Figure illustrating the fields that contributed to the birth of cognitive science, including linguistics, neuroscience, artificial Intelligence, philosophy, anthropology, and psychology.
Sounds like a whole bunch of people generalized for notice and acclaim. Every time a field rises up that takes the general position, "your thoughts and actions are contrived and determined and I can explain why and how," it's utter bullshit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neEVoFODQOE (Part 2 - Has very important points on Reverse Racism and how it doesn’t exist, and it also dismantles the “We All Bleed Red” mentality.)
Statistically racism is the hardest variable to demonstrate in any of these scenarios. Family structure and household education level all explain each factor better than racism.
In June of 1972, a woman appeared in Cedar Senai hospital in nothing but a white, blood-covered gown. Now this, in itself, should not be too surprising as people often have accidents nearby and come to the nearest hospital for medical attention, but there were two things that caused people who saw her to vomit and flee in terror.
The first being that she wasn’t exactly human. she resembled something close to a mannequin, but had the dexterity and fluidity of a normal human being. Her face, was as flawless as a mannequins, devoid of eyebrows and smeared in make-up.
There was a kitten clamped in her jaws so unnaturally tight that no teeth could be seen, and the blood was still squirting out over her gown and onto the floor. She then pulled it out of her mouth, tossed it aside and collapsed.
From the moment she stepped through the entrance to when she was taken to a hospital room and cleaned up before being prepped for sedation, she was completely calm, expressionless and motionless. The doctors thought it best to restrain her until the authorities could arrive and she did not protest. They were unable to get any kind of response from her and most staff members felt too uncomfortable to look directly at her for more than a few seconds.
But the second the staff tried to sedate her, she fought back with extreme force. Two members of staff had to hold her down as her body rose up on the bed with that same, blank expression.
She turned her emotionless eyes towards the male doctor and did something unusual. She smiled.
As she did, the female doctor screamed and let go out of shock. In the woman’s mouth were not human teeth, but long, sharp spikes. Too long for her mouth to close fully without causing any damage…
The male doctor stared back at her for a moment before asking “What in the hell are you?”
She cracked her neck down to her shoulder to observe him, still smiling.
There was a long pause, the security had been alerted and could be heard coming down the hallway.
As he heard them approach, she darted forward, sinking her teeth into the front of his throat, ripping out his jugular and letting him fall to the floor, gasping for air as he choked on his own blood.
She stood up and leaned over him, her face coming dangerously close to his as the life faded from his eyes.
She leaned closer and whispered in his ear.
"I…am….God…."
The doctor’s eyes filled with fear as he watched her calmly walk away to greet the security men. His last ever sight would be watching her feast on them one by one.
The female doctor who survived the incident named her “The Expressionless”.
I see all these people telling others to call the national suicide hotline in the wake of Robin Williams' death. If you're feeling like that's your only out, don't call someone you don't know...just talk to me.
Across the planet, new technologies and business models are decentralizing power and placing it in the hands of communities and individuals.
"We are seeing technology-driven networks replacing bureacratically-driven hierarchies," says VC and futurist Fred Wilson.
Some that stood out to me:
Open Garden, a product of the Open Garden Foundation, provides mesh networking through an app that creates a wireless mesh network, enabling everyone to have faster downloads, and stronger and cheaper connectivity.
Commotion Router is free, open source software that allows for communities to build their own mesh networks.
Twister is a peer-to-peer alternative social network operating on a decentralized framework, designed in a way that prevents other users from knowing too much about your whereabouts and online habits.
BitCloud is only a concept for now, but it’s basically a proposal to replace the entire internet with a decentralized system.
WunderBar is a starter kit for developers, hackers and makers looking to test out ideas and contribute to the Internet of Things.
Smart Contracts: What if contracts could enforce themselves, obviating the need for contract law and lawyers? The idea of smart contracts was introduced by Nick Szabo in the 1990s, but recent advancements in cryptography may be moving the idea closer to reality.
Peer to Peer Payments: Services like Square Cash, VenMo and Dwolla are cutting out the bank by creating a platform and framework for online payments between peers.
Peer to Peer Lending: Services like Lending Club, Zopa, and Prosper are cutting out institutional lenders and big banks by enabling people to make loans directly to each other. Over $2.4 billion in peer-to-peer loans were issued in 2013.
Crowdsourcing Civic Engagement: What if getting your city planner’s attention was as easy as tacking a note to a digital bulletin board? With crowdsourcing platforms like Dear City, citizens can do just that, and others can up-vote or down-vote the concern.
Civic Crowdfunding: With public budgets slashed, urban planners and community groups are turning to sites likeCitizinvestor, ZenFunder and neighbor.ly to pay for civic projects and infrastructure.
Decentralized Urban Farming: Services like BK Farmyards, LandShare, hyperlocavore and Sharing Backyards use social media and Google maps to connect urban landowners with urban farmers. But this is just scratching the surface, an entire alternative agriculture system is emerging that’s based on local production, processing, and distribution.
Online Learning Platforms: Technology-based decentralization of education promises to be a game-changing, disruptive force for the future. Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCS) have the potential to be great equalizers, decentralizing education to the extent that college become accessible to everyone, not just those who can afford it, while online learning communities like Duolingo and CodeAcademy have established peer networks to help people learn from each other.
Yes — it is. I won’t advocate it too strongly here on the net, though. They read this stuff, and there’s this.
The Smith Act, And What It Means To You
It’s always in my sidebar, but I don’t see many hits to those links, usually. This ^ says in detail, the legal consequences for even speaking of such a thing.
People that say we aren’t under tyranny have their vision blocked by the ass they kiss. It’s been time for awhile, but they keep us pacified, and get us to buy that they care, forcing us to buy their Care, among many other things.
That’s why I’m not nonviolent, just nonaggressive, but they initiated the force before I was born, so it’s impossible to aggress here.
No fantasy here.
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