Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
Problem is that having social power actually affects the brain, suppressing the parts that do empathy.
It will always be harder, neurologically, for someone with power to engage their empathy or to consider the pain of others in their decisions.
Hence gestures at the world.
I believe this is just about which word a language uses to say that an adjective applies to a noun. While ‘to be’ is very popular for this, ‘to have’ is quite common too. Mandarin uses ‘very’.
滿庭芳 is man ting fang, in case anyone was curious. I’m guessing that was the intended meaning of MTF.
“Aroma filled hall” seems to be the meaning, but “good Manchu court” is not out of the question 😆 I am not a native speaker.
Allowing the rich to control the world has proved pretty suicidal.
Every day we find out how much better the world could be if we’d already killed the rich.
I’m a filthy casual, I’m yet to play above prince. I’ve had enemies take advantage of glaring weaknesses I left open, but I’ve never felt like my plans were thwarted.
Unciv is the only free mobile game I’ve ever found to be playable for more than a week.
Do you want to play civ4 smoothly and for free? This does that and has heaps of easily installed mods. Last time I played espionage was still to be implemented, but that’s in the works.
Pie-low-tees?
Just in case anyone missed the “China Bad” and “Tree Depression” tags, this is satire and not a real article.
This is how you can tell he’s a politician and not a progressive. He has the single trait all truly evil people share: ambition.
Trans acceptance polls and focus-groups very badly right now. Fascist fearmongers have filled the information space with simple and incorrect explanations and now when asked, a majority of Americans will say or agree with nonsense statements like “trans has gone too far”.
Many politicians are looking at those polls and reacting exactly like Newsom - doing what’s easiest for their career rather than standing up, educating and fighting for a progressive cause to move public opinion towards justice.
good (inclusive) leadership
That’s a neurological impossibility and we don’t gain anything by pretending otherwise.
whenever there’s a group of people together, someone will be the leader
You have a friend who’s always exerting their will over everyone else? This is thankfully not my experience.
Hierarchy has definitely infected our lives and thinking to a sickening extent. People pursuing power for what they see as good is the problem. Trying to influence what the power-hungry see as good is a fools errand because the effect that power has on the brain means “good” will always become “good for me” as you gain power.
The only way to a better world is people rejecting the self destructive desire to stand above. We need stories and social infrastructure that works towards that goal.
I would rather children are inspired to not be leaders at all. Good role models can exist, they’re just never in a position of social power.
Power is inherently corrupting. History shows this time and again. Popular wisdom captures this. Neuroscience shows that power supresses a human brain’s capability for empathy.
In the real world, pursuing individual power always results in far more evil than good. Stories that whitewash the reality of power do not make the world better.
I mean I guess but it seems like honest police or benevolent kings - they can exist in fiction but then the fiction loses any relevance to the real world.
I really like the sentiment, although brave knights were just violent aristocrats - the most commonly met cruel enemy throughout history.
I’d prefer to name them after oil company executives.
Seeing only the thumbnail at first I was sure that lynchpin piece was going to be “the plot of babylon 5”