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The author of this comic, u/MrWeiner of [SMBC](smbc-comics.com), stops by here sometimes and has a book coming out on open borders with Bryan Caplan: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250316960/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1250316960&linkCode=as2&tag=bryacaplwebp-20&linkId=1ed2cdfe4a1c0cd2a62e942a39f87b9d.
Hey, if you wanna understand 1+1 all you need to read is this little beauty:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica
I have not read it myself, because I am stupid, but I did read a comic book about how and why it was written: https://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-search-truth-Apostolos-Doxiadis/dp/1596914521
If I remember correctly, I believe Ring of Honor lent out a bunch of production crew to help with the show.
Allegedly (again, this is from memory of past speculation) RoH had no idea that Cody and the Bucks were going to branch off and create AEW. This led to some tension between the 2 companies. Understandable from RoH's point of view, considering they were losing the American Bullet Club contingent and helping create a rival to their own product. This could all end up being disproven, but would make for a fantastic read.
If I could make some reading suggestions:
- Have a Nice Day by Mankind (Mick Foley)
- The Squared Circle by David Shoemaker
- The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling. Great story of the history of pro wrestling. Quick, fun and informative read.
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
I don't know which age groups it's for.
Alternatively you can give them books about lots of different myths and legends. Greek mythology is great.
til that Bryan caplan wrote a ~~graphic nonfiction~~ weeb mangashit on open borders.
!ping WEEBS
ngl kinda hyped for Caplan's open borders manga thing.
Logicomix is really cute if you're looking for something fun and human.
An advisor I worked with when studying formal methods recommended it to me. I got through it in about 20 minutes, but it reminded me to be considerate of things I normally would ignore in the domains of computation.
I remember about a decade ago I had a friend who was one of those weird serial killer fascination girls. Which like, I get it a little. I like watching documentaries on cults and narrations of creepypasta on the treadmill. But she tracked down like a fan comic on Jeffrey Dahmer, My friend Dahmer, which took it to a whole new level of wtf for me.
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Like, learning about serial killers is I think sort of a sick curiousity. Trying to make them sympathetic or like, stanning them is where it gets weird.
A fun read you might want to consider is Logicomix. Don’t let the graphic novel aspect deter you, the book goes pretty deep actually.
https://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-Search-Truth-Apostolos-Doxiadis/dp/1596914521/
Announced (hinted at?) last night on her twitter with spiders. Awesome spiders.
Edit: Link to her pre-order page on Amazon from the main website. Kind of weird that the big picture doesn't take you there.
The last time Dawkins said he was writing a "children's book" he wrote "The Magic of Reality" which was mostly a science book and introduction to empiricism, but clocked in at almost 300 pages and was definitely more geared for teenagers than young kids. It was the kind of book and intelligent young person might find in a library and decide to read, but not as dumbed-down as you'd think from hearing him talk about a "children's book."
Seeing the listing for this new one, a 304 page hardcover in the 'rationalist philosophy' section at amazon, I suspect that again, he's writing what he would have enjoyed reading himself when he was 15 years old, rather than creating a true children's book for kids who wait at home for their parents to pick library books for them.
Which is why it's such a shame that, at least in America (and from what I understand many other countries) it's such a unifying position in the wrong direction. Very few positions have such bi-partisan opposition!
I know YOU didn't come here to plug this, but I have no such scruples:
Hey everyone! Check out this book: https://www.amazon.com/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316960/ref=sr_1_1
Closed border libertarians are wrong, and here's why: https://everything-voluntary.com/destruction-libertarian-ideology
Also, see Caplan: https://www.amazon.com/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316960
I've got two copies of this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Marxs-Capital-Illustrated-Introduction/dp/1608462668
It's Kapital in comic book format. It's still like 500 pages, but it's way easier to hand someone a comic book and say "read this" than it is to hand them unadulterated Marx.
Also, if you like wrestling, by gawd, buy the book this comes from. It's incredible. One of the best books ever about pro wrestling, and it's a comic book!
Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half has announced on her facebook page that she has published a book.
It's available for pre-ordering on Amazon.
I’m a 64 y/o man who went through that phase about 50 years ago, so I identify with what he’s gets going through. Hard times.
This is a bit of a weird recommendation but I’d recommend the following from Richard Dawkins;
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True https://www.amazon.com/dp/1451675046/
It won’t provide the ANSWER but it will help build a framework of understanding that he can build on.
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> People will ooh and ahh over my work, and ask if I sell my art - but they don't want to buy it themselves.
This is normal. Selling is a number game, for each 1 piece that you sell 100 people said that they were going to buy a piece. For each person that says that they are going to guy a piece, 100 people said that they like it.... and so on and on....
> They think I should set up an Etsy or some other online site filled with artists who actually went to art school and do this as their main source of income.
People from all walks of like tell everyone else what they shuold do. It's people's favorite sport.
> For me, this feels like stealing from the professionals,
uhmmm, whatever if you say so
> and if it was that good, the ones asking if I sold it would buy it or point me to someone that will.
Nope, not necessarily
> Another thing is, I make a lot of super dark paintings. Everyone is always asking me "Why is everything you make so dark?! Why can't you make something bright and cheerful?"
Again, people love to tell other people what they should or should not do.
> Because that's not how I'm feeling, Karen.
Exactly!
> I can't make something that's not me. It'll reflect in the quality because a) it'll feel like a lie and b) I'm an amateur, like I've said.
uhmmm, whatever if you say so
> I'm not claiming to be this awesome artist that my friends and family think I am. If they were artists too they'd see how poor my quality is. Anyhow, thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
uhmmm, whatever if you say so
Take a look at this book.
A few pointers:
- Most people don't know what to say when faced with art
- Most people are clueless when giving feedback
- Most people pigeonhole everyone else, so if they know you from a different walk of life, once they see your art, they don't know what to do with it.
Answer: this is a good book
The simplest argument is that open borders is significantly more efficient because supply and demand is more efficiently matched for goods, services, labor, natural resources, etc. This increased economic efficiency would double the amount of wealth on Earth.
Humans have always adapted to the technology of the time. During our hunter-gatherer days we lived in small tribes. During the age of farming we lived in feudal kingdoms. In a modern technological economy the approach that results in the highest standard of living for everyone is completely open borders. Today, we can talk to anyone on Earth in real time. We can fly from New York to Beijing in less than a day. It's cheaper to transport goods from Southeast Asia to Portland by container ship than to drive it from Seattle to Portland by truck.
As a result, we've seen enormous increases in the standard of living. There's no point in maintaining the outdated way of doing things especially because the people who have adapted slowest are the poorest people alive today. It's disruptive innovation for sure, but it's been the trend for decades/centuries for a reason. As the old cultures die, new ones form. Culture is a social construct. It's arbitrary. Taste is also arbitrary. As old people die and younger people replace them, the old cultures die with them. That includes old fashioned ideas of ethnicity and nations. There are plenty of people of the same, race, ethnicity, nationality, etc. that I can't stand. There are a ton of people of completely different races, ethnicities, and nationalities who I'm close friends with. It's a tough sell to convince me that I have to favor your old cultural dividing lines instead of my new one. This is especially the case when it's predicated on things like skin color or rejecting basic observable facts about the universe.
Oh no, I don't assume that. I assume that they are written as the result of compromise and horse-trading that is the process of politics. I believe that some provisions of these laws amplify the effects of fate in an unpleasant way and I think it would be better for America if we were to modify these.
Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith (of SMBC Comics fame) wrote this book which you may like if you're curious about the viewpoint.
And here's a great way to promote a graphic novel I enjoyed...
https://www.amazon.ca/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316960
We need immigration, no matter what these same retiring boomers have ranting against for years
The original was an essay by Milton Friedman called I, Pencil, which is referenced in the comic URL. For those who don't know, the author of this webcomic is the same person who illustrated the book Open Borders, and is active on reddit as /u/MrWeiner.
IDK about other ENFPS but I love Allie Brosh's Hyberbole and a Half blog and then book: https://www.amazon.com/Hyperbole-Half-Unfortunate-Situations-Mechanisms/dp/1451666179
If you are interested in a view of the subject from and ethics and economics basis I recommend this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316960
It is actually a graphic novel from a well loved cartoonist and economist.
Anyways, as for what this person was complaining about, no idea.
While the concept of open borders is somehow terrifying to large number of people it would actually work out really well for America if implemented. Biden should be considering steps in that direction.
Dawkins' Magic of Reality.
Or Self-Reliance by Emerson. Short and sweet and to the point.
A bit sad that the writer of this comic is a libertarian although he seems to hold his opinions for principled reasons at least.
He illustrated this "graphic nonfiction" book arguing for open borders, whose thesis is that doing so will help reduce poverty, even while assuming the global economy remains capitalist:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Borders-Science-Ethics-Immigration/dp/1250316960
I feel like I can't adequately describe how wrong it is to take a Straussian reading of Caplan on this topic (or really any topic).
If you don't believe in something you quietly say what is needed and studiously avoid the topic most of the time. You don't write a whole damn book on the topic.
This is a Professor who wrote "The Case Against Education".
He is openly an anarcho-capitalist.
He is friends with Robin Hanson (who still has a job at the same University as Caplan, even after pissing off way more people multiple times).
I also want to say that in general not taking people at their word for their professed beliefs is an anti-pattern for good discussion.
If someone says "I believe X" and everyone responds "you don't really believe X" then you can't really have productive discussion about X without first resolving whether the person actually believes it.
Caplan doesn't actively use this forum, but if you were accusing another user on here of the same thing you are accusing caplan of doing then I believe it would represent a rules violation of this forum.