Category: AnarchoCynicism
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The import of the Sardonic and the Uncertain
From Frank Herbert’s Dune . Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never persistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a…
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God is more liberal than most people think
Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.
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Laying claim
“Only a thought that does not conceal its own unsaid–but consantly takes it up and elaborates it–may eventually lay claim to originality.” Giorgio Agamben, The Signature of All Things (2009, 8)
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What You Believe About Homosexuality Doesn’t Matter | In The Parlor
Very well said. Very well said… The debate over the “rightness or wrongness” of homosexuality has once again been fired up. The appeals to the Biblical passages have been made. The academic rebuttals to the interpretation of those passages has no doubt been referenced. The calls for freedom and tolerance…
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Maybe Logic Academy
Goes well with my own thinking about philosophizing and why we keep asking questions. Founded in 2004, Maybe Logic Academy is an innovative online learning institution and community. The Academy features online courses by some our most important and ground-breaking writers, theorists, artists and teachers. Over the past nine years,…
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▶ Do “Digital Natives” Exist? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube
Good episode that touches upon a few things I have been thinking about since earlier in the year. Is there such a thing as a \”DIGITAL NATIVE\”? Some experts have suggested a clear divide between \”digital native\” (the Millennial tech experts) and \”digital immigrant\” (older generations introduced to technology later in…
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Colleges are teaching economics backwards
…here’s one temporary fix for introductory economics: teach it backwards. Reversing the order in which introductory economic classes are taught today might be the easiest way to respond to the crisis in undergraduate education. Plus, the history of how it gets taught now is more interesting and more political than…
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Silencing the Mind Will Be Heeded by the Cosmos
I don’t really think old Laozi actually ever said this. But, it is a great quote. Related articles John Cage: Silence yet not silencing (pilimi200.wordpress.com) Silence the music (sounddesign2013.wordpress.com) Daodejing 1 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 35 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 38 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 71 (keithwaynebrown.com)
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Willingness and Will
A great philosopher–like Plato or Kant, Laozi or Nietzsche–does not give doctrines for memorization, provide answers to life’s problems, nor demonstrate proofs that will forever explain being human. That such has often been taken away from the greatest minds in human history testifies to the ongoing desire to end care…
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Chomsky: Business Elites Are Waging a Brutal Class War in America | Alternet
Well, there’s always a class war going on. The United States, to an unusual extent, is a business-run society, more so than others. The business classes are very class-conscious—they’re constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition. Occasionally this is recognized. We don’t use the…
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Art and Inner Spaces
“Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in the interests of one group of humanity, or one ideal for humanity. But humanity—my heavens, that’s what proper art renders. We have a paradox. Going into…
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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 had some big-name participants, from Ed Stone of Nasa’s Voyager…
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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 side, hustling to survive. They spent thousands on undergraduate and…
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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 is well-known to some few many
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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. Always already on the way, only in open communication with…
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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!
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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.
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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 to the profound wisdom these folks taught 2400 years ago.…
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