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  • The Financial War Against the Economy at Large

    …By not raising taxes on the wealthy or using the central bank to monetize spending on anything except bailing out the banks and subsidizing the financial sector, the government follows a pro-creditor policy. Tax favoritism for the wealthy deepens the… Continue reading

  • How reading flip-flops from digital to physical | Books | The Observer

    Robin Sloan, author of Fish, the acclaimed iPhone essay featured here a few months ago, used the term “flip-flop” to define an increasingly common process by which a work of art moves between different formats, and specifically between the physical… Continue reading

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  • Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: We think of our mind and body as separate entities that are often at war with each other. Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that the body is a treasure. This audio clip is an excerpt from… Continue reading

  • Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion, reviewed. – Slate Magazine

    In her memoir Searching for Zion, Emily Raboteau travels to several continents and countries—including Israel, Jamaica, and Ghana—seeking her own personal Promised Land. While Raboteau, whose mother is white and father is black, may not have been looking to trace… Continue reading

  • What is and What is not: Parmenides, Negation, and the Limits of Thought | noir realism

    From Parmenides to Spinoza and Hegel and beyond the monism of the identification of Mind and Being, or Cognition and its Object has fought itself out in the struggles of philosophical speculation. Are the wars over? No. Can there ever… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts: “In Spinoza the whole theory of expression supports univocity; and its whole import is to free univocal Being from a state of indifference or neutrality, to make it the… Continue reading

  • Stupidity – Idiocy – Ignorance

    A short taxonomy: Stupidity: Having no native ability for thought at all. Idiocy: Being able in one thing but incapable in all else.  Ignorance: Not knowing where to start due to lack of information.  All suffer from ignorance at every… Continue reading

  • The Excellence of Fortitude in the Face of Viciousness

    ‎”I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct,… Continue reading

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