Quote from: K-Dog on Oct 09, 2024, 12:33 PMI thank you for getting that far.  I understand loosing interest in 'self-help'.

I didn't lose interest in self help. I wouldn't be the man with the family and career I have today if I hadn't learned "self help" by the time I was 10 years old. Self help was needed to not be hungry. To learn how to build a log cabin alone. To learn enough to be right when others were wrong, and to then lead when the chance was offered that others might benefit from better ideas and systems and the application of science.

Quote from: K-DogI do my self help on my own time.  My point is to show that not everything about communism is bullshit. 

You demonstrated with your example that a solid self help outline doesn't necessarily have any more to do with Communism than it does with any of the belief systems, religions, cults, or recovering drug programs that use it. It is just a solid how to guide from those who weren't taught it by purpose or circumstance while growing up.

Quote from: K-DogMy opinion is there is very little bullshit.  But I read more than most people, and I have know our cultural hegemony is bullshit since September 11, 1973.  When the first terrorist attack happened.  The terrorist attack that helped to cultivated the circumstances for the second 28 years later.

Now I am lost in the maelstorm of history and its interpretation. So apparently the US wanted a Marxist out of power, was thrilled with Pinochet after he overthrew them....and that made Muslim extremists who didn't like the US (infidels) hanging out around the holy lands decide to knock down the towers 28 years later?

Religion, politics, American hegemony, and global. US peak oil in 1970 as well maybe, just for fun? Well, the butterfly effect and all that but I'll bet...real money....that you have a more solid explanation of how those 1973 butterfly wings made it all the way to Osama Bin Laden and 9/11.

Would I be right?