ec2-18-117-81-240.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com | ToothyWiki | RecentChanges | Login | Webcomic Life has stripped all your illusions away. You're completely pragmatic, a total cynic. And it's doing your head in. Apathy is on the rise and you really wish you weren't part of that statistic. You want to figure out how the world could be a better place. Well now's your chance!
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Ok, here's a challenge, if you'd like to have a go at proving the value of applied cynicism. /Friendship?. What do people really mean when they used the word "friend"? What rights, roles or responsibilities do they imply? Does it exist? Should it exist? Why does it exist?
MaintainMe - this seems like the sort of page that should exist elsewhere. Does it?
True... I just wanted to create an area focused on finding practical solutions to problems rather than just moaning about them :P - CorkScrew
It's called Parliament. Stand for election. You won't get a coherent answer out of ToothyWiki! ^_^ --Requiem
Radio 4. 8pm. Fridays. Try to ignore the political points scoring. --Edith
MaintainMe:Delete (this page and its subpages are utterly pointless and a prime example of everything that is despicably wrong with CambridgeUniversity; in fact, one shouldn't ever dare open one's mouth on a political matter unless one has devoted a great deal of time to studying it in depth first, lest one give voice to such proposals as a US/British? takeover of a country whose current government came to power due to a race-motivated revolt against a post-colonial white minority government. See unsigned comments in /Zimbabwe for more clarification.)
Pallando disagrees. People hold uninformed opinions anyway. The process of straightening them out enough to put down in a linear format, and possibly going off to do some research when challenged on points, is a positive thing that results in more coherent opinions. The 'top down' theory of knowledge transmission, where only the most knowledgeable speak, and their acolytes learn then pass the sacred words on, is not the only model. A 'grass root' more peer-2-peer approach also has benefits.
I don't see a willingness to be discuss things theoretically that the participants likely will never get to affect or a willingness to brainstorm by putting up radical and unworkable ideas as a bad thing. Why do you find it despicable? Given the number of Cambridge graduates who end up in the foreign and diplomatic service, I'd have thought anything that leads eventaully to better ideas should be praise. Surely it is a better attitude than people who don't want to think at all? Or people who feel that the amount of thought they can spend during their life is desperately limited, and so must be saved up for serious uses. --DR
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