Small town. My PC Dr. for 30ish years was my best friend's dad.
As I got older and the internet arived, I'd just show up for my appt and tell him what was wrong and how to treat it. He would ask a few questions to confirm or offer minor adjustments to my thoughts/plans and I'd get pretty much what I knew when I came in.
I was my own Dr. and I interned under him. But we had a good relationship beyond professional.
That's what I think Dr.foshould do most. "Let your food be your medicine and you're Dr. your teacher." That's pretty close to the original I think.
I exchange the carbs I grow weekly for pretty regular amounts of beef, butter and bacon.
Occasionally when I see that my budget is running smooth and I have some excess carbs in storage, I target a sale on some higher quality beef, butter and bacon to stock up or have a treat. Maybe some eggs.
Replace the BB&B with BTC and the carbs with fiat, and the analogy is complete.
People still participate in Politics? #politics #joke
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Yes. Your note proves it.
So, those who want to parent (rule, guide and lead... goveren) children are inherently different beings than those who want to lead, guide, and govern parts of society?
But they are not so different. They, leaders and governors, are often parents themselves.
Wanting, or being willing, to governmen children or otherwise is in fact not ipso facto proof or even evidence that the willing are least suited to it.
In fact if they were so unsuited to it, the example of their parenting would reflect it and we would indeed have no society left. But, as most governors are parents, the locus of the flaw is not merely shown in the desire to govern.
Further we can skew our description of parenting to show the incentives are similar. We are wired to raise our children (in part) precisely so they can serve us later on in our older years.
I'm not saying the state or our system is good. This rationale for the major cause of the problem just doesn't pass logical muster as regards human nature.
You're observation of incentives has more explanatory power than a blanket view of the nature of humans.
What is "HBO" anyway? Isn't it short hand for hobo?
Wrote my first Substack article today.
https://open.substack.com/pub/noesuree/p/youre-literally-damaging-my-hearing
Anyone interested in examining a list of such things?
Generally speaking we all understand that exceptions tend to evidence the general rule rather than disprove it.
Once we pass a large enough number and variety of exceptions, we might want to reconsider the rule.
Most of us are just fine with a large number and variety of book burnings if we set the rhetoric aside and consider things we might legit find unsuitable for production and consumption.
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Power
Morality
Authority
Social Capital
Political Capital
Leave one out of your view of reality and you loose the ability to affect change the world. You will always be at the mercy of those who recognize those things as real.
That was too cool. I had to look it up.
In an effort to control the crime inherent in illicit gambling, the Nevada State Prison in Carson City had the Carson City Mint make these coins to use in 'The Bull Pen Casino'. An actual casino legally operated within the prison for the prisoners between 1932 and 1976. Local politicians and even the Kiwanis club were regular visitors and gamblers at the legal prison casino.
I stumbled upon some old Metallica yesterday. It strikes me that one sings 'Shortest Straw' or 'Don't Tread on Me' with different intent and emotion depending on where they find their 'side' fits in the power structure.
I think it's also a question of power and knowing where you stand.
I'm pretty familiar with the work of some on... let's just say 'the right' who can be condescending, dismissive of.... who would never be proponents of democracy at all.
Give them power and they'll dismis the same things for different reasons. They, for the most part, aren't as vocal because they are aware of their current place in the power structure. Right now it's always 'safe' to cry about muh democracy.
Thus for me the question looks less at political power balances and more toward how I should value the rights, opinions and autonomy of others where and when I have power to act on those values.
...aahhhh... just a tiny adjustment. More signal. It's kind of like tuning a radio.