Paragone

Paragone , 2 days ago

@randahl

1. Russia's a dictatorship: only the ones within the power-structure count.

2. Remember something called East Germany??

Humans are contextual entities: IF evil rules, THEN the ticket to power-within-the-system is to ingratiate oneself in evil's system.

MORE THAN 50% OF THE POPULATION OF EAST GERMANY WAS SNITCHING TO INGRATIATE THEMSELVES IN THE SYSTEM.

Human Nature.

The system IS the frame-of-reference that they are living in.

Their freedom is freedom only within it.

To violate the system is to bring its nihilistic psychopathic sadism down on one's own life.

To arrogantly demand "how can any Russian support Putin" is to arrogantly pretend that human isn't controlled/owned by context.

You may pretend/claim that you aren't controlled by context, while safely not in their context,
but when US Civil War Part2 has progressed to the point that having been a member of the Democratic party makes one a "terrorist" in US Law, then will you so arbitrarily holler?

( I've no idea if you live in the US, but use this as an example:

Fascism's coming for all our countries, & it's going to butcher & burn many of them up to bits )

Have you not seen the reporting of the parades in Russia, where the people show up to attend the parade,
hold their flags,
& as soon as it's over, throw their flags in the garbage?

Is that "patriotism"?

Is that "support"?

The city people in Russia, because education got some considered-reasoning into them, often do not support Putin.

But, as Noam Chomsky pointed-out, rural areas, in Syria, in Russia, in Israel, in the US, ideology rules, outright.

The inferior "education" that our civilization puts on rural people ( cities conserve privilege, quality-education, cultural-wealth, development, power, authority, etc, all to themselves, as us rural people keep getting hammered into us .. I say that as a former Toronto citizen, so I've lived in both paradigms )

.. that inferior-education, with its condescention against the potential of rural kids has consequences.

Those consequences are now backing the Israeli genociding of Palestinians.

Those consequences are now backing Putin, rurally.

Those consequences are in the process of ripping "democracy" from the US of A.

WHEN the context you live in is as overwhelming of your life as the context that Russians are living in is, on their lives..

THEN speak as though all they had to do was counter the regime..

.. & see how long you live.

Ignoring others' context is an intellectual-moral crime: a disintegrity that has no validity/standing.

We have to do better than arrogantly declaring others ought ignore/violate their life-contexts.

Sorry if my bitterness is .. undiplomatic, but diplomacy failed, consistently, & now an alternative to it speaks.

Exactly as you would have the Russians speak arbitrarily, I AM speaking arbitrarily a truth that is being systematically-ignored.

Block me, to prevent my doing what you would have others do, from being visible in your world..

show the world how what you say & what you do don't have to have any coherency..

or not.

Consider, though, context.

It obviously isn't significant to you, but it is immersingly-significant in their lives.

& consider, also, that when the rich cities conserve quality-education to themselves, then a generation or 2 later, having the rural regions be the basis of highjacking/owning/possessing the country by reactionary ideology ..

that is fscking inevitable, as the US, Russia, the Zionists, the Islamists, etc, are all proving, this next decade.

Citified narcissism created the strategic problem.

& now cities are getting "their" world butchered by the consequences, the "reaping", of what they "sowed".

"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link."

A citizenry is only as strong as its citizen-competence's weakest-link is.

Quality-education CANNOT be compromised, without giving-away the ruling of the country, to ideology.

Nearly every country in the whole world got that wrong.

& the world will burn in world-war, as a result of that ignoring/denying.

Context is important.

Including whether the population is by default within Kahneman1 ( ideology/prejudice, aka imprint-reaction, aka animal-reaction, mind ) or in Kahneman2 ( considered-reasoning mind, which is hard to instill in a population, & easy to lose, & it requires out-competing all the limbic-pack-instincts in populations ) mind.

( read the most important psychology book in our whole world, right now: Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast And Slow" to understand how populations in "System 1" dominion, as he calls Kahneman1 mind, react, not consider, & how that derails civilization ).

WE failed the shoddy-education lives.

Their butchering of our world is .. payback for our narcissistic strategic-carelessness.

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Paragone , 1 month ago

@faab64 The term for that is @AssholeDesign I think..

There was a subreddit for that kind of thing..

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Paragone , 1 month ago

@breadandcircuses While I agree with the general-idea of this, the distances within the US or Canada are not similar to the distances within The Netherlands, or Uruguay, or Germany, etc..

Oversimplification can be dangerous.

It'd take some serious strong-arming, however, to get sanity into government, anywhere, if there's a political-party-highjacking-the-country 1st-past-the-post election-system..

Perhaps a graph showing 1PTP-election jurisdictions vs alternatives, & the transport-balance in those categories, might possibly be informing?

I've no idea: it's just an idea/question..

Paragone , 1 month ago

@psoul @breadandcircuses I agree with you!

I'm pointing-out that between cities, & rurally, the conditions are drastically different, and that graph ignored the context-actuality, and that is mis-representation!

City trips isn't the same as all trips within a country, the whole category, when so much of North American stuff is shipped by truck, over roads, yet that graph never differentiated.

I'm bugged by oversimplification ( which feeds into the whole ideology-instead-of-considered-reasoning deformity of mind, that mass-media, & politics, pushes ).

WHEN considering England, or The Netherlands, or France, goods-transport doesn't require the immense amount of road-transport that rural North America does:

the territory simply doesn't have a literal billion-hectares of "backwater" region.

Hiding that fact, in order to make an accusation, via an ideologically-convenient graph, isn't honest.

This is why city transport needs to be given in a different graph than rural transport, for it to be honest, is all.

Once the difference becomes visible, then it makes more sense.

Rural people absolutely are dependent on motor-vehicles, in ways that city-people don't understand.

( people are much more likely to die, as a result of not having emergency-services within 1 HOUR, rurally.

Within a city, people simply can't imagine emergency-services being that far away )

The contexts are distinctly-different, & proper information-display respects the data's natural-categorization.

All domains need to stop pushing oversimplification, in my view.

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Paragone , 1 month ago

@MahmutRuzi @breadandcircuses Within a city, from what I've read, China's is much better than it is here in North America.

The whole social-organization is different, there, than it is here, though, so you could literally drop a Chinese-style rural-transportation-network onto North America, & it wouldn't fit, partly because of climate, partly because of different-distribution-of-everything ( from villages, & towns, to what is where in relation to them ).. etc.

Have you ever seen the difference between how farmland is organized in Quebec vs in English-Canada?

The French divided land according to water transport, so farms were made like long noodles, with 1 end touching water, for river-transport.

The English divided land according to road transport.

That cultural difference in organization, which drastically altered land-division, is just 1 single example of how different cultures differently organize things.

I'm mentioning that because getting public-transport to work in a collectivist, Confucian culture, which organized its development according to those cultural-rules, is drastically different from getting public-transport to work in individualist cultures, where people have different employment-choices, different motivations, different friendship-patterns, etc:

As I say, live rurally, & discover how much won't work, and it's astonishing.

Much more could be made to work, if there was any real "we're in it together" spirit, across the country, and that needs to happen, but the locking-out of rural opportunity by citified authorities, & the contempt that the citified people have for rurals, .. it doesn't add-up to "we're in it together".

In the city, 5G is priority.

Rurally, you can't even dial 911 to get emergency-services, in some places, because they just never bothered to make the cellular-network function everywhere..

The contempt that the citified authorities have for rural lives .. is significant.

The contempt that rural people have for the citified snobbery .. "equal & opposite" would be a good representation of it.

"We're in it together" isn't what the cultural-segregation between city & rural has produced..

and that, itself, has consequences, for improving ( or being incapable of improving ) transport ( and everything else, too ).

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