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You seem to have cherry-picked what you wanted to hear out of my comments Isaac Send a noteboard - 22/08/2011 01:07:10 AM
You want to see nothing but abuse by the corporations and their 'western pawns' so you find it and see it and ignore the rest where it contradicts your ideology. You spin my remarks to make it sound like I was implying the west and capitalist interests are pristine clean when I've made it clear on numerous occasions and in that most recent post that I merely view them as a lighter shade of gray in comparison to most of the existing powers that be in those places. You even managed to twist my remarks to make it sound like I was implying the people in those places were somehow inferior.

It's like you're so attached to your worldview that you absolutely refuse to read anything that might show you a contradiction. You ignore all numbers, you object to the claim that standard of living in many of those places has risen even though all data says it has, even the HD index you previously used to cite to show the glories of socialist Europe. How can you claim that technology has not helped humankind? and that's what you're doing though I'm sure you'd deny it, you just cover it in thin aspersions to capitalism. Well a centralized egalitarian society would do the same things, move it's assets to where they can do the most good, bypass the $50 hammer in favor of the functional equally $5 one. You despise the primary method for improvement so you attempt to deny the improvement has taken place. In a world of 6 billion people you invariably seize on the always present and numerous bad things over the good to reinforce your beliefs. You could look at some place and pick out the mineshaft for blood diamonds and look right past the hub of a center-pivot irrigation system because you don't want to see anything that will screw up your comfortable millenarian outlook on life and it would distract you from a good rant about corporate corruption and campaign donations.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein

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You make a fair point - 19/08/2011 11:22:53 AM 448 Views
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Re: You make a fair point - 19/08/2011 02:10:43 PM 423 Views
It's the other other white meat. - 19/08/2011 07:13:19 PM 477 Views
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I've seen a lot of mainstream biologists suggest human evolution may be mostly mental now. - 21/08/2011 11:32:48 AM 570 Views
Neither of us are biologists though and it's not really relveant anyway - 21/08/2011 01:21:06 PM 517 Views
I'm not ignoring it, just wondering why over half the planet ignores it and lives in misery. - 21/08/2011 01:55:53 PM 525 Views
If you have occassion to spend time in those places you'll know why - 21/08/2011 02:38:44 PM 457 Views
How does literal mud huts as the norm respresent living standards rising "a lot". - 22/08/2011 12:29:35 AM 576 Views
You seem to have cherry-picked what you wanted to hear out of my comments - 22/08/2011 01:07:10 AM 348 Views
"It's a stability thing, not a Western greed thing" seemed to encapsulate your comments. - 22/08/2011 03:10:17 PM 485 Views
Only if you really cherry pick them - 23/08/2011 02:48:08 AM 497 Views
This seems to have descended into an insoluble partisan debate. - 23/08/2011 07:43:07 PM 559 Views
You're the one who dragged it to that - 23/08/2011 08:10:03 PM 474 Views
Did I? - 25/08/2011 10:18:29 PM 465 Views
*rudely butts in* - 23/08/2011 04:38:33 AM 540 Views
we should abdon the myth of the evolutionary ladder - 20/08/2011 11:49:35 PM 391 Views
Well, for this context I think the use is okay - 21/08/2011 11:59:19 AM 467 Views
yes I was just jumping into the middle of the discussion. - 22/08/2011 03:03:49 PM 428 Views
and we wonder why so many people ignore "scientist" - 19/08/2011 01:17:38 PM 522 Views
Think it's better to ignore "reporters on a slow news day," to be honest *NM* - 19/08/2011 02:38:23 PM 192 Views
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It's a an amusing disconnect to watch. - 20/08/2011 12:25:00 AM 478 Views
Naturally. - 19/08/2011 08:36:28 PM 565 Views
So, basically, we're the poor white trash of the universe. - 19/08/2011 07:06:23 PM 523 Views

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