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Originally Posted by finnbow
To demonstrate to you and Whell and any other Trump cultists the vile, malignant nature of Trump. Whell is completely blind to it. Are you?
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Hmm. It's the demonstration -- the acting out of philosophical differences -- that I struggle with. Demonstration is noisy. I am more of a laborious and hands on kind of guy. My goal is maintaining beautiful things. When it comes to guns I want to maintain the comradery of their manufacture and maintenance so that their users can hit their targets. Similarly when it comes to persuasion I want to maintain a first amendment goal of truth as a target. In the bullseye of that contrast is a notion that profiting by persuading people to shoot each other is OK. That thinking harkens back to the 20th century when abundance theory and Rhode Scholarships came on the scene.
The fallacy was that money is an acceptable substitute for truth. Money is not a substitute for truth. It never has been. The word "capitalism" started out as a derogatory term. So did nerd, and geek, and quant. Those are all mathematical terms and end up at the average. Who wants to maintain the average? No one. What we want to maintain is something that looks and feels like small town living with occasional day trips between them to experience delicate contrasts with our neighbors. But no. The math has split our society into worrying about shades and shooting each other because we are tired of being measured and persuaded to turn this way or that.