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Entrepreneurship, sales/marketing, skilled trades, IT, art/design, writing, there are plenty. Most jobs that require degrees are corporate hell jobs anyways. If I was serious about being a scientist perhaps I would get a degree and work as a researcher, that would be fun. As a side note, it's...

The masses are too occupied by the Technosphere or the bread and circus of everyday life, they distract themselves to their careers(middle class) or daily survival and escapism(lower class). Only the upperclass/bohemian/aristocratic elements of society seek values that lead to nihilism on one...

No. Waste of time and money unless you are going for something that *requires* the stamp of approval, like a doctor or lawyer.

Pleasure.

Havent been on this forum in a while, but this is the best things I've read here in months.

I enjoy surfing and a bit of skateboarding. Although I am intermediate level in the former, I can never hang with the STPs.

Good thread. Education in the western world has been transformed into training for the past 100 years or more. This change happened as the classical curriculum of the Great Tradition(liberal arts) was being phased out in favor of the more mass-appealing Prussian model. This is to be expected if...

Francois Rebelais

What about a mixed race person who was raised in a "white" community? Let's say a mulatto grows up in a predominantly white town in Santa Catarina. Will they have more in common with a mulatto in Cuba or some other white person in Rio de Janiero? Race is based on self-identity. I know plenty of...

The most fundamental distinction between groups, hardest to seperate. Language and literature=culture. Religion, ethnicity, and other values can have a more individual variation than languages. Race doesn't separate people as much as you think. Brazil is a highly mixed race country which is...

Many proponents of nationalism believe that we need this arbitrary authority in order for society to function from Aristotelian philosophers to Aquinas and of course Hobbes. As long those who want to live in an imposed political boundary stay out of the affairs of those who do not, I see no...

Nationalism is a joke and no, globalism which is just nationalism at the global level is not the only alternative. It's funny how people want to resort to this mode of thinking in an age where information is spread throughout the world instantly. To me it seems like these people are reactionary...

How can the swamp be drained with the federal reserve still around?

Wise words. Things which are outside your control should be let alone. I have left the cult of politics a while back.

I am fluent in Portuguese and English, having learned both growing up. I can somewhat carry myself in Spanish, although I don't find the language or culture that appealing so I'm rather lazy at it. When I was younger I attempted to learn French, which I like, but for some apparent reason never...

How? He's right. Unless you eliminate all humans, individual subjectivity and volition will always be there. It's not skepticism, it's the objective view of reality. Of course you can go against this notion which seems like your suggesting and believe in a domination based philosophy where some...

Individualism

Perhaps this is a sophisticated understanding of the brain as the physical object responsible for our cognition and how it may interpret information from the outside. But what about the limits of our conscious perception toward objects? I am not sure there is any way of verifying and expounding...

Scientism

How can you even suppose to know this?

Thanks for this.

Being able to say and think what I want and when I want.

I've read from various places and it seems to work in this manner where a types aux function is used creatively depending on the orientation of their dominant. And it's the function where people get out of their "comfort zone", including extroverts. A function in this position in someones stack...

INFJ as well.

Let everyone rule themselves.

What are some main differences? Both of these types seem to share many similarities compared to other types.

Find a sinecure job, although I can't think of any decent examples.

I agree with you on that.

Basic principles of epistemology. Intellect is based on ones ability to acquire knowledge. Because of volition, everyone will come to different judgements of such knowledge. We use reason to determine if things are true or not. Measurement is possible in the scientific and technical fields...

Intelligence isn't a quantity and not subject to objective measurement, this is based on fallacy.

Freedom. It's the value which allows all other values to flourish.

Maybe. But I could just say the costs are high degree of theft(taxes), war, and exploitation. So it's a subjective determimation. Unless you base your views outside of yourself, onto some collectivist notion like nationhood or race.

Who determines what is progress? These ideas you have about race and its statistical characteristics are purely subjective. They have no objective footing.

Yes. Identity is based on the differentiation principle. "The life of the main body" is a presupposed premise which holds that a unit is only the sum of it's parts. There is no such thing as a society without individuals. Ever been to a ghost town? It's called that for a reason. Each individual...

Race has no objective foundation linked to genetics. It's an arbitrarily category with arbitrary selected similarities. There is no pure European, Black, Asian race, or any for that matter. When you separate entities, you must be able to identify a real difference between entities and if not...

I don't see how that's possible without race being delegated to the order of aesthetics. Most peoples view of identity is that we are born into some non-voluntary, accidental category depending which nation or race we are supposedly from. This goes against the fact that identity is a subjective...

The only way racism could end is by seeing people as individuals, all different. Although this will not happen, as the majority of people have bought into the the illusion of categorical identity. BLM by its very nature does the opposite of what it's suppose to do(which I presume is ending...

That description seems to fit INTP more than INFP. Fi/Te would be more concerned about the value of ones ideas and with offers and plans to "effect" the world. Ti/Fe is all about keeping an autonomous mind and moral system and establishing harmony indirectly.

Political science especially taught in academics is mostly nonsense, just read Machiavelli's Prince and you'll have most of it covered. The whole field is basically explaining the State, its purpose, and why the individual is nothing. It takes for granted as a starting premise the Hobbesian...

Looks like the "War on Drugs" issue in public school propaganda has gotten to some.

The former. http://intpforum.com/showpost.php?p=534279&postcount=25

Exactly. All these types of things are BS. The criteria is too vague and subjective, it's essentially a way to control people.

The Remnant

There are natural restrictions(actual laws such as gravity) and man-made ones. Any of these man-made restrictions that violates one's autonomy or free association between individuals is wrong, period. This is the starting principle for morality, but freedom is not high in most peoples scales of...

People don't regard freedom as their highest value, they often fear it to the point they can't imagine a life of freedom. Not until this is resolved, humans will keep engaging the hundred of centuries perpetual cycle of war, conquest, and force. New political organization after another...

Looks like those US swimmers BS'd the robbery story. Typical of USonains(Americans) to go to some other country and think they are superior enough to get away with what they want.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-11/brazil-is-still-the-country-of-the-future .

The quietly penetrating parable.

Good to know.

Brazil and the US share this characteristic. Although I would say the US has more opportunity to express your diversity, meaning more economic freedom.