Ironing out the Ironies of Professor Antoknee A C Kerching

Reflections on a "Feemonger"....

Genuinely saintly humanist A. C. Grayling ("Kerching")'s new university is at the moment concerned with making money to some extent.
An irony is he is very pro-atheist.
Oxford and Cambridge were granted their licenses to teach independently of the Church by the Pope and hence are sort of religious foundations in origin.
Medieval universities were never concerned in any major way with making money when they were founded and not for a long time afterwards. On the contrary they were an attempt to escape from worldliness to some degree.

By the way the writing of Antony as "Antoknee" is not just humor. It is a way of pointing out AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN that the English language NEEDS SPELLING REFORM like HUMANS NEED WATER TO LIVE!!
Why does the word KNEE have a "K" in it at all?

I wouldn't pay a penny to any educational institution whose medium was English in present form.
As I say - I would NEVER EVER teach ANYONE English in present form.

It could appear that in his consideration of the question of university funding - only Oxbridge and US Universities are mentioned. The question of university funding in the rest of the Solar System or even the rest of the Galaxy does not feature in the discussion.
He says that "Oxbridge" charges too little and is only charging such a small amount because it is still officially state-funded etc.
Hence he undermines the idea of state higher education across the board.

By the way - the education of children and the question of philosophy at school don't seem of great importance either.

Not a lot of people know this.....

HOMO HABILIS, HOMO ERECTUS, HOMO SAPIENS....

These are LATIN terms.

In English they could be rendered as MAN SKILFUL, MAN ERECT, MAN WISE...

Note that the Latin terms maintain the SEPARATION of the elements involved. ....

The (more Germanic) constructions

"homosexuality" "psychopathology" "neuroscience" "psychotherapy" "psychiatry"........

.....include TWO elements combined into ONE word.

In my opinion, there are often TWO elements that CANNOT be combined in any way - and hence certainly not into ONE word in a healthy way.

(Germanic languages supposedly are more amenable to science due to this facility with SYNTHETIC language - id est combining concepts or words into ONE word. Whilst this can be helpful it can perhaps lead to major conceptual error in my opinion.....).....

Language does matter.

To take "homosexuality" - this comes from the GREEK "homo" = "same" + "sexuality" etc.


By the way, "homo" is LATIN for "[hu]man".
And "homo" is GREEK for "same, equal, like, similar" (Opposite of "Hetero" - "different").

[Possible sauce :) of confusion.]

T.B.C.

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All of which reminds me of the "KISS" principle.....

K.I.S.S. "Keep It Simple, Son" - is often a good principle. :D

Simplicity should not be a pejorative element in things necessarily.....

"Keep things as simple as possible - but no simpler" (Albert Einstein). Good science! ......

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(Incidentally, one can't help see the similarity between the phenomenon of "squashing" two words together into one as described above, and features of Orwell's invented dystopic language "Newspeak"......)...

Sex Worker Pride Marches.

I have never ever been to a "Gay Pride" march, which seems to be one of the only regular
festivals in a modern city.
It makes me sad to reflect that Gay Pride marches are one of the few regular and prominent festivals that exist in modern cities.

I never ever attend - for various reasons.

Sex workers are an even more ubiquitous and even more necessary part of the world than homosexuality.
But when will we have regular Sex Worker Pride Marches to defend and celebrate sex workers?

Full legalization of sex work is the way forward.
No consensual sex acts should be illegal.
This is after all the same principle that allowed for the legalization of homosexuality.
This principle that no consenting sex act should be prohibited is after all the principle that allows many people to tolerate the behavior of homosexuality.
It is applicable a fortiori in the case of sex work.

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I.U.S.W.

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF SEX WORKERS

www.iusw.org

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It is a measure of how totally and utterly (metaphorically) sick our "society" is that a "Heterosexual Pride March" would probably be a) banned as pornography and b) poorly supported and, c) condemned as discriminatory.

Because of the encroachment and oppressive domination of some misguided forms of feminism and the ideology of homosexual rights, it seems to be that Heterosexual Pride Marches are maybe even needed, such is the battering that mere normality has been forced to take.

Yes, I am for full toleration of homosexuality but I am against "Gay Pride" marches as I feel that they are an imposition of a minority's behaviour onto society as a whole.
I feel that Gay Pride marches are an example of a tyranny of a minority.

Why should anyone have to share in a supposed pride in a behaviour that they may not approve of?
It is perfectly OK for gay people to feel proud of their behaviours if they want to - but why should they feel a need to impose this pride on society as a whole?
That is precisely what is done at Gay Pride marches. Homosexuality is imposed on everyone. There is no room for dissent from approval of it.

I wouldn't agree with people marching against homosexuality in supposed "Shame" marches either as I believe that homosexuality should be tolerated.
However, whilst I do believe that homosexuality should be tolerated by society and state, I do not believe it should be illegal to express disapproval of homosexuality either.

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