5 More Reasons to Hate the Phone Company

[bondwooley]

Alternate title: How to tear apart a poor village in Mexico just to sell a phone.

The title of the article that started all the ruckus appeared in the London Guardian, and was headlined, “Language at risk of dying out — the last two speakers aren’t talking.”

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Vodafone, one of the world’s largest telecoms, saw a public relations miracle in the making: Telecommunications company reunites some old neighbors, as telecommunication companies do, and by doing so saves a dying language for posterity.

None of it was true. So Vodafone paid off a town to pretend it was.

Full article at Medium

[Newest Reality]

1. Well,

Robert Anton Wilson used to say, "Reality is what you can get away with."

It has some nuances to it the way he meant it, but he seems to have been correct here.

[bondwooley]

2. Kind of like this:

Objective Reality Doesn't Exist, Quantum Experiment Shows

[Newest Reality]

3. Yes...

Well, that's been my causal bag for a long time now, but it isn't new. Only the modality of describing it seems to change over time.

Maya, illusion, etc. A network of conscious agents? We experience what we call reality via a nervous system that is primed or tuned to give us information about the survival or the organism primarily. Just as with our biases, (which are such because they tend to be transparent and we are unaware of them) filter how we experience social and other phenomena, our anthropocentric understanding of what is might merely work the same way and provide us with what has worked before, but not necessarily reality. If fact, it could be avoiding it.

Our overall, species-wide assumptions are in question here, as well as the nature of consensus reality, (which is all it might be for us currently).

I like Prof. Donald Hoffman's theory. It is deliciously radical, yet adheres to the scientific method. His book is: The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. There are several videos where he describes his view in detail on YouTube.

Here is a short talk that gives a general idea of it:

[bondwooley]

4. Personally ...

The fact that nothing really makes sense is the most sensible thing I've ever heard.

[fayhunter]

5. This is just...

... so horrible that I wish I could be shocked by it.

If anything, trump's wall should be there to keep foreigners out of Central America, not the other way around.