The plough really.Seleucus wrote:Civilization was built by the whip. ...
I don't disagree that shaming is not the way nor that corporeal punishment does not sometimes have a place in the life of boys but it's not in the learning process but in the socialising side.Over essentially our lifetimes the whip went out of use, and there will be consequences. One is an incredible loss for boys. Boys are in the main rambunctious. A certain portion of boys simply cannot be kept in order with attempted shaming and reasoning. While many lament the supposed mental effects a whipping will have on a boy, it ought to be rather obvious that five minutes of crying and an hour pouting is less injurious to a boy compared to the loss of his pre-school and likely most of the years of his elementary education. ...
I remember why this happened, the paedophiles.Considerable evidence also supports the claim that boys learn better from men, and girls from women, but the Anglo education system is in the area of plus 80% women teachers. ...
You think they should be roughhousing and wrestling in the classroom? I thought you said you'd whip them for this.Boys organize their social spaces differently, it is inclusive but hierarchical: think of a football team with its captain and fat kid goal keeper, girls however are cliquey and exclusive. Women teachers inevitably create female social spaces where boys have difficulty functioning. The urban classroom has no space for wrestling and roughhousing which is natural to boys, instead it suits girls who are typically more reticent and less physical... I digress. ...
I agree that the loss of rough competitive sports has hampered a few.
I haven't been running this forum since the goaturder first turned-up and I gave up moderating to respond to him.You ought to be a smart person if you've been running this forum for ten years. So...
Oh! mental processes and techniques to learn with.Did you try Google for cognitive structures? http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/ ... atter.aspx
Did you try Google Scholar for cognitive structures? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01178747
Did you note this bit? "It is never too late to develop cognitive structures. " - so race not an issue but culture once again.
The plough's better.The whip --
The plough.Civilization was built with the whip. ...
Never was much of a cheerful soul Fred.As we have already discussed, the discovery of animal training, particularly with the horse, led to the understanding of how we could train ourselves. As Nietzsche put it in Beyond good and evil, "almost everything we call higher culture‘ is based on the spiritualization and intensification of cruelty". ...
By that metric American blacks must be well civilised.Blacks have overall not gotten so much of the whip and are proportionately that much less civilizationally advanced. (And that much less neurotic if you want to look at the silver lining.)
I rarely use the term but when a spade looks like a spade.No actually. You can't see what I'm saying in plain English because you can't stop projecting your Nazi straw men, you're locked into an ideological lens where you see Nazis everywhere and can no longer hear what others are even saying. Godwin's law used to be a joke, now it's the first and only argument anyone's got. ...
Not so, historical materialist(Marxist), cultural imperialist(think my nations culture the best of a bad lot, so maybe should drop the 'imperial' bit)Where you and I differ very sharply in our thinking, to return to something you've stated two times in this discussion, is that while you are a materialist and imperialist (Marxist);
I think them all still in one mode of production and as such agree with you that psychology has a lot to do with the machinations within an aristocratic feudal system.my position is the opposite: I believe in an idealist interpretation of history: our history unfolds because of psychological reasons: you might say the Byzantines collapsed because they lost at Manzikert, I would say a malaise had overcome the society and hence they lost at Manzikert. ...
I don't give a toss what the rest of the world does, think we should stop interfering in their systems and concentrate on getting our nation in order to show it's a materially and healthier system to live by.You expect your Western culture to overrun the world, and every foreigner in your country to conform to your liberal way of living, ...
So am I but I'm also open to importing what works or what doesn't disrupt to much but insistent on also keeping what works.I'm willing to live and let live and allow others to have their unique identities and live in their traditional ways.