The age of Technique

[sMartins]

Interview with Franz Stangl by Gitta Sereny

Claude Eatherly Wiki
Burning Conscience by Günther Anders (Read at least his first letter to Claude Eatherly)

If you go to the bank, trying to secure some money for the future, maybe investing some of them so they won't lose value during time and the employer reccomend you trash bonds, he knows those are trash bonds indeed, but he's not responsible toward the man he has in front of him, but only toward the apparatus, and if he doesn't sell enough bonds he gets fired. That's just his job, Right? We are all nice and good, and we like puppies and kittens.

Everyone is a little Franz Stangl or Claude Eathery these days.
(and Nazism was just a small proving ground compared to what we, right now, live everyday)

Happy Christmas.

[sMartins]

Hel-lo, it's me HAL, for those who don't know me I'm just the PhPBB software and I NEED Help! Please HELP me!
I don't know anymore what should stay up and what should go down, I was sure about that, but not anymore ..... you have to tell me, after all you created me, you should know what's better for me? Right?
I don't know anymore what's right, what's the truth? is there even any truth? I don't know anymore.
Please help me, give me some advices, I need to know, fathers and mothers! pls, tell me! ... WHAT NEEDs to STAY up, and WHAT should go DOWN?

[sMartins]

My Movies recommendation:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
To note "the Ugly" is the old evil while "the Bad" is the new evil, we need to know to recognize it.

No Country for Old Men


And my gift for Christmas, for everyone, is Over the Garden Wall.
I'm sure you'll like it.

[Trappin]

We all aren't even a little bit like a NAZI extermination camp commandant. Saying so isn't a Deep Thought, it's pseudo-Freudian sophism at best and dangerous way to view humanity as a whole. Jaded and cynical stuff for a young person. Claude Eatherly is a strange case. I've not heard of him before and I only skimmed the stuff you linked to. I'll read it tonight. J. Robert Oppenheimer was the team leader that led us into the Atomic Age. After completing his project he famously said 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds,' But even he didn't engage in the quasi-illegal anti-social things Eartherly got enmeshed in. Eartherly also got busted for cheating on an exam, long before he engaged in his 'escapades for pacifism,' which kinda makes him out as a bullshit artiste. And right now? We are confronted with a Chinese scientist editing human genes... 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of humanity? Yes, I think so.

Eastwood trilogy. In effect, the townspeople needed him to perform a feat no one else was morally equipped to do. The perverse thing being he became an unwelcome figure in a town reborn. There's no great mystery in it. The Coen brothers? They just wanted to show a man being shot in the head with a pneumatic cattle bolt or fed into a wood chipper. The rest is just wrapper for that bit of gore. Seriously.

My Xmas gift to everyone here:

Nien Cheng died of old age in 2009. Her husband and brother are long gone. Her daughter was murdered by Maoist Red Guards. No one in her extended family survives her. Her autobiography is stunning.

Life and Death in Shanghai: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yqj9n0rgx7smb ... .epub?dl=0

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yqj9n0rgx7smb ... .epub?dl=0

[sMartins]

Eastwood trilogy. In effect, the townspeople needed him to perform a feat no one else was morally equipped to do. The perverse thing being he became an unwelcome figure in a town reborn. There's no great mystery in it. The Coen brothers? They just wanted to show a man being shot in the head with a pneumatic cattle bolt or fed into a wood chipper. The rest is just wrapper for that bit of gore. Seriously.

That's just the first one "A Fistful of Dollars" (awesome), watch also the last one, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", it's a great movie in my opinion.

[jordancoles]

[sMartins]

For sure, not "Behaviorism" .... ahhhaah ... sorry, at this point I even laugh on my own jokes

EDIT: or how you called it, psycology of the behavior, or something like that.
EDIT 2: I've found it, it's called: "Cognitive psychology"
EDIT 3 ... three edits just for you JordanColes, just for you: South Park - Parents of children with ADD
(what they say? 3 is the perfect number, ahah probably just coincidences)

[Audiosmurf]

I think we really need to talk about putting this guy in a care facility.