loving struggle

  • Cuba Responding through Its Own Revolutionary Rhythm.

    The Cotton Belt in the Southern USA—the area of almost total cotton growing through Jim Crow—has a lot in common with the history of the folx oppressed in the West Indies. We would do well to think about what we… Continue reading

    Cuba Responding through Its Own Revolutionary Rhythm.
  • We are the children of the cosmos

    Does your thinkering lead to making or to doing? Does your doing and your making lead to thinkering? Continue reading

    We are the children of the cosmos
  • Arriving by assistance of the Whole

    Most who brag of being self-made—to the point of believing their own rhetoric—sooner or later will find themselves self-unmade. Yet even in this, they will become an unmaking alongside all those of whom they took advantage in Violent Struggle. Continue reading

    Arriving by assistance of the Whole
  • Mistaken Identity by Asad Haider | Books | The Guardian

    Identity politics finds critics everywhere. Throw a rock at a rack of newspapers and you’ll probably hit an editorial condemning it. Conservatives such as Republican House speaker Paul Ryan blame it for polarisation, while liberals like the Columbia University historian… Continue reading

    Mistaken Identity by Asad Haider | Books | The Guardian
  • INTRO TO PHIL, fall 2017

    I will be saving my white boards here for my students. From time to time, I will record by lectures. But I won’t be doing this everyday like I did in my summer Existentialism course. Questions raised in morning class… Continue reading

    INTRO TO PHIL, fall 2017
  • Expulsion of the White Working Class

    This exemplifies how the superstructure dominates every aspect of our lives. The neoliberal policies of the two plutocratic parties, Democrat and Republican, keep folks separated along racial lines so that the bottom 50% of citizens will not communicate with each other.… Continue reading

    Expulsion of the White Working Class
  • impossible exchange

    born within the ground bourne upon the wind, every word is prophesy to the death and resurrection of our impossible exchange our loving struggle our communication Continue reading

    impossible exchange
  • The Psychology (and Philosophy) of ‘No Regrets’ – Pacific Standard

    YOLO has essentially become the over-used watchword for every toxic manifestation of masculinity looking to throw off the crushing yoke of personal responsibility. But, at its core, YOLO is also the current manifestation of a fundamental human sentiment: I want… Continue reading

    The Psychology (and Philosophy) of ‘No Regrets’ – Pacific Standard
  • 2015 #love

    Make this a year of love: #consolation #comprehension #compassion Continue reading

  • revolutionaries and reformers

    A sensitive and honest-minded man, if he’s concerned about evil and injustice in the world, will naturally begin his campaign against them by eliminating them at their nearest source: his own person. This task will take his entire life. Continue reading

    revolutionaries and reformers
  • Our twin presiding deities: irony and violence

    The current mainstream debate regarding the crisis in Iraq and Syria offers a near perfect example of both the death of historical memory and the collapse of critical thinking in the United States. It also signifies the emergence of a… Continue reading

    Our twin presiding deities: irony and violence
  • Tim Freke – Part 2 – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview – YouTube

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Also see http://batgap.com/tim-freke/ Tim is a philosopher or ‘lover of wisdom’ who is pioneering a simple new way to experience a profound spiritual awakeni… See on www.youtube.com Continue reading

    Tim Freke – Part 2 – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview – YouTube
  • Tim Freke – Part 1 – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview – YouTube

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Also see http://batgap.com/tim-freke/ Tim is a philosopher or ‘lover of wisdom’ who is pioneering a simple new way to experience a profound spiritual awakeni… See on www.youtube.com Continue reading

    Tim Freke – Part 1 – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview – YouTube
  • Reference

    Once I happened to visit a museum with a friend more versed in painting than I. His remarks, his very presence, keyed the sensibilities with which I was able to see. I saw more, and I saw in a different… Continue reading

    Reference
  • Revisiting the Loving Struggle

    Some videos I made a few years back to take folx along a meandering path toward Karl Jaspers’ notion of the “Loving Struggle.” Continue reading

    Revisiting the Loving Struggle
  • Some More on Loving Struggle

    After a few days of rest, meditation, and a couple of public dialogs, the importance of existential communication or loving struggle became all the more clear to me. So, near the end of the evening, I sat down with my… Continue reading

    Some More on Loving Struggle
  • 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

    Becoming the Vessel | The Ptero Card