backwoodsnotes: July 2016

Sunday, July 31, 2016

what do women want...

same things as men.
or as Adam Smith opine in his "Theory Of Moral Sentiments" what humans want most of al is command over labour.
Being the boss trumps everything.
the question is how do they go about getting what they want?

not impressed by the editor of Sunday Magazine supplement out of the SST.
In her editorial about MEN she used several interogatives didnt she.
From coro st and other semi lowlife teevee programming they have wormed their way into everyday language and into print haven"t they?
It seems de rigeur for nitwit talking heads like Simon Hamptin to use them as some sort of badge of something I am not quite sure of when they are doing their bites on Teevee aren't they.
The fact of the matter is that lazy academic linguists who are not philosophers or logicians have condoned interrogatives and classed them as tag endings haven't they.
Rather than taking a stand they have taken the easy way out haven't they?
Interrogatives are dishonest because they do not adduce any evidence for the proposition that is being asserted and they are disrespectful because they are asking the listener to agree immediately without time to consider the truth or falsehood of the statement and are fallacious arguments from authority.
Worse still they are a form of verbal bullying aren't they.

So to the meat of Emily Simpsons vacuous splurt on men she seems to think that the world should be a normative thing and doesnt seem to be able to take it as it is.
If she wants a grovelling cowering pussy whipped wimp then why doesn't she say so.
Female praying mantis' and black widow spiders are know to devour their mates in the act of copulation because they are bigger and stronger than the male and I have no doubt that if human women were bigger and stronger than men then the same thing would happen here.

Thursday, July 28, 2016

just the facts mam...

Ace piece from Rosemary Mcleod in yesterdays Dompost.
The answer to her question is not simple and is concatenation of factors.
first the world has climbed a wittgensteinian ladder and cant remmember where we came from.
you know. the old switcheroo.
second the people have become adventitious to the system which is now driving people.
third the world population has exponentialised and there are more and more ruggered indeevidyoualls clamouring for goods, stuff and having their bums kissed by the masses or anyone else they can suborn.

World population milestones in billions (USCB estimates)
Population	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Year	1804	1927	1959	1974	1987	1999	2012	2026	2042
Years elapsed	––	123	32	15	13	12	13	14	16

It is estimated that the world population reached one billion for the first time in 1804. It was another 123 years before it reached two billion in 1927, but it took only 33 years to reach three billion in 1960.^[77] Thereafter, the global population reached four billion in 1974, five billion in 1987, six billion in 1999 and, according to the United States Census Bureau, seven billion in March 2012.^[78] The United Nations, however, estimated that the world population reached seven billion in October 2011.^[7]^[8]^[9]
According to current projections, the global population will reach eight billion by 2024, and will likely reach around nine billion by 2037. Alternative scenarios for 2050 range from a low of 7.4 billion to a high of more than 10.6 billion.^[79] Projected figures vary depending on underlying statistical assumptions and the variables used in projection calculations, especially the fertility variable. Long-range predictions to 2150 range from a
(sourced from wikipedia)

as for the baby boomers it ain't their fault.
The 1960's were a time when all the technological advances derived from the mass productions of the second world war reached their peak.
Oil was cheap and abundant.
The oil shocks of the 70's were only a temporary setback and then came the flood of digital products demanded by the space programme and miniaturization devised by the Japanese tech industries.
and the so called green revolution allowed many more births to swell the population.

as for the Hippies.
in essence they were not revolutionary but reactionary.
they were asking for a spiritual revival that manifested itself in the born again movement and other weird growths.

and for drugs it should be noted that every addiction has as its primary goal to prevent the addict feeling their true thoughts and feelings.
from the little old lady with her cup of tea to the drug fiend requiring more and more daily doses of heroin they are just attempts to delude the user that they have control over their feelings.
Anne Wilson Schaeff
When Society Becomes an Addict
in the final analysis a person cannot grow while they are trapped in a substance cycle but if you are a doctor or a lawyer or banker what does it matter?

the problems of philosophy...

scored the legacy of the ancient world at Liberty Books in Upper Hutt a month ago and this week I found one of Berties Masterpieces from 1912 and a complete works of Plato.
When I did Phil at Vic I was in a terrible hurry and basically skipped over a lot of stuff in my eagerness to swallow everything.
Now I have the time to revisit the whole canon at leisure.
Number the premises and take notes.
hehehehehehehehehe.
It helps to pass the time.
But and it is a big but.
Wittgenstein was wrong when he claimed that philosophy is therapeutic.
The only way to truly know yourself is to study Sigmund Freud.
Those who cleave to Wittgensteins dictum are in denial and deliberately avoiding knowing themselves.
He had psychological problems of his own and illustrated by his architectural staircase designs that allowed people to look up womens dresses!
Philosophers are usually ineffectual people and desirous of appearing to know everything but their seemingly blanket denial of Freud is a deliberate attempt to hide themselves from themselves and everyone else.
Nevertheless as Alfred North Whitehead said the whole of philosophy is merely a footnote to Plato and the study of his work will repay the student thousandfolds.
and Guiseppe Peano ,