Daffy Duck and David G:

Yawnnn...is it time to turn the light out Daddy?

Diver Dan, what a shame you haven't got the mental horsepower to realize the importance of what Professor Boyle is saying.

If you have nothing to contribute, why not say nothing?

George G:

...I laugh George. Only a few days ago I was roundly criticized for raising the subject of negative implications of atomic warfare and its relationship to the Ethical question of honesty, which was comment “on-topic”. That proves the point I am not averse to discussing the subject of Politics and Ethics under the correct circumstances of topical discussion.

...When you are off-topic George, you are “fair game”! I would further suggest to you George, that you Google-up "Fixed Fantasy" and honestly assess yourself for qualification.

>>If you have nothing to contribute, why not say nothing?<<

A case of do as I say not as I do, eh David?

Cheers,

Tony

David G:

...Oops Dave, sorry, called you George: A subliminal/Freudian slip. Are you related to George Orwell per chance Dave?

This is an interesting topic, which has unfortunately been hijacked by some neo-Marxists (David G & Daffy Duck). The obsession with power relations is a Marxist idea, one that contaminates subject matter today. All issues, problems are reduced to power relations and "oppression." Let us put aside their resentment (a classic neo-Marxist lens) for a second and examine Mr Virsik's problem for what it is.

It's an interesting subject. I believe it goes back to at least Plato (as George mentions), and the German Idealists grappled with these issues in detail. For the Idealists the mind interprets everything. The physical world is only a re-presentation in the guise of 'mental images' formed by the mind. If mathematics and other sciences are true, and not 'idealist,' then we human beings possess a faculty that sees "things in-themselves." This view presupposes that the world has facts about it despite human interpretation. But, what could we know of the world without our interpretations? How do you get outside your own head when interpreting phenomena?

I believe that we interpret the world with all our prejudices, hidden desires, and subterranean emotions. There are no things in-themselves; only human interpretations. This is why you get neo-Marxists interpreting the world through their own private rage. Deep down in their souls is a thorough dissatisfaction with the world, and this is manifested in their neo-Marxist rants against whatever power structure has their goat on a given day. Conversely, it is also why another person can see the same phenomena but interpret it differently, i.e. without the pent up resentment.