway.

He didn't disagree necessarily with Gladwell's overall premise, but with the factual mistakes that he made in describing the accident, it called into question Gladwell's veracity.

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Have you got a link to that analysis? I'd like to read it too.

In reply to this comment by ShakaUVM:
It's an interesting argument, but I read an analysis of Outliers which showed that Gladwell completely botched the story of the Korean Airlines flight.

So I don't trust anything he says on the topic.

Have you got a link to that analysis? I'd like to read it too.

In reply to this comment by ShakaUVM:
It's an interesting argument, but I read an analysis of Outliers which showed that Gladwell completely botched the story of the Korean Airlines flight.

So I don't trust anything he says on the topic.

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>> ^calculadoru:
Interesting theory, but I wonder why he didn't mention the Japanese. Their language and society are _exactly_ like he described, and yet they have far fewer crashes.


go ahead and mistake a japanese person for a Korean and see what happens.
go ahead..i dare ya..
just dont be surprised if im walking very briskly in the other direction.
same with mistaking a columbian for a mexican,or belgium with french.
cultural distinctions carry with them a certain pride and this video does not indicate any racism but rather a static social order than in the case of flying a plane can do more damage than good.

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>> ^dag
I was thinking Sideshow Bob.
A bit of Phil Specter as well.


It's William Fichtner doing Art Garfunkel.

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>> ^EndAll:
>> ^dag:
Fascinating. books. I wish I could stop seeing him as CarrotTop.

I was thinking Sideshow Bob..


A bit of Phil Specter as well.

>> ^djhenyo:
I told you to change the title. No upvote until it is so. Also just have to add that I hate the way this guest looks. Can't tell if he is white or black or indian or anything. Way to have an identity ya gay bitch.

Ban please...

>> ^westy:
...i think its fantastic that cultures die out , so long as we preserve A memory of that culture and lern the aspects of it that were actualy good ( which normaly hapens naturaly anny way) then its fantastic that an old culture dies out , I mean if only shitty ideas like religion would hurry up and die out. the memory of a culture should live on for ever and so long as a better culture exists the old practice is welcome to die a horable death


I gathered as much (that you're a cultural nihilist), however it is still unsettling to see it black on white.