Originally Posted by Greger
Originally Posted by numan
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Ezekiel does very well in communicating his points; it is just that some boneheads (dither deliberately or unknowingly) refuse to (or cannot) assimilate his clearly expressed points.
Despite his clarity some of us boneheads simply do not agree with his points.
I still don't know why Zeeky appeared to be arguing with rporter about economics being the sole driver of military interventions (Zeek denied that he was arguing, so I went back and looked, and it appeared to me that he was arguing something). Zeke took several positions, it appeared to me, including; an absolute declaration that economics is the only motivation, complete agreement with rporter that it is a blend of motivations, and finally settling on it's mostly economics. Then he said it made no difference. Then he said it made all the difference, apparently because using ideology (undefined what ideology) is deception. I might actually agree with him, but he seems to want to argue instead of clarifying his point. Then he wandered off talking about me smoking and not having good reading comprehension.

noomie apparently gets it, however. Want to make Ezekial's point for us, nice and clear-like, noomie?

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller