PJ @pj@qoto.org

Radio Paradise, from Eureka CA, a pioneer in the "#gifteconomy" is hiring a CTO:

"We'll pay you enough to live here comfortably. Semi-generous by local standards, low compared to SF, LA, NYC or London. “Enough” is all any of us aspire to make here. We're not capitalists. We participate – gratefully – in a gift economy. That's a huge part of why we love coming to work each day."

Check it out, forward to anyone who might be interested, or just listen the superb lineups of music on multiple different streams. It's free.😘

https://radioparadise.com/blog/cto

@lime @freemo Well you managed to rope me in. 😣

I don't have any problem with pronouns. They are part of an individual's #group #identity and groups have, as systems to protect and achieve other personal goals, an important role in society.

I would not be pleased, however, if my group identity, or #what I am, was used by someone to define #who I am.

It is rather the #who I am that defines #how I'm going about the #what I am.

@freemo #Pronouns are a problem only if you speak about someone to a third person as, for example, in "they did that to them". If you speak about yourself (I) or to someone directly (you) then there is no such a problem.

So stop bitching about people behind their backs and you won't get in trouble for using the wrong pronoun. 😉

Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/03/26/viktor-frankl-mans-search-for-meaning/

@DrYohanJohn

The real problem is that we often cede (temporary) control to individuals that are neither singular nor remarkable. Just loud bullies.

And, BTW, Tesla gave us AC current and transformers that made long distance electrical distribution possible, was not in control of anything, even his own life, and the only thing he disrupted was Edison's flawed business plan based on DC current.

Good thing #quantity does not always correlate with #quality.
QT: https://mastodon.social/@jesswade/109369861572105971

#Identitypolitics does not promote #diversity.

"Táíwò’s project is reclamation. “It’s a starting point,” he said of the concept’s original use. “It’s compatible with working on common problems with people from other identity groups.”"

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/olufemi-taiwo-identity-politics-elite-capture.html

I've always considered #identity, much like #knowledge, an #individual's own, personal, tacit, unique attribute, evolved through a lifetime and representing the history of all social interactions they had with their environment.

I find the modern #identitytheory focus on the many #social "identities" (father, golfer, employee, etc ...) one has during the day, wrong.

In my view, these are just external #roles one assumes and plays in different #systems they are part of. They may define #what an individual is but not #who they are.

In fact, I believe that it is #who an individual is that affect #how they do #what they do in the role they are given.

I also consider the largely accepted academic #theory presented in the attached document as the direct cause of our present dysfunctional society marred by #identitypolitics.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314243231_The_Development_of_Identity_Theory

@skanman

Thanks. I had similar sobering thoughts as well while reading this article.
There is also a book by E. Fromm on the same topic he wrote in the distant 1941:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Freedom

I vividly recall my first HP Pocket Calculator with Reverse Polish Notation I had during my undergraduate studies:

https://hpmuseum.org/hp35.htm

“#Freedom is normally seen as a privilege and not a reason to be afraid. But many people did fear freedom, Ms. Müller commented on the developments in Eastern Europe. The initial euphoria of finally being set free had soon worn off and evaporated, replaced in many places by fear. #Fear, she said, “is as complicated as freedom.” Adding momentum, organized fear is at the heart of all authoritarian regimes, which try to literally raise people to be afraid.”

https://www.bosch-stiftung.de/en/news/how-authoritarian-regimes-create-climate-fear

I just hope that after a century people have smartened up and the instantaneous and global news cycle on social media can make a difference in how we react to the completely natural #fear of change:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/george-orwell-s-1940-review-of-mein-kampf

Terrific article about how the “Move fast and break things” philosophy inevitably leads to the rise of group #identity-based #totalitarian societies.
In fact, all #revolutions need a "cleanup" time to establish the "new order" and restore all the good things they have broken in the process.
https://www.noemamag.com/the-perils-of-smashing-the-past/

@Romaq @freemo

I think it might be just the people who don't like to be questioned😀

From "The Socratic Way Of Questioning":

"A #definition must be both #clear and #distinct. It must express “the perfect idea" of a thing, but if we cannot have perfect clarity, we should at least have "perfect distinctness.” so that it is not mistaken for some other thing".

In other words, if you are not able to properly describe what a thing IS, try to explain what the thing ISN'T.

Very glad I found this community. Please don't stop Question Others to Teach Ourselves😀

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59712099-the-socratic-way-of-questioning

Robert Rosen on #complexity and the emergence of a #hierarchy in #biology.

https://www.academia.edu/6576779/Rosen_and_Pattee_on_Theoretical_Biology?email_work_card=view-paper

@antlerboy
There is much more than #lust in that "black box"
https://t.co/DakXsVuqLO