Keith “Maggie” Brown
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The Antidote to Ayn Rand < Truthout.org
The last word of Ayn Rand’s dystopian novella Anthem is “EGO.” Grasping the significance of this forbidden word is a kind of divine revelation for the novel’s protagonist, signaling his emancipation from the benighted, collectivist society into which he was… Continue reading
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Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine
Really bad ass unofficial video for Kanye West’s “Who will survive in a America…” Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine | Design Graphic & Photography Inspirations. Continue reading
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Textimony 20121018
A distinction betwixt youthful choice & decisive mastery: a youth gives answers & gets time; a master forgets answers & forgives time. Graceful oblivion. Continue reading
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Crashed car sculpted from painted people
Crashed car sculpted from painted people – StumbleUpon http://ow.ly/eSAYn Continue reading
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The politics of prudence; or, how I learned to stop worrying about climate change and love therapeutic nihilism | csid
Nice new piece from Kelli Barr, one of my colleagues at CSID: Frankenstorm Sandy, currently ravaging the northeastern US, is testament enough to the predictable unpredictability inherent in global warming. What I mean by “predictable unpredictability” is something like the… Continue reading
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» Hard-to-Believe! High School Student Researchers?
I am always humbled to know that I have had a philosophical career that could only have been born in an atmosphere like the one at Waxahachie High School. While I was never one of the computer science and research… Continue reading
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Speak the Truth & Shame the Devil!
Calling lies “lies” and theft “theft” and violence “violence,” loudly, clearly, and consistently, until truth becomes more than a bump in the road, is a powerful aspect of political activism. Much of the work around human rights begins with accurately… Continue reading
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The Book of Life
A recent Truthout.org article speaks to our living in an impoverished age. The issue with our impoverishment arises from not comprehending how the “plutocracy” is a conceptual weapon, not only against the 99% but against themselves as well. One thing… Continue reading
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New Domain
After two years of mulling it over, I have decided that Reason & Existenz Blog should have a domain that reflects me as the author. I have had a special devotion to Karl Jaspers who was the teacher of my… Continue reading
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The Matter of Anti-Philosophy
Massimo Pigliucci criticizes Lawrence Krauss and the current habit of physicists who speak despairingly of philosophy. Very much worth the read. I give you here a quote he pulls from Einstein in defense of philosophizing… I fully agree with you… Continue reading
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Review for new book: “What Can You Really Know?”
A tad meandering for a book review, but the conclusion is of interest. When and why did philosophy lose its bite? How did it become a toothless relic of past glories? These are the ugly questions that Jim Holt’s book… Continue reading
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