Past Club Discussion Notes (from phone notepad)

Let me preface this by saying I wish I had audio records of all of our meetings. Unfortunately this is not so, and all I have in writing is a few quickly typed names and ideas on my phone. Some of these may be hard to understand, but I'll post them all anyway in case they end up triggering thought in someone else's head. I have written within linear brackets [ ] next to a few notes. Writing within these brackets is not from the original note. As I am just going through all of these as I post them, I am emboldening ones which I need to ask about at the next meeting.

- The Fountainhead [Ayn Rand novel]
- Gone With The Wind
- Mirror Neurons
- Minnesota Identical Twins Project
- Definition of Culture: Everything that doesn't need to be explained
- Beyond mirror neurons, you must know how your audience thinks (ie another culture)
- Breaker Morant [1980 film, I ended up watching this, it was brilliant]
- Gallipoli [1981 film, also watched this, also brilliant]
- Atonement [I believe Evan suggested this film, I have not yet seen it]
- The Beach - Leonardo Dicaprio [I believe Evan suggested this film, I have not yet seen it]
- Waterloo [1970 film, I forget who suggested this]
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- A Confederacy of Dunces [novel, I read it over the summer. It was pretty good. Note: Not brilliant.]
- Gender Equality [hahahahahahaha... fuuckkk]
- The Lunar Society [I am unsure where this is from, although I'm pretty sure it was from a Club meeting]
- Allen Furmer writer 1930s [I spelled this incorrectly on my phone, and still have no idea who it is. Tisdall was very enthusiastic about his work. I'll have to find out.]
- All group rights are gained at the expense of other groups. All individual rights come at the expense of government. [and vice versa]
- Rule of 72 [Easy way to calculate doubling rate. I understand how it works, but am still hazy on all of it's economic implications.]
- Camel's Nose [an old Arabian proverb: "If the camel once gets his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow."]
- Government doesn't create money. It takes money. [http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN8.html#B.II]
- Hayek Capitalism [Oh how young I was...]
- Blast from the Past [1999 film, context was a discussion of the Fulda Gap. Quote: "CALVIN     What? Did the politburo just one day say - "We give up?" ADAM Yes. That's kind of how it was."]
- Alan Furst [maybe this is the 'Allen Furmer' of a bullet points up...]

And that's all I have from last year's meetings. Hopefully it will spur some thoughts or laughs.
I'll leave you with a funny one from the summer (I try to record great lines); "Well I feel bad that we didn't bring anything... other than our own alcohol."

Notes from last night's meeting. I am now taking liberty to slightly edit these since they are fresh in my mind.:

- Transformation of the female in 1960: Biology (birth control), Homemaking (vacuum), Mental Labor > Physical Labor (The one reason we will always be better than women is upper body strength. Unfortunately that no longer matters.)
- Change comes when self perception changes.
- Algorithms are the new calculus. Calculus is to physics what algorithms are to biology.
- Black Swan [See "Critical Literature" on right]


That is all,

- Jimmy