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 @chris @CriticalCupcake No arts, no cartoon. No arts, no explaining the rest. No arts, none of the metaphorical reasoning required for scientific and especially medical advances. Instead, you get the simplistic, immediate-results thinking that results in "arts, meh". There is nothing shameful or time-wasting about a well-rounded education. I can't live without proper Healthcare. I live without arts just fine. @chris @CriticalCupcake Everything you just mentioned was also brought to you by the arts. We categorize them to make them manageable, but they're all interconnected. It's the same thing as if someone tried to claim medicine was possible without science, just because some medical methods were discovered before modern science. That you're not even understanding this shows how much you need the arts. @eyrea @CriticalCupcake Saying "Physics is arts" shows how desperatly art people are trying to say "People need us!". I am sure Isaac Newton had a lot of help from modern expressionist dancers while he discovered the Newton Laws. @chris @CriticalCupcake Well, here's some terms you might understand: if you really do live your life without the arts as you claim, you most likely have given yourself brain damage: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/reading-books-brain-chemistry.html @eyrea @CriticalCupcake Just because the base work of science and arts might overlap does not mean art was there. Or needed. Sorry.  @chris @eyrea @CriticalCupcake Admitting you and your people made no cultural contributions at all is very brave. Here's Leonardo Da Vinci with an illustration (from 1480 or so) that clearly shows the potential lift created by a helicopter design. He also built models. Leo was known to dabble in illustration and painting too. There is no science without the arts. It's not a debate. Music is mathematics in a way that mathematics couldn't even dream about all by itself. @chris @eyrea @CriticalCupcake  @chris oh I saw your wilful ignorance responses to the person correcting you. I thought you were for real sorry Chris, my bad 😂😂 @CriticalCupcake What happens next is they move Sciences next to War, feed them as well, but Sciences finishes cooking and adds seasoning before passing the food to War's table. @Fasgadh @CriticalCupcake It's not for nothing that Sciences look skeletal. Relative abundance under starvation circumstances tends to pit those fighting for scraps in artificial scarcity against each other, when it's more effective to band together in the knowledge sector to resist the forces creating that artifice to their benefit. Sciences need humanities and vice-versa. @CriticalCupcake The only thing missing from the image is the war journalists crawling around beneath the table picking up the crumbs and looking for a pat on the head from the war machine for doing their part. The tools and technologies may change a bit, but humans have not. Even if we colonize another planet we're still going to be bringing humanity along and all of its baggage.  @CriticalCupcake yeah 🤔🤔😒😒it is profitable for the rich, most children of affluence never have to get their hands bloody! @CriticalCupcake@tech.lgbt @CriticalCupcake @CriticalCupcake Normally I entirely agree but at the moment for countries like the UK and to some extent the US the defence budget is funding providng arms and equipment to Ukraine without which it will cease to exist and we will see more massacres .Not only that but Russia will be knocking on Europes door and own a number of nuclear power stations all capable of causing a far worse disaster than Chenobyl ,which would devestate europes food and water supply @Helengraham @CriticalCupcake Plus we have to make an example out of irredentist movements, otherwise things will get a lot worse in a hurry.   @normjess @CriticalCupcake in war there is often no competition but allocated work. Radar, aircraft design including jets, rockets, your microwave, all had increased speed of development. It isn’t a good thing just a fact. @normjess @CriticalCupcake I have the 1923 Encyclopedia Brittanica which is the 1911 version with several new volumes of updates. Obviously armament changes feature but aviation and vehicles show the massive changes. @JohnLoader6 @CriticalCupcake even if it were the optimal one, use one where there's no bodies @CriticalCupcake it'll take a worldwide pivot to neglect the war table. If only some countries do it I believe the rest will stay put and bully the others into submission. The Russian war on Ukraine is a good example of this, as others stated. There are historical failures that are promising change, though. The Vietnam War outcome must have grounded the USA in some fashion, as did McCarthyism consequences, and the (current?) war on drugs. actually for the US fed gov't things lke social security mediare etc are ~50% of spending, depending if you put soc security off budget (pre LBJ) or on bidget (LBJ did this iirc to hide cost of Vietnam war) This cartoon is wrong, in the sense that 2+2 = 3 is wrong but don't take my word for it: here is the Brookings, a centrist/liberal group https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-does-federal-government-spend-its-money  @CriticalCupcake war always was, and ever will be part of human nature. No one takes a dumb decision to make a war. It involves huge interests, of predominant powers, and the rising ones. As USA is loosing soft power, the new powers will appear to challenge the old ones. Was and will ever be. @CriticalCupcake people who don't understand needs to read Maquiavel and about Cesar Borgia, to better understand what happens when some things are ignored.  @CriticalCupcake Isn't it exactly what makes it funny? The hypocrisy: how USSR always pretended to be for peace, but had always been preparing for war — in the end it never got invaded, but got buried under the rubble of its inefficient economy. And while it itself is long gone, the tanks made in the Soviet Union are on the battlefield today. @CriticalCupcake Well, until the Baucus committee got involved in the Affordable Care Act, so Medicare is now more expensive than the Defense Department. Thanks, Obama! Terrific explanation of the details of this political cartoon, here: https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/ganf_yuliy.htm |
@CriticalCupcake Order:
- Healthcare
- Education
- Science
- War (Defense)
- Arts.
No Health, nothin else matters.
No Education, No science down the road.
No science, nothing matter.
No defensive capabilites, russia.
Arts, meh.