03-06-2019, 11:00 PM
(03-01-2019, 10:45 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: *The rabbis of the time determined that it was improper for any Jew to deal bears, tigers, or lions to the Romans; those rabbis knew what was going on, and they thought it an abomination. Dealing them to the Persians was not such a problem.
Interesting, thx.
(03-02-2019, 09:41 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: It seems there are THREE camps all over the Western world, and the division combines economical and tribalism/cosmopolitanism polarisation:
-market liberals ("neoliberals") - they are waning but still exist and can sometimes strike back, as they did in France in 2017
-socialists or SJWs
-nationalist-populists, who want to restrict the market to protect national interests
S&H wrote that the libertarians would lose ground during the rest of 3T, which didn't seem to happen.
(03-02-2019, 02:15 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: 2. The Millennial Generation is much more collectivist than Boomers and X. The plutocratic agenda of most of the 3T and 4T (so far) has been effective at ensuring that life is pay-to-play... fiendishly costly for participation and low in rewards. Millennial adults may have had the worst introduction to capitalism except for the GI cohorts that entered middle childhood in the Great Depression.
Certainly. The question is what they'd have to do to change that. They seem to have a problem with the "adulting" thing.
(03-02-2019, 02:15 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Judaism is a religion, and not a race. It may be ironic, but it may be the gentiles most like the Ashkenazim by culture -- Germans and Austrians -- imposed the Holocaust. I saw the argument that the Germans hated Jews to the extent that they saw in Jews what they disliked about themselves. Czech, Hungarian, Slovak and to some extent Polish Jews often got the rap for being too... German.Who said that?
(03-02-2019, 02:15 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I see a big problem in serial marriages in which well-off men with huge amounts of money divorce their wives after they no longer resemble a Playboy centerfold.
OTOH the wives get half of his property plus alimony and in most cases the kids too.