On 4/24/17, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Lyberta lyberta@lyberta.net wrote:
There is a line that you may cross after which there is almost no return. If the whole world is extremist and fascist, then you fix it with extremism and terrorism.
y'know... there's a famous black civil rights activist who, when faced with a fascist / aparheid "law" he was accused of violating, responded "go ahead and arrest me: because if i comply with your law it's far worse than *anything* you could do to me by putting me in prison".
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
you know that that saying actually means that if you take someone's eye, then *yours* will be taken, right? it's *not* giving you the "right" to respond with violent force against violence: it's a *WARNING* to you that violence committed is a downward spiralling trap.
Fuck. I hate this world, I hate myself.
i have a wise friend who very kindly gave me a definition of stress. he said it's when people make a comparison between the external (perceived) world and their internal view, cannot cope with the difference... and seek to blame the EXTERNAL world. "i hate your tie!! yesss... it's the *tie's* fault!" :)
ironically i had never considered before the scenario where the "target" of the emotion/stress *was* actually your "self".
lyberta, do look up eckart tolle's story, it's very very funny (and relevant). ok ok i can't resist telling the tale: he was an academic, in some of the worst (bitchiest) back-stabbing in-fighting for funding and "status" academic environments it's possible to be in, and it was really *really* getting him down. so one day he woke up and said to himself, intending to kill himself, "i can't live with myself".
except, the academic in him went, "hang on a minute, what the hell? what the hell is the damn difference between this "I" and this "myself"?? in that stupid sentence! *I* can't live with my "self"?? wtf??" and the sudden and revelationary recognition of the incredible cognitive dissonance between two "things" - two "selfs" - in his mind which he *wasn't even aware were separate" resulted in what's known in the trade as a "kundalini whiteout".
when he came to he found he was still sitting on the bed but he could perceive things in a totally new way. i won't go into the rest of the story but he's now one of the western world's best known "spiritual masters", so his books (including audio books) are well worth reading.
And anyway something that is not widely known: when arm netbooks started becoming a thing OEMs were putting linux on them( of course). Microsoft saw a very threatening market emerging and raged hell upon them that if they kept doing this the sales of their other models would suffer due to them removing the OEM discount on the windows license.
i heard they were just out-and-out blackmailing companies. i've heard a lot of these stories.
After that they proceeded to change the model so instead of charging per machine they charge per model. So basically even if you buy e.g. a Dell Lattitude with Ubuntu preinstalled and then wipe it and replace it with an FSF approved distro YOU ARE STILL PAYING THE WINDOWS LICENSE. Now some people might disagree with me, but for me libre software is a war against oppression and is directly competing with microsoft etc( disagree as in that we do not compete but exist to fulfeel our own needs). So just for this reason, if you need to buy an x86 computer and a libreboot model is not an option it is better to buy a system76 instead of e.g. a dell or a thinkpad and then install gnu/linux on it.
Interesting observation.
agreed.
I have bought Dell laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled as it was the only model with GNU/Linux distro I could find quickly.
well, now you're aware of two other possible companies: system76 and thinkpenguin. yay!
l.
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And, just to put my cent out there, Kant and Nietzsche are also options for that reading list xP