Hi. If this thread could be kept relatively strict with posts containing a listing of all that you have read, are in the process of reading, and wish to read, and can be used as a kind of check list with brief and precise commentary allowed after each text mentioned but extensie discussion can be […]
Written by kFoyauextlH
I thought it might be useful to have a thread where people can describe a philosophy to see what it might be called if such already exists. This is mainly because sometimes there are so many names to things and genres and philosophers even in other fields that it can be hard to remember or […]
Written by atreestump
In many parts of the world, capitalism now seems unchallenged as the dominant culture. It hasn’t always been like this. For most of its history, capitalism struggled to survive, and to spread and grow. Looking back, it’s remarkable how devastatingly successful it has been. No other culture has transformed the world so dramatically in just […]
Written by atreestump
Over the last five threads we have looked at some key features of capitalist economic systems, including : markets; commodification and enclosure; private property; the role of the state; the profit motive; work. We have also touched on the very idea of an economic system, of a separate realm of human life called ‘the economy’. […]
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How credit crunched It started with the US housing bubble, and those infamous ‘sub-prime’ mortgages. Between 1996 and 2006 US house prices went up 60% more than inflation. The great real estate fantasy: if you can get on the ladder, you can just sit and watch the price of your property soar away. Money for […]
Written by kFoyauextlH
Please list and enumerate in detail all your skills and abilities and degrees to which you are willing to create and use them and be of service to yourself and me potentially, I would appreciate it. Whatever you don’t know and want to and feel you are capable of knowing and performing please acquire as […]
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Off the starry shores of a black liquid ocean is the base of the Temple of Mant. Inside you may find me to consult, covered in hair and gigantic in a place where coldness is a dimension of emotion which does not mean unemotionality but the same sort of thing as physical coldness. It acts […]
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Pretend that I am vastly capable when it comes to answering general sorts of questions and feel free to ask me as many as you would like one at a time. Pretend I am a strange sort of man-like creature that might just have certain strange and curious things to say which at the very […]
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Tell me how he said it before and you can show me and when I seem to say another thing that it has been revealed before and I will say that the mind of God is small if it can not speak anything new yet in truth it speaks a thing only ever once and […]