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  • Political Gnosticism & Far Right Wing Implosion

    Oh, America… your ultra right wing folk have utterly melted down. This gent offers a “stiff-upper-lip comrades, we shall soldier on to save the barbarians from themselves” on the one hand and then succumbs to utter doom on the other.… Continue reading

  • Class, Race, & Economic Discipline

    As always, a nice find by my good brother Carl Sachs. Very interesting. Notwithstanding slavery, segregation and today’s covert racism, the Southern system has always been based on economics, not race.  Its rulers have always seen the comparative advantage of… Continue reading

  • Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity

    Epistemology can be translated as the study of how we know or an account of how we know. In the article I link to below, UT PhD candidate Mark Coddington does a nice job delineating the different situations which generate… Continue reading

    Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity

  • Racial Excuses Already

    Election night is not even over and Bill O’Reilly already sets the stage for the resentment parade. At first I was going to go through and take it on point by point. But it literally began to make me feel… Continue reading

  • Poll Quants & the Book of Life

    I’ve been unpacking my notions about the Society of Control a lot in the last few months. Primarily of late, this centers on developing the notion that control is about accounting… we use a mathematical model to translate the Life-World… Continue reading

    Poll Quants & the Book of Life

  • The Antidote to Ayn Rand < Truthout.org

    The last word of Ayn Rand’s dystopian novella Anthem is “EGO.” Grasping the significance of this forbidden word is a kind of divine revelation for the novel’s protagonist, signaling his emancipation from the benighted, collectivist society into which he was… Continue reading

  • Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine

    Really bad ass unofficial video for Kanye West’s “Who will survive in a America…” Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine | Design Graphic & Photography Inspirations. Continue reading

    Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine

  • Textimony 20121101

    Conditions where desire or fear overtake to unmake us: a mind full of superfluity, a belly empty of nutrition, and a heart out of sync with itself. Continue reading

  • A Boon of Dandelions 5

    Creatures of emotion. & passion… reason is not our better power but our guiding power, our focus & adjustment. To sense, to cognize,  to remember, to imagine, to judge, to believe: these are all ways that we reason. Brought together… Continue reading

  • The Intelligencers and the Fifth Moon of Jupiter: Alchemy in the American Colonies « Newtopia Magazine

    Next time somebody tries to pull the “America was founded by good Christians who were regular church goers, pull this info out on them. Thanks to Zeteticus @ Soul Spelunker for Scooping this interesting piece. Puritan alchemists founded America; sounds… Continue reading

  • The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic

    The ongoing struggles with encoding the Book of Life. It is The Future. You wake up at dawn and fumble on the bedstand for your (Google) Glass. Peering out at the world through transparent screens, what do you see?  If… Continue reading

  • Charles Tart: Self Observation (excerpt) – A Thinking Allowed DVD with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove – YouTube

    I am not a Freudian, but I do appreciate the thrust of this dialog. The prerequisite for Profound Reflection 401 is Introductory Introspection 101… not on the list of any philosophy or any psychology class schedules I know about. Continue reading

  • Speak the Truth & Shame the Devil!

    Calling lies “lies” and theft “theft” and violence “violence,” loudly, clearly, and consistently, until truth becomes more than a bump in the road, is a powerful aspect of political activism. Much of the work around human rights begins with accurately… Continue reading

  • How do we Shape Souls Without Longing?

    Nice looking backward at Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. Deneen correctly locates the import of the text in its prescient concern with the dis-ease of indifference. Today we live in a different age, one that so worried Bloom—an age… Continue reading

  • The Book of Life

    A recent Truthout.org article speaks to our living in an impoverished age. The issue with our impoverishment arises from not comprehending how the “plutocracy” is a conceptual weapon, not only against the 99% but against themselves as well. One thing… Continue reading

    The Book of Life

  • The Matter of Anti-Philosophy

    Massimo Pigliucci criticizes Lawrence Krauss and the current habit of physicists who speak despairingly of philosophy. Very much worth the read. I give you here a quote he pulls from Einstein in defense of philosophizing… I fully agree with you… Continue reading

  • Review for new book: “What Can You Really Know?”

    A tad meandering for a book review, but the conclusion is of interest. When and why did philosophy lose its bite? How did it become a toothless relic of past glories? These are the ugly questions that Jim Holt’s book… Continue reading

  • The Great Chasm Twixt Rich & Poor

    I highly recommend to all my brothers & sisters of the ether that you pay some heed to this week’s issue of The Economist beginning with this piece… Disparities in wealth are less visible in Americans’ everyday lives today than they… Continue reading