Posts by Riddley Walker
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Muldoon blog. Later that day sometime in April
Peters called whining about sailors being tasteless brutes with no respect for expensive suits or hairdos.
Feel I'm on to something with sort of big pipe thing but keeping getting Winnie popping to mind. Pretty sure MacIntyre popped in too.
Had bad dream about a bunch of university types taking over my office and floating all sorts of crap about the place as if it were haunted. Birch was grining in the corner and for some reason my knees wouldn't move.
Woke up in sweat with smirnoff spilt all over lap. That fine young lad Wayne Anderson singing a Sinatra number on the wireless. -
no i take that back. Seddon didn't look so hot.
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oh look everyone was hot
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fair points 81st.
of course you're right that behaviourism doesn't offer a complete understanding, my point was more that it does have some useful contributions that are often dismissed out of ignorance and numberiphobia (though obviously not in your case).in terms of the political extrapolations of behaviourism i would agree that much of it was adopted by the right (probably because of the parsimony of much of theory, which made for nice simplistic misinterpretations). the same could be said for post-modernism, which while intended to be an anti-elitist tool was soon co-opted as a justification for laissez faire governmental non-intervention and abdication of State responsibility for the welfare of its citizens.
radical behaviourism's focus on the significance of the environment however, was initially asserted as an argument for the necessity of socialism and State responsibility for ensuring its citizens lived in an environment conducive to flourishing. this was developed more in Skinner's appalling eutopian novel Walden 2 for example. of course it was mad, controlling, and somewhat redolent of eugenicism, so didn't really fly much in the Land of the Free.
but anyway, no big thing. i have no idea who the blessings of advertising can best be attributed to.
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easy to imagine how a developmental disorder could produce individuals without such an awareness [that that killing other members of our species is a taboo act]
we don't even have to imagine Joseph Mengele, Pol Pot or Idi Amin. each of these people likely did have some kind of developmental disorder but i'm not sure it was of the pervasive neurological nature you refer to. PDDs are neither sufficient nor necessary conditions for Cho's behaviour. neither is capitalism ;)
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Muldoon Blog: 26 April
Polished off last of the smirnoff Peters left in my pants pocket.
Told Birchy he can have his fangled Wage Freeze as long as he doesn't keep interrupting my morning sessions.
Had a thought in the early hours of something big, but bugger me if I can remember. Something big, really Big... -
looks like you got it ok
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if you want to make a word bold:
type 2 asterisks ( * ) before it, and another 2 after the word, it will then come out bold when you post.
if you want to make a word italic:
type 2 underscores ( _ ) before it, and another 2 after the word, it will come out in italics when you post.firefox and safari are pretty standard and i think RB is a mac man so i think your software should work ok.
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you using 2 asterisks either side of a word for bold,
you using 2 underscores either side of a word for italics? -
and in the end the words come back.
i'm not sure if that's a blessing or a curse.