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This person nails so much of what I've been trying to tell people for years.

I don't work a 9 to 5 job (being a Uni student), but thats basically what I fear will happen, Plus add in the "career this and career that" that people seemed so focused on.

It would seem that as things become more efficient and automated, people are choosing to buy more stuff rather than work less.

As someone who is technically Australian (I was born there and have a passport, but haven't lived there since I was two), I feel that I should know more than I do about Australian politics. What really throws be off is that the liberal party is less liberal than its opposition.

Liberal = conservative, liberal = Liberal. Its the little/big L rule. The Labor party are bording right of center too, so in Australia if it sounds left its right and if it sounds right its right.

Our politics is confusing, but seeing a non-Australian conservative (eg a Republican) rage against the Liberal party is always entertaining.

a bunch of arrogant racist busy-bodies meddling in their business.

Hey! Were not... um... erm...
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God damn it.

Aren't large stretches of Australia uninhabitable desert? I question whether the "second most empty country on the planet" thing is taking that into account.

Let me put it like this: 1/4 of the population live in a single city.

The country is far from full even discounting desert.

Still not sure why immigration is the issue it is.

DEY TOOK ER JERBS!!!

Welp, at least you weren't voting for the Rise Up Australia Party.

Challenge: Watch the entire video and not rage. I can't do it...

Cant... resist... fustration... rising...

We need to fight for the values of the 'silent majority'!

Argh, damn silent majority argument. Unpopular politicians just say that to feel good about themselves.

You sound as if your notion of education is churning out cogs for a machine.  That is one of the major failings of our education system, and just one example of how such a thing can be forced for the wrong reasons.

I would like to point out that I abhor the notion that the education system should be to educate for the purpose of fulfilling some role, and fully support education solely for non-economic personal reasons.

However, If someone is going to monitor that nuclear power reactor (ie generic-its-in-our-best-interest-to-take-no-risks thing), it's less risky to choose someone who has got a degree in cog churning from Government University than someone who has pursued cog churning privately for personal reasons. So a rigid, not-personal education system has its uses.

Quote from: Reelya on March 25, 2013, 03:59:07 am

I'm guessing this "true anarchy" is defined as people running around like headless chickens, going crazy and shit.

Sadly, this is the average person's immediate mental image upon hearing the word anarchy.  It's rare to have a conversation on the subject that doesn't spend the first half explaining "Would you behave like that?  Yes?  What's wrong with you?  No?  Then why do you believe everyone else would?"

I hope I have not sounded like that... (I am viewing anarchy as something where people function independently, and do not force each other to do anything, and everything else is up in the air)

The problem with that idea that SalmonGod got flustered because he was confronted with your "true anarchy", is that this "true anarchy" is something YOU made up, not a part of what's called "Anarchist political theory".

I believe that true anarchy was used here to highlight that some of SalmonGod's ideas are infact not part of whats called the "Anarchist political theory" and concepts are being added ad-hoc (If that is actually true or not, I am not going to comment on). In reality advocating a singular political theory is silly for this reason - people will just redefine it to suit them (hence why the definitions of these theories is in constant flux).

And anyway, I meant educated in pretty much the exact opposite way that you're describing.  Educated can just mean "knowledgeable", without having to mean "has a government issued diploma."  I made a pin back when I was trapped in a horrible school system and wore it around on my backpack that said "School sucks, Education rules".

Teach yourself? Be taught by a non-accredited person? If you did that it is unlikely anyone would trust you to be able to do your job though (a fair heuristic to apply, given that someone with a trusted diploma can probably do the job better than someone who just claims they can).

"I eat first and get first choice of mates" is a pretty far cry from "I bomb you anonymously from hundreds of miles away because your appearance and location indicates you may hold thoughts I disagree with."

What of the situation where the bombing took place in order to prevent a mass supression of freedom (say, that persons thoughts were of invading your country and enslaving everyone, and they potentially had the resources to do it)? War is far more complicated than you make it out to be, more than "I disagree with you".

Breastfeeding:  Lots of babies are really, really bad at it.  Like it can take half an hour to get them to latch on for the first couple weeks bad at it.  It's really common.

Have you seen a new-born lamb try to walk

Human babies know how to move about in a very similar way to each other without external stimuli. Its not upright walking, but they know how to do it.

Humans, along with other animals (because humans are animals), have instincts. Here is a nice documentry on human instincts