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u/simism66 · 17 pointsr/im14andthisisdeep

Philosophy isn't simply "musing on the nature of things." I believe the field of philosophy you have in mind here is metaphysics, and, while metaphysics may be defensible in its own right, it's certainly not the only area of philosophy. One of the fields that I find particularly exciting right now is philosophy of language. A big research interest in the field is how we can go from not having genuine meaning and understanding in our practices to having it. This has been one of the trickiest problems in philosophy to date, but after Wittgenstein, philosophers have made some serious progress on the issue which is now converging with empirical science.

One of the top scientists working on the question, Michael Tomasello, who does a bunch of comparative psychology experiments with either apes or young children trying to make sense of intentionality and meaning. In his book Origins of Human Communication he draws heavily from 20th century philosophers such as Wittgenstein, H.P. Grice, and David Lewis. It is not simply that he says "Oh, I showed that these guys (who were just idly musing) turned out to be right. Yay Science!" Rather, he explicitly uses their work (mostly Grice) as models in his theorizing that helps make sense of his empirical data.

Philosophy has a history of doing things like this, charting the way for new fields of scientific study. There's also serious philosophical work to be done within existing scientific fields. Philosophy of biology and philosophy of physics are active fields, and usually the work in these fields focuses around trying to sort out difficult conceptual issues that arise in the empirical research. Typically the philosophers in these fields are experts in that scientific field, they know all of the relevant scientific literature, and often work in conjunction with scientists. It's certainly not just idle musing.

u/adrianwarp · 9 pointsr/im14andthisisdeep

hey, if you want to soak it in with some light reading, i'd suggest LOGICOMIX
http://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-An-Epic-Search-Truth/dp/1596914521/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413849778&sr=8-1&keywords=logicomix
I'm 15 and soaked it in pretty well I'd say. Enjoy!

u/definitelynotpietro · 1 pointr/im14andthisisdeep

Yrsa Daley-Ward writes similar things but with much more beautiful and profound language IMO. There's a few others to spelunk around her.

salt by Nayyirah Waheed is similar to the stuff in the OP but I think a lot better.

edit: bone by Daley-Ward is cool as hell.

u/SinApodo · 1 pointr/im14andthisisdeep

Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.

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u/Numberonenutthing · 3 pointsr/im14andthisisdeep

[It costs quite a bit if you live in England] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/ol/1505495873/ref=mw_dp_olp?ie=UTF8&condition=used)

EDIT: It costs quite a bit if you live anywhere.

u/-WhistleWhileYouLurk · 2 pointsr/im14andthisisdeep

It's Lex in his usual power suit, but it's from a run a few years ago that was aimed at bringing DC comics to a younger audience. The writer was even a children's book author: http://www.amazon.com/Lex-Luthor-Kryptonite-Caverns-Super-villains/dp/1434238962

u/DontMentionLobsters · -6 pointsr/im14andthisisdeep

#2. Because nowadays there are a lot of obese people who have to use those toilet paper grabbers like in the picture. It is kind of sad.

u/Ahaigh9877 · 5 pointsr/im14andthisisdeep

Yeah, but it feels like things are getting apocalyptically scary, and how awesome exciting terrible that it should be happening to us, in our lifetimes!

Unfortunately happily, you're right: violence of all kinds has been on a downward trend for ages.

u/Strength_Power · 5 pointsr/im14andthisisdeep

i listened to an interesting podcast episode recently. the show is Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism and the episode guest was Susanna Reiss, a professor at Univ of Hawaii being interviewed about a book she published in 2014. despite the crudeness of this meme, there's actually a lot to unpack behind the so-called War On Drugs that started decades before the 60s, during WW2 actually, and U.S. pharmaceutical companies (in competition with German and Japanese pharmaceutical companies) were active participants in the process of defining U.S. drug policy, with control of the drug trade being recognized by government institutions as a critical piece of "economic warfare".

the podcast, see episode 7 it's free

the book:

We Sell Drugs: The Alchemy of US Empire

Description:
>*This history of US-led international drug control provides new perspectives on the economic, ideological, and political foundations of a Cold War American empire. US officials assumed the helm of international drug control after World War II at a moment of unprecedented geopolitical influence embodied in the growing economic clout of its pharmaceutical industry.

>We Sell Drugs is a study grounded in the transnational geography and political economy of the coca-leaf and coca-derived commodities market stretching from Peru and Bolivia into the United States. More than a narrow biography of one famous plant and its equally famous derivative products—Coca-Cola and cocaine—this book situates these commodities within the larger landscape of drug production and consumption. Examining efforts to control the circuits through which coca traveled, Suzanna Reiss provides a geographic and legal basis for considering the historical construction of designations of legality and illegality.

>The book also argues that the legal status of any given drug is largely premised on who grew, manufactured, distributed, and consumed it and not on the qualities of the drug itself. Drug control is a powerful tool for ordering international trade, national economies, and society’s habits and daily lives.

>In a historical landscape animated by struggles over political economy, national autonomy, hegemony, and racial equality, We Sell Drugs insists on the socio-historical underpinnings of designations of legality to explore how drug control became a major weapon in asserting control of domestic and international affairs.

Top review:
>Reiss covers the hyphen in the US "War on Drugs," 1940-1960. This is the period between the initial legislating of US drug attitudes, policies, and laws, 1900-1940, and the full-blown, billion-dollar-a-day "War on Drugs," 1970-present. Needless to say, this period is dominated by World War II. Rapid transformation of the existing regulations and market was imperative to supply escalating US and Allied demand for all drugs, including cocaine, and, equally important, to deny the Axis powers these same drugs. "Fortunately," this was all accomplished so as to expand the international reach of US drug attitudes, policies, and laws; and, equally important, to expand the competitive advantages of US pharmaceutical firms during the Cold War and beyond.
Within this 1940-1960 period, Reiss focuses almost exclusively on the political economy of coca leaves and cocaine, Coca-Cola, US relations with Peru and Bolivia, and the rise of the synthetic drug industry during and after World War II. She also makes clear how the pre-World War II regulatory and market regime were refined and expanded internationally so as to provide a "firm" basis for the "War on Drugs" after Nixon declared it in 1969.
The principal criticism of We Sell Drugs is that it is, perhaps, too ambitious. It tries to show how legal and illegal drugs were important aspects of large swaths of the US and international political economy, 1940-1960. While true, the information and the relationships are, at times, overwhelming.

u/lee61 · 1 pointr/im14andthisisdeep

>War is a result of the ruling classes conspiring to set the masses of their nations against each other while they sip champagne together and laugh."

I think the point is that war is another tool of diplomacy and at the end of day don't really affect those in power. This picture can almost be a 1:1 comparison when talking about countries that experience civil war. After the war is over you will normally see that the new ruling class would still keep previous rulers.

>Think also about how many brutal dictators and fanatics act in what can only be described in blatantly evil ways.

Dictatorships tend to be evil not because people are evil. It's because to stay in power in a dictatorship, you have to give benefits to a small coalition. This picture hits closer to home in countries and nations that have or had a small coalition.

> You think that every time they decide to go to war against them it's merely a lark, that they're secretly dining together behind the scenes while the stupid masses duke it out? You think they're all a bunch of bloodthirsty sociopaths who enjoy sending people to war, that it doesn't weigh on any of their consciences at all?

I think the point is to show that soldiers, especially in small coalition countries, tend to be stepping stones in a larger game they don't really have much play in.

Here is great book that gives historical context and examples.

If you aren't a fan of reading then here's a great video that is based off the book