Keith “Maggie” Brown
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More pollution for less pollution?
Rocks unearthed here [in Indonesia] contain traces of nickel, a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries. Extracting it, refining it and readying it for export is a gargantuan task. More than $1 billion has been sunk into the processing facility,… Continue reading
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Ready… set… leap!
Obviously, folks make leaps all the time: they leap for real joy, they leap to invalid conclusions, they leap into bad deals, etc. So a distinction must be drawn between springing-forth from the solid ground of critical experience (the dance… Continue reading
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Climbing Mountains
I was missing my brother quite fiercely today. I am not really sure why… I kept thinking about how we shared a love for Star Wars and SciFi Fantasy. Or how my eclectic taste in music is so much due… Continue reading
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Reading my life as a “useless passion”
Problem posing from my experience increases my existential literacy in the direction of liberatory praxis. Continue reading
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Philosophical Faith
Philosophical Faith, according to Karl Jaspers, provides each person a way of understanding the world and their place in it. Unlike religious belief, there is no need for a special revelation from a prophetic figure nor any required dogma to… Continue reading
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When daddy went homeward
A small memory of faith, hope, and love. Continue reading
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Aphorism Injection 24 April 2023
Playing with the root word L. IACERE (to throw). Continue reading
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Protected: SOME NOTES FOR CLASS
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading
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Transistance
Resistance is futile… We must TRANSIST! Continue reading
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I asked Google Bard to explain…
Google Bard helps folks understand how all social media and tech companies get SO VERY MUCH free labor from all those who use it. Continue reading
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Back to beginnings
Sometimes, it is better to junk some efforts with which you have been engaged than to continue their upkeep while simultaneously wasting your time. Social media was this for me. I was big proponent way back in 2008-2010. I saw… Continue reading
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No More Social Media
That is my intent and I hope to manifest a clean break. I will keep posting on here as blogging goes all the way back to when we still used Bulletin Board Systems to share our thinkering. And while I… Continue reading
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Aphorism 25Mar2023
If I am willing to be open to the uncertainty of being in the lifeworld alongside all these others also struggling toward liberation, I must never forget: Evolution is neither preservation of the status quo nor conservation of the familiar;… Continue reading
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Some thoughts on guilt and innocence
To the degree that there is an intentionality to guilt. it would involve consciousness of failure. In this sense, I mean failure to do the right thing: either because you failed to do right on purpose or by accident. Existentially,… Continue reading
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Aphorism 17Mar2023
Do not talk to show-off the many things in your stable of understandings. Rather, speak to shine-forth the experience of passing-through this moment. Otherwise, remain in the dignity of silence. Flowing quietly with the Encompassing Now/Here, how can there be… Continue reading
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Loving as heeding the vocation of humanization
Lecture from PHIL 2306, Intro to Ethics, 07March2023: Finding the ground for ethical theory and moral action. I propose that most “vicious” / vice-ridden reactivity to our circumstances arises from dehumanization. Therefore, if there is a place where we can… Continue reading
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Health as Shame Generator
Lots of shame comes out of the Health Industrial Complex. Whether it’s a physician measuring your failure in pounds or a fitness guru manipulating your desire to “look fit and attractive,” shame plays a HUGE role in keeping most people… Continue reading
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Dark Music Days Music Festival
My beautiful sibling and philosophic co-conspiratorJeanette Joy Harris went all the way to Iceland for this festival experience. The least you can do is read about it. Sounds like it was a brilliant time Curating a music festival, or any… Continue reading
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