GiorgioPerlasca

@ GiorgioPerlasca @lemmy.ml

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12h ago

Explain that
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GiorgioPerlasca @lemmy.ml 12h ago
Yeah, they are creating many "Reddit moments" here on Lemmy

12h ago

‘Spies inside the Holy See’: Report reveals US espionage campaign targeting Pope Leo XIV

Great job by Ken Klippenstein as usual. After Snowden leaks and Wikileaks in general, USA spying the Pope is not surprising.

13h ago

What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

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GiorgioPerlasca @lemmy.ml 13h ago

Many post-Soviet countries migrated from Soviet-style education to the standardized Bologna process ones. The quality of education in those countries dropped sharply. Many professors resisted the Bologna process and were able to form cultured students.

In Italy there was a similar process, where they migrated from an education system that forced you to write essays to one where you put a check into the right answer. The difference has deep psychological consequences. In one case, the possibilities are infinite, you can write anything you want, even draw. In the other case, there are four possible choices and you pick the one that sounds more realistic.

You can find more information here: https://frankfurtrights.com/Books/Details/unaccomplished-utopia-13358364

13h ago

What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

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GiorgioPerlasca @lemmy.ml 13h ago

Religion is tricky. Most people search for meaning in life, and religions are an answer to that need.

But linking religion to nations is the root of evil. Not being Catholic in Italy will cause you a lot of headaches, for example, yet you should be able to choose any religion you like and follow it freely.

So I would say the real issue is the interplay between religion and power, and discrimination on religious grounds.

13h ago

What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

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GiorgioPerlasca @lemmy.ml 13h ago

From a friend of mine who built a house in Southern Italy some years ago.

You can also find numbers on the Internet, see basic construction cost in Bulgaria here: https://arch-pfoertner.com/en/blog/bulgaria-vs-spain-building-costs

14h ago

What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

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GiorgioPerlasca @lemmy.ml 14h ago

The car is a tool to move yourself and your family/friends from place A to place B. But James Bond, Batman, rap videos made a status symbol of it. They created a modern mythology around it.

The transformation of the automobile from a means of transport into a luminous totem of status is a near-perfect case study of what Pierre Bourdieu theorised as the conversion and misrecognition of capital.

Bourdieu argued that capital presents itself in three fundamental guises: economic capital (money, assets), cultural capital (knowledge, taste, credentials), and social capital (networks, group membership). These are not static silos; they are constantly converted into one another to legitimise and reproduce social hierarchies. The car, in its purest state, is merely objectified economic capital, a purchased good with a clear use-value: to move from A to B. But the moment it enters the cultural field, it is inscribed with meaning, and it becomes a vehicle for symbolic capital, which Bourdieu defined as the form the other capitals take when they are perceived and recognised as legitimate.

https://archive.org/stream/bourdieu-the-forms-of-capital-1/Bourdieu%20The%20Forms%20of%20Capital-1_djvu.txt

14h ago

What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

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GiorgioPerlasca @lemmy.ml 14h ago

Just to get the context. Are you writing about the United States of America, some other countries or the West in general?

A related controversial topic related to education is the Bologna Process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_Process

14h ago

What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

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GiorgioPerlasca @lemmy.ml 14h ago

Value is how much socially necessary labor it actually took to build and maintain that house: materials, construction work, infrastructure, etc. It’s the real human effort crystallized in the building.

Price is what they slap on it in the market, which can be wildly disconnected from its actual value. In housing, price gets inflated by speculation, land monopolies, credit bubbles, location hype, and landlord parasites treating homes as investment vehicles to extract rent.

So you might have a crumbling flat that cost relatively little labor to build 40 years ago, but because it's in a "desirable area" with a housing shortage artificially maintained by capital, its price skyrockets. That is a socially enforced ransom, not the value.

https://open.oregonstate.education/sociologicaltheory/chapter/value-price-and-profit/

15h ago

What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?

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GiorgioPerlasca @lemmy.ml 15h ago

The real estate market. In many countries, the value of labor and materials necessary to build a house is about ~~30 to 40~~ 40 to 120 thousand euros. Everything else is speculation.

Edit. Initially I put 30 to 40 thousand euros.

15h ago

And the other is an image of some tanks

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GiorgioPerlasca @lemmy.ml 15h ago

I heard another version. According to that version, the man was a former soldier who recognized the tank model and wanted to know where was it built and who were inside it.

2d ago

Libs be like

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GiorgioPerlasca @lemmy.ml 2d ago

In a declassified document from the 1950s (exact year illegible), CIA considers the changes in the Soviet leadership, following the death of Stalin. The document begins with a somewhat surprising appraisal of Stalin.

Even in Stalin's time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by a lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist's power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely captain of a team (...)

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf