Soren wrote on Oct 29^th, 2015 at 4:50pm:


A petition, eh? That could work.

Oh well, they’re delusional. I’m with Germaine Greer.

And even if I wasn’t, the petition is fascism.

No one has the right to not be offended, no?

aquascoot wrote on Oct 28^th, 2015 at 10:32am:


Yeah, I used to say that the hard and soft sciences should redirect most of their time and effort into understanding, and possibly curing, left-wing nihilism. It wouldn't surprise me to find some physiological deficiencies behind much of it, as many appear to be emasculated losers. I have been thinking lately though that the problem goes deeper. I think it's a spiritual problem. Religion was there in the past to help with those struggling with existential matters. But today there is no religion to help - or should I say, lefties reject outright religious solutions to life matters. There's an excellent article in Quadrant recently that hits on this point.

Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Oct 30^th, 2015 at 5:25am:


It’s economics. People advocate their class interests, but you’re right. Those interests have been complicated by competing ideological forces.

This is not just a classical Marxist position. Howard said the same about Keating, Abbott tried to say the same about Gillard. Keating.and Howard both acknowledged the primacy of the economy in politics, although they both shied away from the term class.

Class is simply your relationship to the economic order, which in most cases is not simple at all. People in jobs need capital and capital needs workers. Class is not simply two social forces struggling. As our economy has increasingly become about branding, information and identity, our class interests have exploded. It’s possible for an unemployed steelworker to be a Tele-reading Tory, as many are. It’s possible for the world’s richest people to advocate wealth redistribution, as many do.- as George Soros, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet do.

All animals have a pecking order and a place at the water hole. If this does have to do with neurology,  it is class shaping that neurology. Change the economic conditions and you change the social order. Change that, and brains develop differently.

Karnal wrote on Oct 29^th, 2015 at 5:57pm:



You make it up as you go, PB. I have never once argued along the lines you attribute to me. But being a skilled distorter, you will continue to misrepresent what I say so you can argue against what you want to argue against, not what I have actually ever said.

Mendacious AND stooopid, no? Few people like you - simultaneously too clever and too stupid to be truthful.

Soren wrote on Oct 30^th, 2015 at 5:13pm:


Only if he works at Cardiff University. Last time I read, he was somewhere in Turkey.

A man after Sir Reggie’s own heart, eh?

Soren wrote on Oct 30^th, 2015 at 5:06pm:


Now now, old chap, denial is not a river in Egypt, you know.

You have early-onset Altzheimers, remember?

Oh, that’s right. You forgot.

Karnal wrote on Oct 30^th, 2015 at 8:21am:


You're still being too reductive in regards to economics. On thing human beings have always done, regards of time and culture, is to want meaning to their lives. This is where the materialist approach of economics and Marxism to give an all-encompassing description of life comes up short. Additionally, the territorial/tribal instinct humans possess is often only loosely related to economics.

Lefties, in my view, suffer from a lack of meaning in their lives. Most are from the middle classes, so the economic problem has more or less been solved for them, so why the continual agitation and pessimism? They're obviously lacking something fulfilling in their lives.