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Yep, if I had evidence, I'd post it. I regret that people thought I claim it as a fact, it wasn't literally spelled out, but this is how people understand figures of speech. My thinking got slower than writing (all ten fingers, as I said). In my experience, evidence means very little. At most...

Yes, I have no evidence that Fresco actually said that, yet I said that he said that. My mistake. I should not spread hearsay about Fresco. :oops: I can only say on my defense that I did so against very confusing allegations that modern medicine is impossible without capitalism.

Sounds too good to be true,right? Looks like 3D printers are currently used rather to create practice organs and implants for surgery, not for the process itself. So there's a lot of Google results to go through. I wonder if it was just a macabre experiment of some medical student. Corpses can't...

C'mon, it was more of a private joke. "Obsessive interest" is a medical term in autistic community. It's more like love for a subject. And this is how some most famous scientists focused on a single aspect of a problem to find the solution. They say a dash of autism is necessary for scientific...

emphasis mine *clapping* RBE is not anarchism, but it is a method of applying science and technology to social problems that actually makes anarchism a possible and obvious choice of life style.

:lol: :lol: :lol: Totalitarian anarchy is oxymoron :lol: What do you say next, atheism is a religion? :facepalm: This is about the time you admit that you don't know what TVP is. Because it is a radical new idea, one of these you have to study to understand. Armchair politology just...

Thriving in our school system is less likely, because it is extremely outdated. It is very dull compared to the rest of our culture. If you read the wonderful book "What Are Schools For?" by doctor Ron Miller, you'll see the schools are formed by outdated Christian ideas on human depravity and...

One kind of answer is #78, in the FAQ. I can understand that, because as a child I was very curious towards several scientific subjects and remained so to a large degree. The school with its ruthless mental bulimia killed in me all curiosity towards mathemathics and many other subjects, but I...

TVP does not need exactly this or that technology to have merit. Fresco says it himself, many of the designs are just projections, extrapolations of what we have today. We can't go too far designing without knowing what the future will bring. The question is, how all this and future technology...

Nah, science is somewhat of a menial labor for me. What I do is closer to philosophy. Science can not judge any values, it can only record and test data. Our current decaying civilization is specialized on "instrumental rationality", which means the know-how. However, it ignores the know-why...

Is THAT what do you say? :o Am I qualified to say what scientists and engineers already did? I hope so - they can build ocean liners, oil rigs, Olympic towns, dams, aircraft carriers, submarines... And most notably, they can build quite amazing and hi-tech buildings and artificial islands in...

There are relatively few farmers today, yet there doesn't seem to be shortage of food. In fact, the more farmers a country has, the more hunger. And even though there are relatively few engineers and scientists too, there doesn't seem to be a lack of technology around us. Why? Because the...

Quite opposite. Science can and does solve problems and extend our possibilities. Science has also a way of achieving consensus, or as close as we can get to it in reality. Any solution is good, practicality of its application is the ultimate test. And this application is based on engineering...

Use both scientific method and any of the contemporary knowledge already accumulated by science... to identify and solve problems. In application to the problems of living and housing, first we have to measure carrying capacity of the land. We have to know how much food it can produce, what is...

Truth be told, I think science itself is becoming rather institutionalized, "scientistic". Conservative journals are conservative and the government funding even more so, subconsciously preferring big and expensive projects instead of small and efficient ones, in cases such as the cold fusion...

So Prole, Vivre, it's obvious you don't share my (or Fresco's) values, opinions and yes, even beliefs. We can't communicate, because the language we have today is mostly hinting at shared values, which is what I've been doing mistakenly all the time. But there might be one thing we share. The...

I'd say capitalism distributes well only within a very specific set of boundaries. We call these boundaries "ideal competition" and "monopolistic competition", while in practice most of markets are oligopoly or monopoly. This is, because capitalism always tries to maximize monetary profit and...

I'm not going to do that either. You could learn something about the medieval Iceland and Ireland systems, which worked without a top-down enforced law and had a very low criminality. We know that, because Iceland had a lots of literature and we know the civilization was like a mad Libertarian's...

Wonderful! Finally someone understands that science and technology solves problems, not market. How do you know that? Let's try an alternate hypothesis. What if the brain, with all the advanced and primitive abilities does not decide how to behave? What if the way to behave is engrained in our...

However, this is what sociologists discovered. Weber, Durkeim, Spencer, Simmel, Touraine (1992) and others... It is called rationalization. Weber was very optimistic about rationalization, but others didn't share his opinion. The society of organized modernity (basically whole 20th century)...