All the profit is lies in taking it on the chin at least in the near term. Yet if a pensioner on every street dies the collective weight of grief would cost us. No, the profit lies in taking it on the chin and not crying about your lost loved ones. Being old they would have died soon anyway is the mentality inclined to turn a profit where defending the elderly has wiped trillions off the markets.
Daniel P. Todes, in his account of Russian naturalism in the 19th century, concludes that Kropotkin's work "cannot be dismissed as the idiosyncratic product of an anarchist dabbling in biology" and that his views "were but one expression of a broad current in Russian evolutionary thought that pre-dated, indeed encouraged, his work on the subject and was by no means confined to leftist thinkers."
Kropotkin emphasizes the distinction between competitive struggle between individual organisms over limited resources and collective struggle between organisms and the environment. He drew from his first hand observations of Siberia and Northeast Asia, where he saw that animal populations were limited not by food sources, which were abundant, but rather by harsh weather. For example, predatory birds may compete by stealing food from one another while migratory birds cooperate in order to survive harsh winters by traveling long distances. He did not deny the competitive form of struggle, but argued that the cooperative counterpart has been under-emphasized: "There is an immense amount of warfare and extermination going on amidst various species; there is, at the same time, as much, or perhaps even more, of mutual support, mutual aid, and mutual defense...Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle."
As a description of biology, Kropotkin's perspective is consistent with contemporary understanding. Stephen Jay Gould admired Kropotkin's observations, noting that cooperation, if it increases individual survival, is not ruled out by natural selection, and is in fact encouraged. Kropotkin's ideas anticipate the now recognized importance of mutualism (a beneficial relationship between two different species) and altruism (when one member of a species aids another) in biology. Examples of altruism in animals include kin selection and reciprocal altruism. Douglas H. Boucher places Kropotkin's book as a precursor to the development of the biological theory of altruism.
The aim should be to have all the essential ingredients for national security produced by in-house robots. Or as near as dammit. Questions of who and who isn’t a slob fall away with the AI.
Buy where it’s easiest, not where it’s cheapest. That was the basis for the Monroe doctrine that built the United States.
But automation kicks the legs out of outsourcing. Do they have to be Chinese robots.. Is there any reason to believe that robots made in China will be more profitable and hardworking? No.
I hate that this is who the market decides to give the money to. Our rich and powerful effectively come from a background at the circus, personally I would prefer the government spent the Beckham's money.
Bare-knuckle boxing and the organised monthly power cut. To have our comfort zones punctured by periods of privation is the recipe for a deeper human species appreciative of what it has today. But in limits. If the coronavirus proves to be as brutal as it possibly can you'll get your traditional family unit again.
What I would say is that we can be friends independently of our beliefs. The fact that we can change our minds should give us pause for thought even if we don’t. At one time most everyone was an unwitting accomplice to the Muslim grooming gangs as someone who was nationalistic in the days of Blair it’s clear to me that what people believe should be taken with a pinch of salt.
I cannot accept the right-wingers analysis and I can’t accept the left-wingers conclusions. I accept Marx as a critique of capitalism but not as a communist and likewise I accept that man-made climate change exists if not the hopeless and/or hypocritical attempts to compensate for it.
And then there’s woke. I don’t accept its conclusions or the vast majority of its analysis.
Easy credit and race. I disagree with the blank slate and blank bank accounts. The blank slate is the idea that biology doesn’t count and we inherit nothing at birth. Which is a nonsense. We inherit genes from parents and we inherit wealth or we inherit their debts. I reject the end of history and argue that history is still relevant.
People are losing interest in golf anyway but you know what’s needed is that move away from everything looking like plastic. Try to convince affluence that this manufactured look isn’t always the best in the same that an asymmetrical pizza indicates quality. Britain needs to be more rugged and natural, to target it’s places clearly over-refined where being too domesticated has provoked the rage of Mother Nature.
Plant trees on the golf courses, stop mowing the lawn, and try to be less easily swayed by the power of impulse purchases. The solution is to do something wilder than consumer society.
It will mean that man has to take personal responsibility for his own biosphere. The natural world changing at a hugely accelerated pace more in line with our cities, suffice it to say that our accommodation costs will soar another way of looking at is that we’ve been living rent free ever since the industrial revolution.
I would say that this is the worst version of myself. The least interested in making you happy although I avoid the fights now by completely avoiding you.
The music, the moodiness. What fantastic arts there have been backdropped against the bleakness of the north, with this weather the city will always have a soul.
A bit like the Zulu warrior being far more of a man than the British redcoat the Soviet citizen and his shortages is a Vladimir Putin compared to the abundance that gives us Donald Trump. You would be more if you went without sometimes, this is true.
This is why I suggested the idea of an organised monthly power-cut where all the forces of the materal world are immobilised for the good of the earth and a species that builds manhood and stability of nature. Giving up social media for Lent could be a start.
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RE: Fear For Profit
All the profit is lies in taking it on the chin at least in the near term. Yet if a pensioner on every street dies the collective weight of grief would cost us. No, the profit lies in taking it on the chin and not crying about your lost loved ones. Being old they would have died soon anyway is the mentality inclined to turn a profit where defending the elderly has wiped trillions off the markets.