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One friend put it like this: "a £3.50 cup of coffee in a nice relaxed environment will not make the slightest dent in the tens of thousands of pounds I need to save. No difference at all, so why not enjoy my life a little in the helpless and disempowered life I'm living."

non-imaginative, non-systems-thinking compatriot.

That is at least part of how the right wing has gained in power over the last few decades - through a deliberate decline in empathetic thinking and focusing on single issues rather than the wider picture - which social media facilitates so well!

this third type of rightwinger exists, and thinks that the clever rightwinger's motives are as blind as their own. This makes the clever rightwinger the real danger, since he will manipulate to serve himself and by the very nature of the other rightwingers, he is not identifiable to their /

Some do, some don't. There is also the systems thinker who doesn't have an ounce of empathy. He is only interested in himself and his own gain. This type of right winger (the Farage/Trump type) is the most dangerous, because the other types of right winger have no idea that /

housing offered liberation for individuals, it is now a burden of debt that empowers banks. My friend just could not understand this.

3) Of course, there is a third, very clever right winger - because it's not true that (as another friend commented) right wingers have a lower than average IQ. /

for the first time, you see beyond the individual home owner to the system: privatisation passed a huge amount of publicly owned property into bank ownership via mortgages. And each time the house is resold, it re-enters bank ownership: a neverending cycle of profit for banks. Where once that /

empowering people to own their own homes. And that is true on one level. On another level, it opened up a huge swathe of housing to mortgage companies - thus enriching the Tory's friend in the City, the banker. Seen like this, with a huge body of real estate entering the debt-mortgage paradigm /

makes you aware of wider issues: how specific structures in society support some and disadvantage others, and from there to wider economic structures. One point of discussion that really highlighted this was my friend pointing to council house privatisation as a good thing. He saw it as Thatcher /

and actors I know are systems thinkers. Because they don't see the naked individual alone in the landscape, but are aware of the undercurrents and influences on their behaviour, they are more aware of the events beyond the person's control that creates a person.

Systems thinking in this way thus /

bad, even though they may do bad things. It encourages a wider view of an individual so you can see the many different things that have happened to that person to arrive at that point in their life. With imagination comes empathy in this way, and from that - kindness to others.

2) Many writers /

true portrayal of another person, you need to think your way into their head. You have to understand the choices they made, the influences on another's life that might make them come to their current behaviour. It's an act of imagination that enables you to see that other people aren't necessarily /

A right wing reactionary friend said to me "why are you actors and writers all bloody lefties?" and although there are some right wing artists, it's a good question. I think there are 3 main reasons:
1) Writers and actors spend their entire lives thinking about other people. To write or perform a /

Wow. Just finished reading The Mill On The Floss by George Eliot.

I'm crying.

Diana was 16 when Charles Windsor, 29, began grooming her.

Un Chien Andalou was surprisingly fun.

Thatcher's council house privatisation was a brilliant means of using an aspirational public to transfer publicly owned wealth to banks.

So, Alias season 1: the absolute low point is Quentin Tarantino's guest appearance, which takes the definition of acting to new lows.

This is the class system explained.

This is the most sensible and simple answer. But polar mogwais can't be fed for a full 6 months! Brutal.

Have just been rewatching Alias - and my goodness I'd forgotten how much of a babe Jennifer Garner was/is.

But, what if they've migrated?!?! Goodness, it just gets increasinglt problematic.

The UN needs to commission a report on this.

The wider question is whether mogwai(s?) correct for daylight saving at all... and then, if they don't, are they directly timed by GMT rather than their time zone?!?

The whole thing is a furby nightmare.

Oops! Mea culpa!

Oh great! What brings you to the south coast of England?

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take the rage out of social media.

Front panel of book with gilt frames on dark red morocco.

Spine of Sir Walter Scott's Marmion, gilt compartments and decorated bands with gilt stamped title.

Gilt fore-edge of book with leading edge of boards also gilt.

Inner corner of book with gilt stamped design to edge of pastedown.

The Victorians knew how to bind books. This one in red morocco with gilt frames and embellishments to boards, gilt spine, gilt edges and inner dentelles is a beauty. I read these sometimes just for the physicality of the medium. An embodied intellectual pleasure.

I find the use of "than" after "different" an irritating American English trait. "Than" indicates quantitive comparison: "more/less than". Difference is qualitative, indicating divergence from similarity. Hence "different from" never "different than", just as it's not similar than" but "similar to".

Its the US Army's job to protect the Constitution. When are they going to act and kick this administration out?

Deeply angry with supposedly "eco-friendly" ecosia offering fucking AI overviews by default.

As a human being i have written Wikipedia articles.

I know how strong the peer review process is.

Grokipedia does not offer an alternative. It is a parody.