Recent content by durangodawood

Proposing that positive action would have to be the sole responsibility of this or that racial group is just a trick played by those whod see nothing happen at all. Its repulsive, and they know it. A national situation like this is a collective problem, meaning: any improvement involves all of...

I'm not talking about any single particular persons own life outcomes. To people who are inclined toward racism, she is part of the class "black people". Her kids will be too. But the bigger point is that just by being black in America, your economic situation, life expectancy, odd of being...

Society generally has a lot less at stake with beauty favoritism. It may be terribly unjust for the individuals who get the short end of that one. But the problem doesnt aggregate into enduring classes the way race does. Theres no homely people side of town where people go when theyre hounded...

You seem to think you know a lot about me. But I dont think you can get that much insight about people from how they react to your various wrong-headed "challenges".

Even IF the theory of evolution got overturned (it wont - though it will be elaborated on)..... Biblical literalists would still have to contend with the record of changing forms of life over geological scales of time. Its the available facts that challenge their view more than any theory that...

The massive proliferation of satellites has the potential to make space exploration impossible.

Im wondering how the fall of Numenor would fit into a question about history? Also I didnt vote. See post #33

What about the fall of Numenor, when the entire small continent slipped into the sea in the Second Age?

What does that say?

I dont think the poll options should include mythology if we're asking about history.

The article indicated genetics are not the issue, for reasons it explains. So Darwin can stay seated.

For sure I considered that possibility. But I really think the attention span thing is a big deal. Its the key to penetrating deeper insights and difficult topics, and its suffering in the current always-on mobile/media environment.

Not to mention romping around in the hills, woods, tidal marshland, etc*, pretending at all kinds of self created scenarios, negotiating, building connections to the natural world, developing agility. All that sharpens the mind in ways underappreciated, I think. (*or whatever unruly space was...

In the 70s people had the patience to listen to a record. Remember them? 45 minutes of the same band.

Im skeptical. The new ways of processing the world are shallower, on average, than the old ways. The have to be to pass the ever narrowing gates of our contemporary attention spans.