EPTOn August 28 2013 05:59 packrat386 wrote:
objective overview of the War in Iraq.
objective overview of the War in Iraq.
nonsense question. there's no such thing as objectivity.
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
nonsense question. there's no such thing as objectivity. | ||
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On August 28 2013 06:07 sam!zdat wrote: nonsense question. there's no such thing as objectivity. Come on sam, you know what I meant. I want a low analysis version. | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
On August 28 2013 06:09 sam!zdat wrote: fuck that. just read 'The Shock Doctrine' After checking wikipedia, no thanks. I don't drink the kool aid. | ||
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Malinor
Germany4734 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.infinitecurio.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/the-well-of-ascension.jpg) The first book was very enjoyable. | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
On August 28 2013 06:12 packrat386 wrote: After checking wikipedia, no thanks. I don't drink the kool aid. don't be foolish. Naomi klein is one of the only real journalists we have left. You've just been brainwashed into thinking that the only way to be 'objective' is to be a milquetoast apologist. It's just the ideology of the status quo. | ||
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Doppelganger
488 Posts
On August 28 2013 06:12 packrat386 wrote: After checking wikipedia, no thanks. I don't drink the kool aid. I also was rather interested in something more closely resembling scientific literature. | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
you would learn far more by reading klein and then some right winger and comparing than you ever would from your mythical 'objective source' which can never and will never exist. we're an entire generation of people who have been brainwashed into thinking that we are 'scientists.' what lunacy! look, I come from a philosophical tradition which spent over a hundred years thinking it had the one objecive viewpoint from which to construct the only true Science of history. It doesn't exist, never has, and never will. We are all lost in the funhouse my friend | ||
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.optimo.co.uk/books-2012/images/MAO2.jpg) Oh yeah sam, wasn't there a book on the Red Guards that you recommended to me on Facebook one day? | ||
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porkRaven
United States953 Posts
Blubber Island is a philosophical, dark comedy written in the genre of Gutter Surrealism. The story centers on a cast of unique characters struggling to maintain and disrupt the fabric of reality. Using a blend of the outrageous and metaphysical, the question is asked: Is human freedom better off without reality? I would definitely suggest reading this for anyone looking for a very dark humorous book which touches upon some interesting concepts of the human psyche. Has anyone else read this? If so what do you think of it?![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51odUHabA-L._SY346_PJlook-inside-v2,TopRight,1,0_SH20_.jpg) Don't think I am going to do anything but skim for what I want but currently reading: ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fcerBTwpL._SY346_PJlook-inside-v2,TopRight,1,0_SH20_.jpg) Planning on reading: ![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Fxz80R10L._SY346_.jpg) | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
On August 28 2013 06:52 sam!zdat wrote: We are all lost in the funhouse my friend just make sure to enjoy the ride. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On August 28 2013 06:09 sam!zdat wrote: fuck that. just read 'The Shock Doctrine' that book sounds like the most awful thing ever author spoke at my school had to go listen to it for a class, wanted to kill myself | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On August 28 2013 13:04 sam!zdat wrote: why? because it's your standard, inane division of the world into the evil capitalists and everyone else who stands for freedom and democracy getting crushed by the dark, overwhelming forces of the economy it's super naive and simplistic and it's nothing more than empty rhetoric supported by naught but ideology, and falls barely short of straight up lying to present her narrative that in and of itself is fine, but when it tries to pass itself off as a work of serious scholarship it's really dumb it doesn't help that she was a very poor speaker who got very awkward and hyperdefensive when taking Q and A afterwards | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On August 28 2013 13:11 sam!zdat wrote: shallow caricature of her argument hardly think the caricature had more depth than her actual argument | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
to confirm: you have not actually read the book correct? | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On August 28 2013 13:31 sam!zdat wrote: ridiculous. how did she lie to confirm: you have not actually read the book correct? no i read parts of it and heard her summarize most of it | ||
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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