May 2012
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"Occupy Wall Street Has Already Created Something... →
Noam Chomsky says the Occupy movement has helped rebuild class solidarity and communities of mutual support on a level unseen since the time of the Great Depression. “The Occupy movement spontaneously created something that doesn’t really exist in the country: communities of mutual support, cooperation, open spaces for discussion … just people doing things and helping each...
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Libertarians: "Parents? I don't have any parents.... →
“Society? There’s no such thing as society. There’s only what I want right now, which is the ultimate good in my universe. “
[on the term “nanny-state”] “It’s sexist as hell. Anti-feminist at its very core. It says that the concerns that we most identify with mothers — cleaning up your crap, minding your manners, not annoying other people,...
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A timely piece on the sprawling power of American... →
“limitless, secret surveillance, and torture, and due-process-free and oversight-less citizen assassinations ordered in the dark, and indefinite detention, and extra-judicial killings carried out by drones…. …the question Caesar posed — when a future malevolent leader, “with this precedent before him,” shall invoke this newly created power in malignant ways, “who shall limit...
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April 2012
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“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
– Gloria Vanderbilt
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Watch“We Don’t Live in a Free Country”: Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Gov’t Surveillance
We speak with Jacob Appelbaum, a computer researcher who has faced a stream of interrogations and electronic surveillance since he volunteered with the whistleblowing website, WikiLeaks. He describes being detained more than a dozen times at the airport and interrogated by federal...
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“…the future is already here; it’s just unevenly distributed.”
– William Gibson
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“1. Work on one thing at a time until finished.
2. Start no more new books, add...”
– Henry Miller’s 11 Commandments of Writing & Daily Creative Routine
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I...”
– Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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“If man is to be given meaning, the Existentialists have shown us, it must be...”
– William Barrett, Irrational Man: a study in existential philosophy
(Quoting Yeats): “Now that my ladder’s gone,/ I must lie down where all ladders start,/ In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.”
This is the problematic of existentialism, which Barrett (correctly)...
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And poof, philosophy allegedly disappears in a... →
Two philosophers based in Denmark have apparently come up with a proof that shows that philosophy doesn’t exist and their discovery is rocking the philosophical community… Dr. Soren Filosht and another thinker who wants to be known only as “Dagmar” have developed a complex argument that ostensibly shows that philosophy is merely the product of wishful thinking and has no basis in...
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March 2012
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