AnarchoCynicism
My personal brand of philosophy.
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Are we all screwed if we refuse to stand up and push back?
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year’s conference… Continue reading
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Surviving the post-employment economy – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
A lawyer. A computer scientist. A military analyst. A teacher. What do these people have in common? They are trained professionals who cannot find full-time jobs. Since 2008, they have been tenuously employed – working one-year contracts, consulting on the… Continue reading
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almost encounter
fame is a strange thing the talk of many who know relative number 100 rhetoricians 1,000,000 people at large each is a “many” although both really are few compared to the All yesterday I almost met some one whose name… Continue reading
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Dwindling Ignorance
Conservation of energy does not mean preservation of energy. See the latter as opposite to entropy while the former is middle ground betwixt the two. The struggle of conservation we call life; our way through it, love; our outcome, belief.… Continue reading
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Worrying is Preposterous
Brothers and sisters… Terence McKenna Worrying is presposterous… And you know what else… Culture is not your friend! Continue reading
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Textimony 20130918
Be ever mindful good friends: dialog is not a choice between victory or defeat. Authentic communication has many outcomes; winner and loser are not among them. Continue reading
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▶ Cynicism | YouTube
As a humble anarchocynic, I am a bit ashamed that I have not posted anything on the history of ancient Cyncisim in a while. Please recognize-please RE-COG-NIZE–that the contemporary usage of the term “cynic” is a slap in the face… Continue reading
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Fleeing from the Real World
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED Bill Watterson Creator of Calvin & Hobbes Commencement Speech to the Graduating Class of 1990 at Kenyon College I have a recurring dream about Kenyon. In it,… Continue reading
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Searching for Integrity: The Politics of Mindfulness in the Digital Economy – Nomos Journal
Fascinating article by a friend of my dear brother, Carl S. With the proliferation of training courses espousing the benefits of yoga and meditation, critics have coined the term “McMindfulness” to describe a cottage industry whose profit motives appear to… Continue reading
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Zetetics
Doing some research on the notion of zetetic only to find my dear friend Pete A. Y. Gunter quoted by this gentleman. I had forgotten about this term zetetics. As I move more and more back to philosophizing through dialog with youth, it… Continue reading
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“Seek out historic …
“Seek out historic distractions–purposeful conspiracy and habitual con-spiring (breathing a common air)–by which those who would claim to hold power try to keep empowered. Power belongs to no person. It already flows from the Way and always returns to the… Continue reading
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Nothingness and Liberation
As an anarchocynic, I find myself looking through the open and secret history of humankind very often. Part of my apparent contradiction to folks comes from how one must needs hop from this to that to the other in order… Continue reading
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Max Stirner
Because our time is struggling toward the word with which it may express its spirit, many names come to the fore and all make claim to being the right one. […] Without our assistance, time will not bring the right… Continue reading
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A Discussion With Cryptome
Fascinating interview over at Gawker… Gawker: Snowden told the Guardian that in leaking these documents he wanted to reveal the “architecture of oppression.” You’re both architects—what does that term mean to you? Young: People take it metaphorically, but we think… Continue reading
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Entelechy – Cosmos – Event
Seek thou after the entelecy of things if the opening of the Way is thy quest. Look not to the particular example or the general explanation of anything. To take up experience as wisdom means to be a student of… Continue reading
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