Posts by Sacha
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the real culprit is the cabal who moved this machine into iraq in the first place, and who continue to justify the slaughter with trite aphorisms about freedom.
And used the persistent state of fear they engineered to keep the Amerikan public writing those cheques.
And, boy, have the Bushies been giving our collective amygdala a workout. Especially Dick Cheney, who has proven himself an unmatched master of the dark art of fear-mongering.
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When our right brain is at Threat Level Red, we don't want to hear about a four-point plan to win the peace, or a list of damning statistics, or even a compelling, well-reasoned argument that the policies of Bush and Cheney are actually making us less safe. We want to get the feeling that everything is going to be all right.
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"At the deepest level," Dr. Siegel told me, "we react to fear as adults in much the same way we did as infants. It's primal. Human babies have the most dependent infancy of any species. Our survival depends on the caregiver. We instinctively look to authority figures to comfort us and keep us safe."
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Reminds me too strongly of Anita McNaught, I'm afraid
And how is that a problem? :)
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I'm impressed by how prescient McLaren was about the music industry - thanks, Russell.
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the argument presented for why we need the police and prisons
David, how about actually laying out for us how their absence would work - like I've asked a couple of times - rather than bagging contrary evidence you don't like.
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Totally agree, Ben. Archaic industrial-age stupidity most of it.
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beware the fundamental attribution error
Worth noting that we're wired as observers to explain away problems as being a result of individual behaviour rather than systemic choices.
And that combat training perverts the way soldiers reason and morally experience the world - so that they are capable of killing.
All human though.
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So you're saying you would need an army externally, but not police or legal systems internally?
Fiji, much? -
It became necessary to destroy the town to save it
And saving whales requires killing them
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It's about establishing a supportive climate, Chris, not about directly motivating particular actions.
And yes, the music video we have been talking about was especially disgusting - or this thread would be empty and the clip would still be online.
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Surely the story is the determined cover-up against a media organisation as much as what the video shows now that we finally get to see it.
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