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woke up to the westpac chopper coming over.
when I went down town I saw a person I knew and asked her if anything had happened.
She told me that a balloon had crashed and there were eleven fatalities.
locals and tourists.
last night listened to stephen pinker on RNZ. a doco from BBC world services.
he is another person from whom I instinctively recoiled the moment I started reading one of his books over 20 years ago.
my opinion has never changed.
he reminds me of this Austrian diplomat who wrote a treatise in the 19th c that was full of big words but the content was vapid.
and they believe him because he has authority?
see my piece in the real deal blog and if you can then read his books and make up your own mind.
the trouble is that he has included so many red herrings that tracking them all down is a monumental task that requires reams of additional reading and lots of time and inclination.
otherwise you just have to take his word for it.
however if you do research it then you realise that much of pinkers writing is just speculation and basically worthless not to say meaningless.
he jumped on the computational theory of mind back in the late 1980's without really having any understanding of psychology or mind at all and tried to pull himself up by his bootstraps in academe without any preparation.
like chomsky he believes in the higher and deeper levels of mind that are somehow inaccessible to mere mortals like you and me but surprise surprise support the theory of innate scientific socialism.
yeah right.
if you want to know the real deal about language mentation then check out brian fay's work the contemporaray philosophy of soical science.
a no nonsense appraach that rings true and observes the principles of occams razor by not multiplying entities and keeping things simple.
not simpler.
just simple.
so there ae no leaps to HIGHER LEVELS and ordinary people can read and understand if they take the time.
ok folks.
thats enough from me.
just gotta say that after I started putting piccies of doris Day on my blog a little revival of sorts has begun??
It might be self conceit but I dont mind no recognition. its the way things are done in this post modern word.
somebody reads my blog.
the bastards wont click on the ads and generate some revenue for me. They just steal your ideas
And the other thing is that though they might use her to fill half a page you know that her movies are never going to be shown in New Zealand. Leonard Maltins book lists over seventeen thousand movies but they (?) showed the green mile and as good as it gets three times each last year.
is there something about the associated costs of showing decent pictures or a severe lack of imagination? I may be wrong but I tend to believe the latter.
anyway I cherish my memories of Doris and Rock Hudson and Randolph Scott and Geoff Chandler and Audie Murphy and all those flix. There was something at the heart of them that had relevance and not just the clever clever stuff that wannabee auteurs come up with these days.
when I went down town I saw a person I knew and asked her if anything had happened.
She told me that a balloon had crashed and there were eleven fatalities.
locals and tourists.
last night listened to stephen pinker on RNZ. a doco from BBC world services.
he is another person from whom I instinctively recoiled the moment I started reading one of his books over 20 years ago.
my opinion has never changed.
he reminds me of this Austrian diplomat who wrote a treatise in the 19th c that was full of big words but the content was vapid.
and they believe him because he has authority?
see my piece in the real deal blog and if you can then read his books and make up your own mind.
the trouble is that he has included so many red herrings that tracking them all down is a monumental task that requires reams of additional reading and lots of time and inclination.
otherwise you just have to take his word for it.
however if you do research it then you realise that much of pinkers writing is just speculation and basically worthless not to say meaningless.
he jumped on the computational theory of mind back in the late 1980's without really having any understanding of psychology or mind at all and tried to pull himself up by his bootstraps in academe without any preparation.
like chomsky he believes in the higher and deeper levels of mind that are somehow inaccessible to mere mortals like you and me but surprise surprise support the theory of innate scientific socialism.
yeah right.
if you want to know the real deal about language mentation then check out brian fay's work the contemporaray philosophy of soical science.
a no nonsense appraach that rings true and observes the principles of occams razor by not multiplying entities and keeping things simple.
not simpler.
just simple.
so there ae no leaps to HIGHER LEVELS and ordinary people can read and understand if they take the time.
ok folks.
thats enough from me.
just gotta say that after I started putting piccies of doris Day on my blog a little revival of sorts has begun??
It might be self conceit but I dont mind no recognition. its the way things are done in this post modern word.
somebody reads my blog.
the bastards wont click on the ads and generate some revenue for me. They just steal your ideas
And the other thing is that though they might use her to fill half a page you know that her movies are never going to be shown in New Zealand. Leonard Maltins book lists over seventeen thousand movies but they (?) showed the green mile and as good as it gets three times each last year.
is there something about the associated costs of showing decent pictures or a severe lack of imagination? I may be wrong but I tend to believe the latter.
anyway I cherish my memories of Doris and Rock Hudson and Randolph Scott and Geoff Chandler and Audie Murphy and all those flix. There was something at the heart of them that had relevance and not just the clever clever stuff that wannabee auteurs come up with these days.
thank you Ryan for putting this pic on "my pictures" on this computer.
oh and Mr President.
another puff piece in the rag today. supposedly an editorial but just a partisan freebee for the gop.
yetchhhhhhhhh!
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