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A Treatise on "Isms"

Started by MMIX, December 13, 2017, 09:45:07 PM

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MMIX

As "Isms" have historically proved to be somewhat controversial subject on the board I thought some of you might get a buzz out of this presentation

https://www.wired.com/2006/12/the_12_isms_of_/
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently" David Graeber

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You can't get out backward.  You have to go forward to go back.. better press on! - Willie Wonka, PBUH

Life can be seen as a game with no reset button, no extra lives, and if the power goes out there is no restarting.  If that's all you see life as you are not long for this world, and never will get it.

"Ayn Rand never swung a hammer in her life and had serious dominance issues" - The Fountainhead

"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation."
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality :lulz:

"You program the controller to do the thing, only it doesn't do the thing.  It does something else entirely, or nothing at all.  It's like voting."
- Billy, Aug 21st, 2019

"It's not even chaos anymore. It's BANAL."
- Doktor Hamish Howl

MMIX

"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently" David Graeber