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Most of us are anglophiles. https://www.quora.com/Do-Americans-think-British-people-hate-them

Any technology indistinguishable from magic will appear as magic. Any life form indistinguishable from a god, will appear as a god. As far as I know we are among the first possible life forms in this particular universe. And neither god nor magic exists except as appearance. And if we ever encounter magic or god…

I know this is how I’m going to die if I am not very careful, since asthma leads to copd, and such. I hope I go in a revolution instead. I was in the UK in the mid 90’s when people died from the flu there. I lost almost 30 lbs. Terrible stuff. …

I don’t really know anyone who writes philosophy outside of science and logic that is anything but moral fictionalist. There are scientists, and logicians, and fictionalists. We have moral fiction, religious fiction, science fiction, we and fiction proper, as well as pseudoscience, pseudo religion, and pseudo-philosophy(pseudo-rationalism). We all daydream in our favorite method of daydreaming.…

Including: – The “Adjective-Profession-Name” Formula. – The Disagreeables, – And The “No-Living-Heroes” Theory. 1) Consider these adjectives: Embattled Controversial Divisive Reclusive Provocative Struggling Right-Wing Eccentric Self-styled Far-Left Recovering Disgraced Self-Promoting Free-thinking Volatile etc. 2) These adjectives are really reserved terms and the ‘tells’ of mainstream media letting you…

Programming. Football on mute. Steak and Egg Brunch. A bottle of San Pellegrino. Coffee.

–“CURT: WHY DO LIBERTARIANS EAT EACH OTHER?”— Very smart question. 1) Men seek status internally and externally by demonstration of superiority in competitions. So geeks fight verbal battles, from positions of relative safety, in an arena where there are enough of them that such competitions are possible (it’s hard to find other smart…

—“Then, as a libertarian, I have a Question for you – where does someone such as myself actually fit in order to help affect the most positive change(s) ???”— We are small in number. We always will be small in number. The world is built for the median. The world MUST be built for…

—-”Why do Americans love to sue each other?”—- TWO REASONS, 1-COMMERCIAL, and 2-CIVIL 1 – COMMERCIAL. Europeans and most of the world REGULATE ability to engage in agreements. Americans RESOLVE conflicts in court instead. This is why there is such a big difference between american and european innovation at all but the macro…

My response would be the same scientific response that the entire empirical establishment settled by the 1960’s. 1. The organization of economic calculation necessary for complex multi-part networks of production is impossible without money and prices. Imputations cannot be made. However, assuming a people desired a minimum autarkic (insulated from external trade) static economy…

—”Why do Israelis seem to be more socially liberal than Americans?”— All civilizations make use of some reproductive strategy in competition with others. In the literature this is called group evolutionary strategy. Humans are capable only of some spectrum of male to female. Jewish civilization makes use of the female reproductive strategy at…

—”Q: Why is innovation worshipped in modern societies around the world?”— Because it provides: (a) marginally different market goods, and markets require either marginally different market goods to decrease prices or on the down side to encourage continuous spending cycles on the up side. (b) marginally different goods provide a people…

It’s very simple. Temporal Law = Government. Wisdom Literature = Religion.

Conservative means empirical, markets, hierarchical via meritocracy, rule of law of reciprocity vs discretion, and the intergenerational nuclear family as the object of policy. Conservatives accumulate capital – particularly genetic and normative. Progressives the opposite – the consume all available capital. That these differences reflect male and female reproductive strategies is…

The american people overwhelmingly did not want Obamacare. They did that anyway. The two americas do war through the single monopoly that we call the federal government. The value of a united states federal monopoly has ended. https://www.quora.com/Do-the-republican-congressmen-really-want-to-spend-18-B-for-a-wall-Why-dont-they-put-it-up-for-a-vote-and-please-the-Trump-voter-base

France probably, with America close behind. https://www.quora.com/Does-America-in-general-have-the-worst-liberals-in-the-world

it’s impossible, so it cannot come into being such that it could be stable or unstable. https://www.quora.com/Is-communism-unstable

—-”Why do Americans love to sue each other?”—- TWO REASONS, 1-COMMERCIAL, and 2-CIVIL 1 – COMMERCIAL. Europeans and most of the world REGULATE ability to engage in agreements. Americans RESOLVE conflicts in court instead. This is why there is such a big difference between american and european innovation at all but the macro industrial levels,…

(Thanks for asking me to answer, and yes this area (Pseudoscience Pseudo-rationalism, Abrahamism, and Pilpul) is one of my specialties. You will easily make note of other people’s use of pseudoscientific psychologisms, unrelated justifications, and outright excuses in some other answers.) My response would be the same scientific response that the entire empirical establishment settled…

—”Why is innovation worshipped in modern societies around the globe?”— Because it provides (a) marginally different market goods, and markets require either marginally different market goods to decrease prices or on the down side to encourage continuous spending cycles on the up side. (b) marginally different goods provide a people with competitive market advantage and…