Category Archives: Philosophy
Big Death
Not a fair trade
I think it was Hegel who summed it up best when he told David Frost Well, I don’t really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel … Continue reading
His name is nobody
The economic liberal whose personality is another “private equity” is the human exponent of the universal equivalent, money, and approximates its mode of operation in his chameleonlike adaptability. Yesterday he was a social liberal, today he’s a social conservative. He doesn’t “really” care. He isn’t “really” anyone, at least as far as we’re concerned. And that’s who he is for political purposes – same as what he comes across as – no one in particular. Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Religion
Tagged free market capitalism, Liberalism, Mitt Romney, social conservatism, social liberalism
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Israel Third, To Be Precise
No one discussing the notion of “Israel First,” as no one once upon a time discussing the mirror notion of “America First,” can fully comprehend the paradox embedded in the concept except materially, except in the actualization of their ignorance – their, your, my, our ignorance – via politics. Continue reading
Commodity of Commodities
Avoiding climate catastrophe requires of democratic capitalism that it embrace its own absolute contradiction – catastrophically. Continue reading
If songs were wishes were horses….what sense would that make?
I’m . . . a rather simple person with a limited talent and perhaps a limited perspective.—- Bill Evans
GOP-Smacked
oops there goes gravitas Continue reading
Posted in Culture & Entertainment, Philosophy, Politics, US History, Writing
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The Ages of Reagans
Sooner or later, we may always end up seeing our own moment as the hinge point of some grand historical narrative. Resisting that temptation, or taking cognizance of its dangers, should not prevent us from being aware that the plates do shift, typically at the moment you think they have finally gone completely still. Continue reading
Posted in Culture & Entertainment, Philosophy, US History
Tagged Conservatism, Corey Robin, Reactionary, Reagan, Reaganism, Steven Hayward
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Psychotic Elephants Smash Depressed Donkeys
…the assertion that we are one seems to be contradicted by the first mildly combative gesture. Continue reading
Two Jacks
Maybe in a future iteration, Jack in the Pulpits will have evolved into carnivorous plants. Now, their deliciously fetid smell mimics a range of living and dead animal flesh. Flies, gnats and mosquitoes lock in and crawl down the tube … Continue reading
Posted in Art, bob's photos, Philosophy, Science, Writing
Tagged Life and Death Struggles, photography
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