Samsy ( @Samsy@lemmy.ml ) 41•4 months agoPolitical science? Hmm, switch to all communities and sort for new. Have fun.
Haha, the appeal of political science to me is less about arguing with strangers about the news and more talking about broader philosophies and theories and then applying them to what we are seeing in the world. I feel like I can have a more nuanced conversation about the prisoner’s dilemma with regards to x topic, or applying philosophies like American Pragmatism to solving problems.
Talking about the news without using some of the tools political scientists use has so many emotional trip wires that it can feel like I’m just keeping up with the Kardashians. That said sometimes I just can’t help but keep up with the Kardashians.
caveman ( @caveman@lemmy.ml ) 3•4 months agoRecently the only news about politics I don’t find disgusting is done by political scientists. You you recommend a book on the topic for beginners?
dodgy_bagel ( @dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•4 months agoA book about current events or a book about the study of politics? OP indicated they were political theory focused, so a lot of the theory was written by old dead guys; not exactly news about current events.
caveman ( @caveman@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 months agoAbout the study of politics, like Plato, etc, but all in one for beginners
dodgy_bagel ( @dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•3 months agoPlato has basically nothing to do with modern politics.
You’re going to laugh, but I’m absolutely serious here: if your objective is to understand modern politics, I would start with The Prince and the Communist Manifesto.
Both of these are short, written by extremely influential figures, written for non-academic audiences, and have some amount of relevancy to current political operations. They absolutely do not explain modern politics, but they are important foundational texts. Spend 20 hours on the manifesto; 2 hours to read and 18 hours of commentary and related topics. Avoid going deeper into the communist rabbit holes. stop there. Spend 30 hours on the prince; look for college level lectures. You can spend more than 30 if you like, but don’t go for the self help guru dipshits, obviously.
Just keep in mind the target audences and the potential bias the two authors bring to the table.
After those two, I want you to read On Liberty and read up on John Locke’s social contract theory. Those four works will get you a lot of milage.
caveman ( @caveman@lemmy.ml ) 1•3 months agoI’ve read a good part of Communist manifesto and found it interesting. The fascist Manifesto is very similar to it. I found very weird that communists are against fascists, given that their manifestos are so similar.
Depends on what you’re wanting to focus on, but a great start would be Rules for Rulers by Arnold Meltsner, Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner, CIA: legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner, confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins are some that I started early.
CGP Grey did a great job synthesizing Rules for Rulers on YouTube as well.
Also a big think video Why Sociopaths Rise to Power
Also Veritasium has a great video on game theory
Hope that helps!
caveman ( @caveman@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 months agoEconomic hit man I read already and it’s good. Another nice one that I’ve read was “Silk roads” from Peter Frankopan
navigatron ( @navigatron@beehaw.org ) 3•4 months agoIs American Pragmatism a thing? If you explain it to me, will I feel better about myself?
“You can philosophize over how many fairies fit on a toadstool all day, but if it won’t help anything, what’s the point?”
If you’re talking politics, you need to take a step back and ask how useful your questions are. It may be tempting to try solving a conflict that has a long history by finding out “who started it”, but if the answer would yield no progress in the peace process, it would be a better use of time and energy to focus on other discussions.
I’ve used it as an economic philosophy as well. Instead of looking at capitalism and socialism as ideologies to guide thought, look at them as tools to an end. Identify your goals for society (more educated populace, lower infant mortality, greater freedom of the press, etc.) and then look at what different perspectives bring for solutions. Sometimes you may find letting a free market take it’s course is an answer. Sometimes you may find deep regulation or nationalization is the answer.
When this philosophy is applied to something more personal like religion, it would ask “is the religion that you are in helping you or hindering you?” If someone’s religion gives them immense guilt and depression, it would be worth it to consider something else. If an alcoholic finds peace in a Mormon Temple, then it might just be what they need. It’s a pretty chill philosophy when it comes to religion.
navigatron ( @navigatron@beehaw.org ) 3•4 months agoThank you, that’s an excellent read! This reminds me of the “expected value of perfect information” - sometimes it is worthwhile to answer a question, and sometimes it isn’t. Every once in a while I find myself in an engineering call discussing a minor problem, and I run the numbers to see if the change we are discussing is even worth talking about. One time the combined salaries of the people on the call had already outpaced the cost savings of the change over the next 10 years. We quickly stopped that discussion lol
Track_Shovel ( @Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ) English2•4 months agoLmao.
Try talking soil science with gardeners and permaculture geeks.
hydroptic ( @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ) 5•4 months agoThat’s how I browse (all & scaled or all & new) and I’m a CS nerd. To make the experience less annoying I’ve blocked a bunch of communities mainly because they’re not interesting to me (there’s a lot of anime and/or porn communities, fucking hell), but it’s generally a nice experience – I can run into all kinds of things that I hadn’t heard of before. I haven’t even gotten traumatized yet! Shame the only way to filter the feed is to block communities, but eh
Sprokes ( @Sprokes@jlai.lu ) 4•4 months agoWhat am I doing wrong? I never get any anime content nor porn.
Pistcow ( @Pistcow@lemm.ee ) 5•4 months agoI like Sync because you can block instances or keywords.
Paradachshund ( @Paradachshund@lemmy.today ) 22•4 months agoI’m glad you’re here. Now there are at least two of us!
TaintPuncher ( @TaintPuncher@lemmy.ml ) 20•4 months agoI’ll have you know that I wrote a semi-functional webpage in HTML when I was in college 😎
Pistcow ( @Pistcow@lemm.ee ) 9•4 months agoMy Angelfire page is still up and running.
e$tGyr#J2pqM8v ( @96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl ) 20•4 months agoNot a programmer either, nurse in a psychiatric hospital. But I am interested in FOSS and web 3.0.
☭ SaltyIceteaMaker ☭ ( @SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 2•3 months agoWorking in a psychiatric hospital and spending your free time in another
nossaquesapao ( @nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ) 19•4 months agoBring on the political science and jazz posts! Would love to see them around.
redcalcium ( @redcalcium@lemmy.institute ) 18•4 months agoPython? Where? All I see is people praising Rust here. Also, Ubuntu? That’s the most hated Linux distro on Lemmy.
So this supports my point completely. No fuckin clue what you’re saying.
Steal Wool ( @h3mlocke@lemm.ee ) English6•4 months agoGottem
Zoot ( @Zoot@reddthat.com ) 5•4 months agoDon’t worry, you’ll learn soon enough
swab148 ( @swab148@startrek.website ) 13•4 months agoHey, I studied jazz too! Now I’m working on becoming a sysadmin lol
Manucode ( @manucode@feddit.de ) 12•4 months agoUns Deutsche gibt’s auch noch.
Norgur ( @norgur@discuss.tchncs.de ) 6•4 months agoDieser Kommentarebereich…
neo ( @neo@feddit.de ) 8•4 months agoist jetzt QUELLOFFEN!
MonkderZweite ( @MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ) 1•4 months agoWas ist damit immer? Deutsche sind bei Software eher Konservativ.
Sarcasmo220 ( @Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml ) 11•4 months agoI’m not a programmer either, but I am a Linux and open source user so I can at least wade through the waters, lol
Aggravationstation ( @Aggravationstation@lemmy.ml ) 10•4 months agoI sir am a Linux engineer and resent your insinuation that I’m a programmer.
baseless_discourse ( @baseless_discourse@mander.xyz ) 9•4 months agoTo make things more confusing, I program, I use linux, and I talk about all of these stuff, but I am not a programmer :p .
Jorgelino ( @Jorgelino@lemmy.ml ) 1•4 months agoIf you program you’re a programmer. No need to do it professionally to call yourself that.
dodgy_bagel ( @dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 8•4 months agoI studied both political science and programming.
I can’t think of a good joke, but I wanted to share.
Aarkon ( @Aarkon@feddit.de ) 8•4 months agoFor representational reasons, I miss the logo of the Rust programming language, but I have the hint of an idea why the creator of the meme didn’t put it in there.
survivalmachine ( @survivalmachine@beehaw.org ) 2•4 months agowait, did they change the Rust logo? What happened?
Aarkon ( @Aarkon@feddit.de ) 4•4 months agoI’m referring to this controversy, just in case that wasn’t obvious: https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/rust_foundation_apologizes_trademark_policy/
ResoluteCatnap ( @ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml ) English7•4 months agoYou will assimilate
Snot Flickerman ( @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English6•4 months agopolitical science and jazz
Theodor Adorno, is that you?
Hell yea I love a good wiki deep dive
I am actually writing an analysis of the music industry and counter culture responses with regards to AI and the future of music! I’m calling it musical humanism. 🎷 🎺 🎸
Hammerheart ( @Hammerheart@programming.dev ) 3•4 months agoI would LOVE to read that
Snot Flickerman ( @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English1•4 months agoThen seriously, check Adorno and his writings on Jazz. He was pretty early in calling out capitalism as diluting and anodizing music, (something I’m not entirely sure I agree with) and in my experience his writings are often cited when discussing how music is packaged and marketed.