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Tag Archives: freedom
Anarchy – Mission, Feasibility, and Implimentation
I remember when I first realized that the notions I had regarding politics and social affairs could most closely be called Anarchy. I was in one of my Spanish literature class (to my delight my second major, Spanish, was filled … Continue reading
Posted in General Philosophies
Tagged anarchy, building codes, capitalism, chomsky, democracy, democratic republic, direct democracy, economics, freedom, fundamentalist, fundamentals, government, Hobbes, ideal, liberterian socialism, liberty, Locke, loyalty, malatesta, morality, morals, nationalism, Noam Chomsky, politics, republic, socialism, solutions, spirituality, system, thought, Virginia Wolfe
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Be Yourself!
Don’t Worry! Let anxiety pass through you like wind through the trees. Painting by Skip Lee
Posted in Active Philosophy
Tagged Active Philosophy, anxiety, be yourself, empty, freedom, naturalness, nature, self, Skip Lee, spontaneous, trees, wind, worry, Zen
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Why Obama Matters
Egypt and global Islam – The battle for a religion’s heart I normally hate The Economist for its condescending, pro-capitalist slant – even this article shows the lengths that this publication is willing to go to present the “other” as … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged animosity, capitalism, diplomacy, economics, egypt, extremism, free speech, freedom, geopolitics, Islam, middle east, obama, politics, president, Qaradawi, strife, terrorism, the other, treason, war
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Electricity and the New Power: Free Energy Society
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, the freedom to peaceably assemble. These are all inalienable rights guaranteed in the Constitution. Something is missing. It seems that every couple hundred years or so, an new kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Quick Ideas
Tagged america, constitution, diesel, electricity, energy, freedom, fuel, gasoline, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, methane, power plants, propane, rights, warmth, water heaters
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Free! Movie
Just got my camera in yesterday. Filming will commence as soon as I read the owner’s manual… The enigma is not the meaning of life, but how to proceed once you (think you) know what it is. I will be posting … Continue reading
Posted in Documentary Ideas
Tagged action, art, camcorder, design, digital, Documentary, Documentary Ideas, enigma, film, freedom, life, movement, movie, mystery, Philosophy, plans, seeking, time, universe, work
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Beyond Theism/Atheism
Puff Daddy: “Let’s change the world, BIG.” Notorious BIG: “Can’t change the world unless we change ourselves.” Beyond Atheism/Theism “I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s; I will not reason and compare; my business is to … Continue reading
Posted in Active Philosophy
Tagged agnosticism, atheism, belief, brand, catholicism, Christianity, discipline, division, faith, freedom, Gandhi, gentiles, gnostic, God, Gospel of Thomas, heaven, Hegel, history, judaism, knowledge, Leibniz, love, morality, Nietzshe, ownership, Pascal, raft, religion, Spinoza, spiritual, theism, tolerance, truth, unity, William Blake, wisdom, Wittgenstein
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The Age of Humanity
“You were sick, but now you’re well, and there’s work to do” – Kilgore Trout Salaam! A new regime appears! It surfaces from the wasteland of the previous power, feeding and thriving on the toxicity deposited by the old authority. … Continue reading
Posted in Active Philosophy
Tagged Active Philosophy, art, capitalism, consumption, counterculture, cross, culture, dancing, death, destiny, economics, flag, freedom, genocide, hippies, humanity, hysteria, individuality, institutions, Kilgore Trout, Kurt Vonegut, life, logic, love, market, meaning, modernism, money, Music, new regime, New Sincerity, nihilism, postmodernism, private property, progress, revolution, science, society, spirit, suffering, the soul, threefold path, trade, universe, woodie gutherie, work, Zen
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The Internet
Is there any better proof that anarchy is a viable structure if we melt away our preconceived notions of self and other? In any case it is good to focus on what we can do…use ideas as models for improvement…I … Continue reading
Posted in Quick Ideas, Quotes
Tagged anarchy, blogging, boundaries, chaos, conspiracies, desire, evidence, facebook, freedom, Gordan Graham, international relations, internet, modern, motivation, notions, organisms, organization, organized energy, potential, proof, reading, search engines, self, Structure, subversion, technology, the other, thought, today, writing, youtube
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Hippies 2.0
This post is in response to Caprice Part II and will be brief. Much of the content of this post is based on the BBC documentary ‘Century of the Self’ (post linked here) Part 3 (video linked here). In the … Continue reading
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Tagged active, Active Philosophy, breaking point, brief thought, capitalism, caprice, Century of the Self, change, conscious, creativity, Documentary, evolve, freedom, hippie, hippies 2.0, individual, indvidual vs. group, limits, movement, paradigm, peace, Philosophy, Reagan, society, the 80's, whims
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