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Tag Archives: history
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up…
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up – Tom Waits I am not quite sure what made me think of this, but I remember awhile back I watch a documentary about how dogs became dogs and what made them different than wolves. … Continue reading
History Reimagined
We imagine the future containing an infinite amount of possibilities. The present is more concrete, for obvious reasons. Sandwiched between the to-come and what-has-come. But all of our conceptions of history suggest that the past can only have happened one … Continue reading
Posted in Active Philosophy
Tagged causality, cause and effect, choice, concept, fate, fossil, future, history, now, paleontology, past, possibility, present, thing, time
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The Verifiably Impossible
Day by day I find that our biggest problem as humanity is the disconnect between experience and the value we accord the verifiably impossible (see post). It’s funny that the biggest problem in creating a so-called better world – that … Continue reading
Posted in Quick Ideas
Tagged better world, causality, cause and effect, consequences, countries, dialectics, empiricism, ethics, history, Ideas, impossible, institutions, Kant, logical positivism, nations, notions, noumena, politics, power, state, wealth
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Malatesta – Anarchy Part III
This is a continuation of Anarchy Part I and Anarchy Part II, which Errico Malatesta called his greatest work… “…We know well how in social economy theories are too often invented to justify facts, that is, to defend privilege and … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged agriculture, america, anarchism, anarchy, body politic, capitalism, control, economics, government, habits, history, life, malatesta, needs, parliament, politics, poverty, power, primitive, private power, private wealth, production, relationships, social relations, society, sociology
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Marx On Dialectics
I really like this, taken from Marx’s Capital. “My dialectic method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite. To Hegel, the life-process of the human brain, i.e. the process of thinking, which, under the name … Continue reading
Posted in General Philosophies, Quotes
Tagged balance, brain, capital, change, contradictions, destiny, dialectics, Hegel, history, human, idea, Marx, marxism, nature, phenomena, Philosophy, process, revolution, state, understanding
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Equilibrio
Esto es una respuesta al articulo, “Indifference to Race (In a Negative Sense)” Hablo de proposicion 54 en California. Los escribadores del proposicion querian parar la collecion de informacion de racia en situaciones como educacion, medical, empleo, etc. Ellos decían, … Continue reading
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Tagged article, California, categories, character, color, division, eductation, employment, history, humanity, indifference, individuality, information, labels, medicine, Prop 54, race, reponse, situation, skin, stereotypes, work, writers
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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
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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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Atheism – A Defense part 1
This post in a follow up/response to recent post by my co-blogger on Atheism (See Atheism and Atheism Cont.). I changed a lot in this post when I proofed it. It’s kinda late… I’ll read it once now and then … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostics, atheism, certainty, definitions, doubt, faith, future, God, history, religious, semantics, understanding
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Now
Existence doesn’t posit existence…it’s just a quality of our travels through space/time. “Should is divine, unachievable…” And time is just an underrated instant.
Century of the Self
I just watched this whole series and I think I need to rewatch it. It offers a very interesting account of institutions, American history, psychology, capitalism, advertising, government, identity, cooperations, public relations, the public, mob mentality, World Wars, Hitler, Sigmund … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Documentary Ideas
Tagged 20th century, advertising, america, american, Anna, capitalism, century, Century of the Self, Documentary, focus groups, Freud, government, history, Hitler, identity, individuals, institutions, mob mentality, politics, psychology, public relations, self, Sigmund, World War
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