Uula Limanski

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One day i decided to move from Utsjoki and throw myself into the Atlantic. Now i got to Lisbon, and i'm giving my idea a second thought... The image is copyrighted by whoever created Gorillaz. Mate, i swear to you i'm not making money with it

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Some evolution for democracy

March 31st 2009 07:28
Hey all,

To give some simple examples for starters:

. you want to change your car. Would you ask your kid about advise?
. you want to cook a meal for your girl. Will you ask your rugbymen friends on what should you do?
. you're choosing a place to live in Australia. Would you ask the advise of a Frenchmen?

Please, don't try to distort the thing. I know that we can allways find a kid that dominates the unbelievable things that cars can do today; there's allways a rugbymen that know how to cook; there are some Frenchmen in Australia.

The idea behind is: when you have to take decisions on some matters, you ask the experts. Even if your kid is going to ride the car you're going to buy, he's not to take a part of the decision, or at least your going to make a ponderation on his opinions.

The same goes for the hole society. Today we elect people who sometimes is completely incapable of taking decisions in some matters, and worst, they don't even want to learn. Democracy is a good step towards a equalitarian society, but now we should start checking the problems on it.

As Nietzsche used to say, democracy is the magnification of mediocraty. In the way we're organised today, we have to admit, it's true.

So after some good discussions with my girlfriend, I got to a set of rules that should make our society rule better:

- define a "recours aux experts" following some rules to avoid oligarchies to dominate:
. the ensemble who is considered expert is the most educated 1/X of the population in a specific matter
. there are Y different domains of expertise, and a member of population cannot be a part of more of Y/Z domains of expertise.

- Harmonise the access to education (it means that if there is something that the state must be responsible of is education) so that there is no discrepancies in the meritology. Today it is easy for rich kids to talk about merit, they went to study in the best schools, so there is no competition for them..if you want to have an equal society with "recours aux experts", this is a major point.

X, Y and Z are integers that have to be less than 10:
- X have to be less than 10 to avoid that too small groups dominate society.
- Y to avoid complexity of the organisation
- Z to avoid that one person be part of all decisions, but that some people have more domains of expertise than others.

I'll try to discuss more about it later; have to go to work!

cheers.
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a nice way to simplify the explanation of the humans goal on earth.

"Take 3 things out of your pocket and i'll explain your objectives in life:

- credit card or similar
- keys of your car
- cellphone

and when i see this, i see what humans are doing on earth: they are trying to be god. What you just showed me is your best try in terms of omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience, which are the 3 characteristics of God (at least the catholics one)."

Please notice that i do not have a contradicting position with the existentialist (actually the Kierkegard's) thinking in terms of the absurdity of our existence, but still, we all have a defined goal in our lifes, even if we think we don't have.

I'm not saying either that we can't change this goal, like when you have children or any kind of idol you would die for (nation, religion, etc). But the standard operating procedure for men is to try to be as powerfull as god. I would say that children is some kind of essay for imortality in most cases, which falls as omniprecense. Idols were all broken down by Nietzsche's hammer, even if we still live following them in every place exept from Europe. (people should read Nietzsche in universitites in US and arabic countries, so that we stop killing ourselves)

take care, dont drive too fast, youre still human.

cheers.
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A great historical fact we're seeing these days, where Hegel's dialectic is being applyed to the American system. As The Economist tries to explain why they agree with state's intervention as an "expetion" to save free economy (it means, save men from themselves) we see the state as some not human, as some kind of external entity that we don't understand.

I don't know where they got their notion of state, but it seems to be the same interpretation that americans have. The state is somthing that imposes you taxes and block development.

To remind some basics on the matter: the state is the reflection of the people, it is elected, paied and thus controled by the people. That's why we all should vote, i remember you all that never care for elections.

So this times are great, and thesis-antithesis-sinthesys is being applied to all the people that thought "freedom" meant doing no matter what. Freedom is important, but you have to remember that your freedom have to pass the same "universality" test (in Kant's way of thinking ethics) as anything else. And the state (thus the society, the people) is here to garantee that you're not abusing of your freedom.

As most market people do, i'll try some futurology on the matter. Anyway, if i'm wrong all i need to do is write another post contradicting myself.. I'd say that in some 10 years we'll have a more educated American society, that will have discovered what the state is and that will have a health care system as good as french.

As we walk towards the "inevitability" of Marx's system..

cheers, have a nice weekend.
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Welcome to 1984

August 27th 2008 07:22
6 months ago the US/EU were defending Kosovos independence, while russians were claiming it was against i dont know which international law. Now its the exact oposite for Ossetia.
Do you still think their real reasons are based on "international rights"?
They must think were all stupid. For my side i think theyre clowns


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More on causality

July 22nd 2008 11:18
Well, i didn't have much time to read philosophy these last months, so i had no new subject to talk about in the blog... since i don't like posting bullshit just to fill up some pages, there were no new posts these last months. Well, after some days off at work, i have time to think about some new ideas.

These post comes from the 4th "cartesian meditation" from the book from Husserl, "Meditations cartesiennes


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Some overvaluation of language

April 16th 2008 17:28
hey all,

i'm quite tired of the way philosophy deals with language. So, a little post to complain


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Death at intervals

April 14th 2008 14:22
(inspired by the book of Jose Saramago)

And so the death went on a strike, so to use the normal words we employ today. But still, we keep on getting older. So, even if you don't die anymore, your body still gets weaker and weaker as time is still working


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Following the last post a friend of mine asked for a little explanation on the Heidegger's concept of Dasein, which is mostly the same as Husserl's "transcendental ego".

Normally people tend to think it's a tuff thing to explain, but i bet this example will help us out. Remember Newton and the story of the apple falling in his head? I bet you can't understand now why am i coming with this one, but think again


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Kick a stone

March 23rd 2008 18:43
There is a philosophical problem that have never been completely solved since Descartes, which many good men couldn't get to no final answer neither.

Its the impossibility for us to proove that the world around us really exists. To be clear and go straigh to the matter (i'm not here to tell stories), the last idea that came around to solve the matter was Husserl's "transcendental ego" and Heidegger's "Dasein", which are almost the same. They avoided studying men alone, instead they studied the men inmerged in "real", so that this problem no longer exists


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On cultural resistance

March 19th 2008 18:37
Well, some comments on the subject.

I consider cultural resistance all those events or cultural work made to avoid that some kind of rite that was common in a certain community become history


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Comment by Uula Limanski
on Transcending...

February 20th 2008 03:11
Thanks Lilla! Take care,

Uula

hehe, that's exactly the idea of the post!

sorry for the late response, i've been cleaning the blog these days, found your comment..

cheers

Comment by Uula Limanski
on What is your favorite colour?

November 7th 2007 15:27
The main interest of the post is to say that our tastes, the things we like or dislike, are defined by experiences we had in life.

I mean, imagine your dad used to listen to Sgt. Peppers when you were young so when you listen to Lucy in the sky it reminds you of your childhood.

If your tastes are defined by your experiences, this means that they can be changed anytime with new experiences you have.

And more, to develop yourself, to be "bigger" than yourself, you should avoid taking your tastes into account. They are the result of your past experiences, and, following the heidegger "way" of seeing who we are, these things do nothing but reduce our possibilities in life.

i think this post can explain the idea in a depper way

cheers

Comment by Uula Limanski
on Democracy as the magnum opus of the ordinary

October 25th 2007 11:04
But in democracy the decisions have to be taken by the people. I think it would be better to have a system where the decisions are taken by the experts on each subject.

For example, Schwarzenegger should never be able to present himself to a place in the exectuive power of a government, because he doesn't have any formation that prooves that he's able to do the job. This is not a "government by the people".

thanks for the comment! helps to develop the subject

Comment by Uula Limanski
on Consulting..

August 25th 2007 00:03
hehe,

i'm kiding, i have nothing against the job...but it is true that plenty of times you get these guys saying bullshit, and because the client don't understand nothing at all, he things the guy is good at it.

Hehe, this is about who knows more, and not about who knows well..

cheers.

Comment by Uula Limanski
on Reason as an a priori for men

August 15th 2007 15:36
Hi Damo,

yes, the post is to say that reason must "come with" men when they born, otherwise we won't be able to evolve..

The thing is that for some philosphers men come not only with reason, but with plenty of "natural values" that are with you when you born, what i consider a big mistake. As i see the world around, men are born 'empty'...

cheers.

Hey all,

thanks for all the comments!

Maybe one day we'll be able to discuss such matters without making people go insane...anyway, i think it's part of it..

Uula

Hi Damo,

i understand your point of view concerning doctors in the short term help. The thing is that after talking to some people that spend some time doing humanitarian help, i got a picture that their help was useful for little time, but no big change could be done. unless the people change their minds.

It's simple, the guy the doc just saved will be killing his opponents in a couple of months for revenge..

well, its a tuff subject.. i think sometimes there are people who really spend their time trying to do their best for the world, and there are others that do the other way round and don't think at all about this...tell this to the people who get their money by making or selling rifles around...it would be so much better if they've spent their time selling beer..

cheers.

Comment by Uula Limanski
on Broadcast yourself...

July 9th 2007 15:24
Maybe we'll converge to a "radical infinite conformity", where everyone will see the point of others and of yourself and this will be the opinion of all.

"On one hand we have etc., on the other we have etc., so the conclusion is for each one to take..."hehe

Cheers.

Hi Damo!

i agree with you when you say that these people are most of the times trying just to convince you that the way they've choosen is the good one. Like Nietzsche say, they are all trying to fool each other.

in the end, there is no moral that is the best to follow, but the things these people said helps us understanding better what it is to make decisions. It helps you out, and you can switch between any of these ethical 'systems' as you wish. And there is another good thing, it helps you understand the world, and how people think...Even if sometimes they've never read any of those guys, they're using their ideas every day.

One last time on Nietzsche: you have to create your own system yourself, or even better, leave it and discover that there is no ethical restrictions at all...who are you to say what is good or bad? it's a question of point of view, hehe

Thanks for the comment. Uula