Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State
The revelations of whistle-blowers such as Chelsea Manning, Jeremy Hammond and Edward Snowden about government lawlessness and corporate spying provide a new meaning if not a revitalized urgency and relevance to George Orwell’s dystopian fable 1984. Orwell offered his readers an… Continue reading
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Cambodia: Beauty of Angkor Wat
Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: Angkor Wat is famous for a very good reason: it is stunning in its beauty as well as its mystery. The largest religious temple (Hindu) ever built, almost a millennium ago, and… Continue reading
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A Vortex of Inspiration in the Depths of Winter
Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: There are those who wake up each morning bathed in a glorious sunrise…steam rising off the hot springs outside their door as they gaze across the sky, admiring a rising sun and… Continue reading
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Santa Maria dei Miracoli
[Santa Maria dei Miracoli] …known as the “marble church”… is one of the best examples of the early Venetian Renaissance including colored marble, a false colonnade on the exterior walls (pilasters), and a semicircular pediment… Built between 1481 and 1489 by… Continue reading
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Food Friends Family Faith–A Lost Dream
Wonderful little article that reminds us that the American Dream once centered on working less and having the leisure to enjoy the things that actually matter: among them, food, friends, family, and faith. Now that lost dream shows the foresight… Continue reading
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My Man Godfrey
An awesome little film with one of my favorite actors of the 1930’s, William Powell, and the beautiful Carole Lombard. Directed by Gregory LaCava. This is definitely a great way to spend part of your Sunday after you get back… Continue reading
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Playfulness: the Point of Existence
“A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil “To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that… Continue reading
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Tears of Joy in my Life
When tears begin to flow in the moment of an ecstatic joy, I find an awareness of just how much the body–with all its pains and perturbations–is the necessary crossroads of possible Transcendenz. The feel of my gut contacting, my… Continue reading
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It’s a hard world for little things
Robert Mitchum terrorizes an orphanage defended by the faith and the gun of Ms. Lillian Gish in Charles Laughton’s brilliant, if often misunderstood, film Night of the Hunter. Continue reading
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Feel like shouting!
So much hatred and dread in this old world. So much love and joy. All is flowing… all this beauty and happiness punctuated with this every day struggle and frustration. To be in this wonderful flowing reality and not let… Continue reading
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Textimony 20140208
To say that we are on the ONE WAY is not to say there is only a single way. Get to it, now… EXPLORE!!! Continue reading
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Becoming the Vessel | The Ptero Card
An informative piece from Ptero9 that reminds me how much philosophizing requires going to the margins or as Jaspers would call it, the boundary situations, where we engage in the loving struggle with others who are also attempting self-actualization. So,… Continue reading
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Military Metaphysics: How Militarism Mangles the Mind
Homer in “The Iliad” showed his understanding of war. His heroes are not pleasant men. They are vain, imperial, filled with rage and violent. And Homer’s central character in “The Odyssey,” Odysseus, in his journey home from war must learn… Continue reading
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Afternoon Memo 20140202
My MEMO Status update on FB: Some caricature metaphysics as the most meaningless of abstractions: e.g. pondering how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Such examples work precisely to say that the “beyond” trumps the now/here… Continue reading
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Night Vigil 20140201
Night Vigil has been occupied with the issue of anthropocentrism. Of course anthropo– means human and –centric means center. So the term means to place humankind at the center of everything. Knowing how -centric got the usage, however, is very… Continue reading
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It Is Expensive to Be Poor – Barbara Ehrenreich – The Atlantic
The Great Recession should have put the victim-blaming theory of poverty to rest. In the space of only a few months, millions of people entered the ranks of the officially poor—not only laid-off blue-collar workers, but also downsized tech workers,… Continue reading
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Capitalism vs. Democracy – NYTimes.com
Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” described by one French newspaper as a “a political and theoretical bulldozer,” defies left and right orthodoxy by arguing that worsening inequality is an inevitable outcome of free market capitalism.Piketty, a… Continue reading
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