Timothy Taubes

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The Predication of Opinion Every act has its intentional object. We don’t just work. We work on something. We don’t just walk. We walk somewhere. We don’t just choose. We choose among alternatives.

The power to buy arbitrates the delicate balance between personal freedom and universal equality, a balance observed in the breach. In the process, humankind reverts to a form of cannibalism; one can feed upon a fellow human without actually consuming their flesh.

The Predication of Opinion Every act has its intentional object. We don’t just work. We work on something. We don’t just walk. We walk somewhere. We don’t just choose. We choose among alternatives.

The power to buy translates into the power of money. The latent potency of money; the power of money to buy power. In such a situation Kant’s transcendental ethics don’t work.

The Predication of Opinion Every act has its intentional object. We don’t just work. We work on something. We don’t just walk. We walk somewhere. We don’t just choose. We choose among alternatives.

It is inescapably reinforced in every aspect of life. From the moment of birth we are calibrated along a scale of property values. It comes to the fore in its extremity during elections. Election campaigns are measured by the amount of money they raise.

The Predication of Opinion Every act has its intentional object. We don’t just work. We work on something. We don’t just walk. We walk somewhere. We don’t just choose. We choose among alternatives.

Something along the lines of Kant’s categorical imperative- “Act in such a way as to be a model for others,” shepherded by a mythical guardian angel called, “the general will?”

The Predication of Opinion Every act has its intentional object. We don’t just work. We work on something. We don’t just walk. We walk somewhere. We don’t just choose. We choose among alternatives.

The intentional objects are made accessible to the public ready-made. Those norms and divergent opinions find their predication in pre-meditated motives.

The Predication of Opinion Every act has its intentional object. We don’t just work. We work on something. We don’t just walk. We walk somewhere. We don’t just choose. We choose among alternatives.

Public opinion comes in the form of an act. The act comes in the form of compliance or noncompliance. The intentional object is a formulated substantive norm, such as a code of laws or ethics.

The Predication of Opinion Every act has its intentional object. We don’t just work. We work on something. We don’t just walk. We walk somewhere. We don’t just choose. We choose among alternatives.

Our ability to choose among alternatives frees us from always choosing the same thing. This is a luxury not found in nature where existence is the eternal recurrence of the same event.

The Predication of Opinion Every act has its intentional object. We don’t just work. We work on something. We don’t just walk. We walk somewhere. We don’t just choose. We choose among alternatives.

Cultural Dementia Culture suffers a form of dementia which mimics that found amongst humans. What was once known is known no longer. It is a progressive disease that establishes itself unaware by its host.

Each advance was conceived as a consolidation informed by efficiency. Standardization of technology leads to conformity of behavior. Conformity of behavior eventually results in the loss of autonomous thinking. The loss of autonomous thinking means the re-establishment of necessity.

Cultural Dementia Culture suffers a form of dementia which mimics that found amongst humans. What was once known is known no longer. It is a progressive disease that establishes itself unaware by its host.

What the actual value of money is, what stands beneath it as collateral for the entire edifice, remains a mystery. It’s accumulation, and the power that comes with it, has a gravitational force of its own not subject to any scientific explanation. Its dispensation is a corruption of nature.

Cultural Dementia Culture suffers a form of dementia which mimics that found amongst humans. What was once known is known no longer. It is a progressive disease that establishes itself unaware by its host.

Communities grew into cities, cities into states and nations. These communities were inspired by the promise of civic unity while harboring the very mechanics that would pit human beings against each other. With the securing of property came ostentation, jealousy, and malice.

Cultural Dementia Culture suffers a form of dementia which mimics that found amongst humans. What was once known is known no longer. It is a progressive disease that establishes itself unaware by its host.

Their navigational apparatus became dysfunctional and soon humans would need instruments to guide them from point to point. Their innate attachment to the workings of the galaxies were severed. These innate attachments are still found among species in nature not subject to contingent choice.

Cultural Dementia Culture suffers a form of dementia which mimics that found amongst humans. What was once known is known no longer. It is a progressive disease that establishes itself unaware by its host.

Humans discovered they could best help themselves by helping others. A division of labor made life more productive. This was the first blow to physical independence.

Cultural Dementia Culture suffers a form of dementia which mimics that found amongst humans. What was once known is known no longer. It is a progressive disease that establishes itself unaware by its host.

Conflicts of this nature were not of a pre-existing condition but display a new relationship subject to contingency. Contingent choice is always equivocal. These intersubjective conflicts find resolution in an antagonizing state of disequilibrium where individuals are no longer equal.

Cultural Dementia Culture suffers a form of dementia which mimics that found amongst humans. What was once known is known no longer. It is a progressive disease that establishes itself unaware by its host.

Humans came to recognize that things might be other than the way they are when they became aware of their own consciousness. Self-consciousness could carry on a dialogue with itself in abstraction. Humans developed brains with the capacity to retain these abstractions.

Cultural Dementia Culture suffers a form of dementia which mimics that found amongst humans. What was once known is known no longer. It is a progressive disease that establishes itself unaware by its host.

The syntax of activity is regulated by a design not amendable. There is no deliberation because there is no choice. Choice comes with contingency; the recognition that things might be otherwise.

Cultural Dementia Culture suffers a form of dementia which mimics that found amongst humans. What was once known is known no longer. It is a progressive disease that establishes itself unaware by its host.

Or is it more on the order of zero sum? Is every gain purchased at a cost? If the symptoms of cultural dementia mimic those of humans, these questions no longer avail themselves upon our thought processes and remain undisclosed.

Cultural Dementia Culture suffers a form of dementia which mimics that found amongst humans. What was once known is known no longer. It is a progressive disease that establishes itself unaware by its host.

Civilization has gone through a series of changes that prepared humans to become an incredible receptacle of intelligence. This intelligence can be described in its broadest sense as the bestowing of form on matter.

Cultural Dementia Culture suffers a form of dementia which mimics that found amongst humans. What was once known is known no longer. It is a progressive disease that establishes itself unaware by its host.

Scientists believe to have isolated a genetic marker identifying the debilitating disease in humans, reducing the symptoms to a physiological schema. Cultural dementia can also be explained in physiological terms that span generations, centuries, and millennia.