05-07-2020, 05:45 PM
** 07-May-2020 World View: Progress
Apparently your reading comprehension is so low that you can't
understand a simple explanation. I'll try it again, using shorter
words.
No one is saying that progress does not exist. Each example of
progress is a given. The question is how to explain why that
progress occurs.
You're attributing the progress to some sort of magical hocus-pocus
"arrow of progress" that you and Strauss dreamed up. Why do I call it
magical? Because you haven't given any internal explanation of how
this arrow works, and how it creates progress. You might as well just
say that your arrow of progress occurs in the stars, along with the
rest of your astrology.
So what I was trying to do was to explain to you the mechanism that
causes progress. Why did Napoleon's code come into being at exactly
that time, and why not a century earlier or later? The answer to that
question is to look to technology. That code was created soon after
the US constitution, and the US constitution had become extremely well
known throughout Europe at that time. That was possible because of
technological improvements in transportation from America and
communication across Europe. A century earlier, even if someone
thought of that code, there was no communication technology to sell it
to the public at that time, or to enforce it.
I'm no expert on Napoleon's code, so some details of that explanation
may be wrong, but that explanation is in the right direction.
You, by contrast, have given no details or explanation at all. How
does your arrow work? What propels it through the air? Maybe you're
imagining some sort of Cupid who shot an arrow into Napoleon so he'd
produce his code. Where you have hocus-pocus, I provide analysis and
explanations. That's the difference between us. And it's the
difference between S&H-Astrology, which is all hocus-pocus, versus
Generational Dynamics, which is analytical and fact-based.
In fact, you never produce any analysis or facts. You just resort to
name-calling and hocus-pocus. You are completely vacuous.
If you'd like to do something constructive for yourself, then go
through your list of progress examples and provide an explanation for
each one why it occurred at the time it did. Try to go beyond
hocus-pocus to look for the real reason. You'll find that the only
explanation is technology.
Of which, by your own admission, you don't have the vaguest
understanding. That's something we can agree on.
(05-07-2020, 02:18 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: > Originally you claimed that there was no non-cyclical progress
> outside of technology. Each example of non cyclical progress
> outside of technology proves you wrong. I am not close to running
> out of them. I can link them all to the arrow of progress. In
> order to deny the arrow of progress exists, you have to deny each
> of the various forms of progress such as the Code of Napoleon
> exists. In which case, you have to admit to either having an
> ideological bias, or being an idiot.
Apparently your reading comprehension is so low that you can't
understand a simple explanation. I'll try it again, using shorter
words.
No one is saying that progress does not exist. Each example of
progress is a given. The question is how to explain why that
progress occurs.
You're attributing the progress to some sort of magical hocus-pocus
"arrow of progress" that you and Strauss dreamed up. Why do I call it
magical? Because you haven't given any internal explanation of how
this arrow works, and how it creates progress. You might as well just
say that your arrow of progress occurs in the stars, along with the
rest of your astrology.
So what I was trying to do was to explain to you the mechanism that
causes progress. Why did Napoleon's code come into being at exactly
that time, and why not a century earlier or later? The answer to that
question is to look to technology. That code was created soon after
the US constitution, and the US constitution had become extremely well
known throughout Europe at that time. That was possible because of
technological improvements in transportation from America and
communication across Europe. A century earlier, even if someone
thought of that code, there was no communication technology to sell it
to the public at that time, or to enforce it.
I'm no expert on Napoleon's code, so some details of that explanation
may be wrong, but that explanation is in the right direction.
You, by contrast, have given no details or explanation at all. How
does your arrow work? What propels it through the air? Maybe you're
imagining some sort of Cupid who shot an arrow into Napoleon so he'd
produce his code. Where you have hocus-pocus, I provide analysis and
explanations. That's the difference between us. And it's the
difference between S&H-Astrology, which is all hocus-pocus, versus
Generational Dynamics, which is analytical and fact-based.
In fact, you never produce any analysis or facts. You just resort to
name-calling and hocus-pocus. You are completely vacuous.
If you'd like to do something constructive for yourself, then go
through your list of progress examples and provide an explanation for
each one why it occurred at the time it did. Try to go beyond
hocus-pocus to look for the real reason. You'll find that the only
explanation is technology.
(05-07-2020, 02:18 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: > I believe you call it Generational Dynamics.
Of which, by your own admission, you don't have the vaguest
understanding. That's something we can agree on.
