art and technology

The word art, comes from the word tech(nology). It's not the other way around. 

Don't go whining about art literacy and the decay of old media if you haven't grasped the basic structure of the concept. 

As a corollary, "liberal arts & sciences" means "political technologies and epistemology". 

deontic / aretaic dating

I think it's time to put a stop to the myth that stereotype female fantasies of wanting to be taken care of and supported are any less disgusting than stereotype male fantasies of wanting to be fucked. 

Both result from tendencies necessary at this point in history, for the continuation of the species. Neither is intrinsically dysfunctional, until presented as an uninvited obligation.

So for example, in strongly deontic (duty oriented) often traditional, systems ... the behaviours are formalised as duties, and become statutes to be enforced. This often defines conservatism.

In contrast, strongly aretaic (virtue oriented) systems are more coherent with the notions of individual rights, and libertarianism. 

Presentism and Originalism in Malaysia

Ah, this is a useful dichotomy. In governance and law there is presentism and orginalism

About Malaysian public policy, I am generally a presentist

Because Malaysian law is intrinsically tied up with theism, I have to also point out that I am a materialist ( compatiblist : in viewing all spiritual experience as a variety of material experience )

So in politics, broadly

- originalists view: presentists as shallow

- presentists view: originalists as delulu

Politics is the PRACTICAL consensus