Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-08-2020, 01:00 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: Continuing your trend of each comment being more idiotic than the last one.

How is observing that other people have noted that progress is driven greatly by technology idiotic?  Your answer shows a vast lack of reading comprehension, and your habit of insults makes you look unprofessional.  Should I treat you like another internet partisan?  Should I expect honest, truthful and verifiable comments to get an insult as a reply?

(05-08-2020, 01:00 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: You've claimed some sort of magical "arrow of progress" in human rights.  You gave a bunch of examples in previous messages, but I can't see any of them having to do with human rights, although they're all driven by technology.

Does not the Code of Napoleon include rights?  Did I not mention how the three dictators had absolutely horrible human rights records?  Did I not mention the abolition of slavery?

Talk about really bad reading comprehension.

(05-08-2020, 01:00 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: So let's take an actual human right: The right to be safe from extrajudicial arrest.

This is generally a cyclic human right in most countries.  It's usually agreed at the beginning of the Recovery era, but during the Awakening era, in countries that have fought a tribal or racial civil war, extrajudicial arrest becomes more common, and that particular human right is diminished.

So I've given two examples of human rights.  Women's rights are generally tied to technology, but freedom from extrajudicial arrest is cyclic.  So put that into your "system" and smoke it.

I have noted a general increase in human rights since the Enlightenment, but have not claimed various cultures or various rights are in lockstep.  Asia is behind Europe in rights, for example.  Each culture might well establish different rights.  Are you claiming there is no progress in human rights since the Enlightenment?  Do you imagine there is some ‘hocus pocus’ that would keep things in lock?  Where do you get the idea that I propose lockstep?  There are enough ideas I have presented that are worth commenting on without your bringing up weird irrelevant stuff.