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Giving The Economist More Grief
Yesterday I left this comment on this article from The Economist: A “new normal” for the world economy: After the storm. I love how for years Economist decried any sort of government intervention as the macro-economy deteriorated, but as soon … Continue reading
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Tagged capacity, capital, capitalism, commodities, crash, crisis, David Harvey, economics, Economist, economy, finance, growth, Harvey, intervention, macroeconomy, Marx, money, neoliberal, normal, overaccumulation, postmodernity, privatization, production, recession, social order, speculation, TARP, unemployment
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An Important Distinction
This will help structure the foundation of Active Philosophy, taken from Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: “Accordingly the Transcendental Analytic leads to this important conclusion, that the most of the understanding can achieve a priori is to anticipate the form … Continue reading
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Tagged a posteriori, a priori, Active Philosophy, balance, capital, capitalism, categories, causality, cause and effect, empiricism, ethics, evidence, fate, gravity, idea, idealism, infinity, justice, Kant, labor, law, laws, Marx, money, morals, myth, nations, nature, notion, noumena, particles, phenomena, Philosophy, reality, reason, religion, science, skepticism, thought, zero
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Bigger Houses
I read this on a wall at a good friend’s family home: “We have bigger houses but smaller families: We have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgements; more experts but more problems; more medicines, but less … Continue reading
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Tagged accomplishments, character, common sense, communication, computers, concepts, culture, dalai lama, digestion, family, fast food, greed, health, houses, hunger, judgement, knowledge, love, medicine, modern, money, neighbor, norms, notions, quote, real estate, relationships, self-knowledge, speed, technology, trash, travel, understanding, waste, wealth
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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
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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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