Break of Reality

Monobody

The regressive agenda in a nutshell

This ad against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker sums it up pretty well:

Developmental dillwads

In ongoing IPS FB discussions on the Sam Harris-Ben Affleck argument, kennilinguists continue to peg people into developmental boxes, as if anyone ever consistently displays one particular level. So I must reiterate, apparently ad infinitum, actual research from developmental psychology.

Kennilinguists think developmental levels might be useful in this discussion, which levels are involved? From which participants? In what particular statements? In what contexts? If we accept the actual developmental research* that no one is 'at' a level all the time in all contexts, or that something like a CoG is even feasible, then go ahead and get specific in each sentence they utter, in each context, in each line, in each emotional state etc. Please.

And perhaps an even more fundamental question: Does one have to speak kennilingus to be considered 'integral'?

* Recall Fischer in the Handbook of Developmental Psychology:

Sam Harris interview on the Islam debate

This is following the big blowout on Maher's show a couple of weeks ago.

Sam Harris on Randian libertarianism

I posted this Sam Harris blog at FB concerning the greedy rich. Here are a few excerpts of his follow-up post:

"It is difficult to ignore the responsibility that Ayn Rand bears for all of this. [...] As someone who has written and spoken at length about how we might develop a truly 'objective' morality, I am often told by followers of Rand that their beloved guru accomplished this task long ago. The result was Objectivism—a view that makes a religious fetish of selfishness and disposes of altruism and compassion as character flaws. If nothing else, this approach to ethics was a triumph of marketing, as Objectivism is basically autism rebranded."

Jon Stewart on political dysfunction

 He nails it in this clip. The regressives run on a broken government that they in fact broke with their deliberate obstruction. Senate minority leader McConnell admitted as much before Obama's inauguration, knowing his ignorant and easily manipulated base would blame Obama for their failures. Another prime example is McConnell's campaign for reelection in KY. The KY Obamacare exchange is called Kynect and it is working and highly popular, even among his ignorant base. So he agrees to keep the Kynect website while getting rid of the program that is helping those who need it in KY?

Freedom to be a burden

This cartoon is the regressive rationalization for FREEDOM to poison themselves so that it costs the healthcare system and the rest of us more, thereby placing the burden on us for their irresponsible personal behavior. But in their little minds their childish and indulgent freedom is more important than the social freedom from high health care costs for everyone.

The US is number one, but in what?

See this article. We lead the world in military expenditures, weapons export, have the most guns and gun-related deaths. How are we ranked otherwise? We are 17th in reading, 21st in math, and 20th in educational attainment. We ranked last in industrial countries for healthcare, and 30th for all countries. We have the 7th highest cancer rate and rank 26th in life expectancy.

Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly on white privilege

Stewart almost gets the clown to admit to it, sort of. But he won't admit it.