That was hilarious :)
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I was tempted to write an analysis of his GSB Touchy-Feely experience in terms of your sociopaths/clueless/losers framework, but decided that explaining what was actually going on would get too many people too upset.
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An example of, "The examined life I lead is focused on amassing wealth while poking gentle fun at the examined or unexamined lives of those around me." Sounds like pretty much every nice well-educated investment banker I have ever met.
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And also sad.
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Differences in culture abound. The lack of presentation is taken as robotic in some western locations. Cultural adaptation is an effort
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I'm no Chinese, but isn't the obvious explanation for why the Chinese didn't "have colonies", used gunpowder "only for fireworks", simply that they weren't a**holes? Far, far better than the supposed Christians https://iconicphotos.org/2013/07/16/congo-contd/ … ?
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What a strange assumption that I've not read those. And Europe cannot claim that this but is European civilization, and that bit is not. Everything from Augustine to Auschwitz is European civilization and nothing can be separated out. China could easily have had colonies, and
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chose not to. I'm using the terms which *you* used to judge civilizations. Colonies, and gunpowder "only for fireworks" (instead of for blowing people up, I assume?). Not everything Western was wretched, but the worst was fantastically so.
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This is brilliant :) appreciate the reference
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