Yeah man, no way that’s fitting onto a 4in screen. My view of mobile devices has always been like crutches: something to limp-along on until reunion with adequate workstation for the convenient and proper dispensation of poppycock rather than eternal relegation to the likes of sidewalk chalk memeing for the sake of mobility (new stuff), but maybe that’s too sensible aka boring to delay the gratification of dispatching a quick one-liner instead of waiting for the proper equipment necessary to exercise the noodle by putting thought into a reply. These machines are really dumbing us down.
Stefan has become somewhat notorious for talking at length about r/k selection where the propensity to eat one’s seed crop out of lack of delayed gratification differentiates the “planners” from the “mass-breeders” and the phenomenon is in fact as old as the hills.
Yes and it rubs me wrong that businesses and websites have kowtowed to the dictates of the herd in the quest for profits which seems yet another disadvantage of capitalism since every product and service exists for the behest of milking the big hump in the middle of the iq curve regardless of sense or sensibility. My last phone bill seriously looked like a coloring book which is absolutely without sober explanation since paper bills do not have to be digitally displayed (probably some woman who typically couldn’t stand the furniture to be in the same spot for more than a week who also required some justification for her job. I wish those types would be paid to go to the beach to coddle their compulsions with sand castles rather than meddling with my life and being congratulated for it.)
That’s interesting.
liberal (adj.)
mid-14c., “generous,” also “nobly born, noble, free;” from late 14c. as “selfless, magnanimous, admirable;” from early 15c. in a bad sense, “extravagant, unrestrained,” from Old French liberal “befitting free people; noble, generous; willing, zealous” (12c.), and directly from Latin liberalis “noble, gracious, munificent, generous,” literally “of freedom, pertaining to or befitting a free person,” from liber “free, unrestricted, unimpeded; unbridled, unchecked, licentious.” etymonline.com/word/liberal
It reminds me of a scholar:
Old English scolere “student,” from Medieval Latin scholaris, noun use of Late Latin scholaris “of a school,” from Latin schola (see school (n.1)). Greek scholastes meant “one who lives at ease.” etymonline.com/word/scholar
So, liberal, scholar, gentlemen were describing the same person of leisure and means with time to contemplate the charming irrelevancies of life in lieu of having to actually drudge for survival which, of course, leaves them completely out of touch with the plebs.
I suppose the creation of laws are consistent with being nobly born. Someone has to milk the herd.
It presupposes a good and bad whereas liberalism is solely the intolerance of intolerance wherein everything is moral except the act of defining anything to be immoral. They are indeed antipodal and boil down to the answering of one fundamental question: do you believe in universal and absolute right and wrong or do you not?
Of course, if your worldview is absent of a fundamental right and wrong, then you’re not going to want people void of moral compasses to be armed. Since the ends justify the means, liberals tolerate creations of laws that restrict freedom if it means protection whereas conservatives generally protect themselves and their moral compass, so no drinking on sunday or sticking your tallywacker where it doesn’t belong.
1000s of years of listening to stories vs well, however long the majority of people have been able to read. Reading filled a niche necessary to bring about video, but has been since antiquated by the vastly superior conveyance of information that is audio (heck, I’m listening to youtube while I write this). Otherwise textbooks would have sufficed without a professor needing to explain what’s contained in the book.