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open-source censorship
rather than have centralized fcc-style protection of the internet, where everyone has to conform to standards set by the majority, there should be a free downloadable program where the user can either: individually choose different levels of restrictions for different individually created categories of websites (violent, sexual, political, clowns); choose to follow the profile set by some other user (falwell, fonda, bin laden); or create/join a community which democratically votes on which sites should be restricted for all.
background: censorware and sections 13 and 17 of "convention on the rights of the child"
background: censorware and sections 13 and 17 of "convention on the rights of the child"
Friday, July 21, 2006
why study history?
1) Learn organizational skills:
How to take a bunch of disparate facts, organize them
In a way which makes those facts coherent...
And then spit out
An argument about those disparate facts
One which is convincing to other people.
That's a ridiculously useful skill to have.
The "we impose ourselves on the past" argument only really applies to shitty arguments,
Being biased doesn't matter, but a bias which makes an argument unconvincing does.
2) There are concepts in history which everyone can relate to:
How do people deal with authority?
How do people construct belief?
How do people relate to one another in a given social environment?
History's a relatively safe construction zone for answering the above.
......
I could probably construct something similar for stripping:
you'll get over the "we impose ourselves on the audience" argument and realize the limited extent of self-commodification
how is your self-image defined? what's the role of others in so defining it?
seduction is ridiculously useful, and stripping professionally is a relatively safe way to learn how to seduce
looks great on your resume.
...
professional hobo-ing still wins out though.
...
...
heh, you = stripper.
oh, and here:
How to take a bunch of disparate facts, organize them
In a way which makes those facts coherent...
And then spit out
An argument about those disparate facts
One which is convincing to other people.
That's a ridiculously useful skill to have.
The "we impose ourselves on the past" argument only really applies to shitty arguments,
Being biased doesn't matter, but a bias which makes an argument unconvincing does.
2) There are concepts in history which everyone can relate to:
How do people deal with authority?
How do people construct belief?
How do people relate to one another in a given social environment?
History's a relatively safe construction zone for answering the above.
......
I could probably construct something similar for stripping:
you'll get over the "we impose ourselves on the audience" argument and realize the limited extent of self-commodification
how is your self-image defined? what's the role of others in so defining it?
seduction is ridiculously useful, and stripping professionally is a relatively safe way to learn how to seduce
looks great on your resume.
...
professional hobo-ing still wins out though.
...
...
heh, you = stripper.
oh, and here:
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
revolution!
i read a book about revolution today, it was quite exciting. these guys came and told a king that he was acting tyrr-ynn-yous-ly, so the king said "let's be friends!" and they all smiled and laughed and then the king made an army to kill them all. but the army poofed! (hoorah! that makes marx happy!) and then a bunch of people were executed (wow!) and then they all went to fight the french but the french won so they were sad but then there was peace and milk and honey flowed forth from their arses rejoice! and then the king had them all killed. ten years later. it was rad.
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