…………….in a time of empire collapse. “What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.” —-Seneca We get weepy and furious because our plans have failed and we strongly expected them not to. The task of philosophy is to disappoint us gently before life has a…
There are things that cannot be taught in ten easy lessons; they take years of skull sweat. This is treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man’s opinion is as good as another’s. The world is what it is— and doesn’t forgive ignorance. excerpt from Glory Road by…
We seekers after knowledge today, we godless ones and anti-metaphysicians, we too continue to take our flame from the fire ignited by a belief which is millennia old, that Christian belief, that God is the truth, that the truth is divine. But what if this self same idea is becoming increasingly incredible, what if…
At Starbucks this morning just after six AM the horizon to the East was glowing. To the West just above the tree line in the distance, was a big orange pumpkin moon. It is rare that I have a cosmic sense that everything is in motion. Yes, everything. We fear stasis. Stasis is a…
The Senate passed a tax reform bill last night. The vote was taken at a late hour, after a flurry of last minute amendments, which members certainly did not have the time to read or consider. But no matter. The bill became law along party lines. Republicans all thumbs up, and Democratic Senators, thumbs…
The quotes from Guevara are mind bending. As a source of insight, Che Guevara is considered by many to be a stone-cold-killer, an enemy of all social order. The quote indicates that he was anything but stone-cold, and that he was an advocate of a particular kind of order. Wait, is that a hand…
“Hay que endurecerse sin perder jamás la ternura.” (one must endure-become hard, toughen oneself—without losing tenderness.) –Che Guevara At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. Hatred is an…
Habits are the very stuff our identities are made of. In them we enact and thus define what we effectively are as social beings, often in contrast with our perception of what we are. In their very transparency they are the medium of social violence. My notions—of good and evil, of pleasant and unpleasant,…
There is more truth in the “decontextualized” French Nietzsche of Deleuze and Foucault than in the historically accurate Nietzsche………… The universal frame of Nietzsche’s thought and its particular historical contextualization is inscribed into the very edifice of Nietzsche’s thought. Ergo…. In the same way the tension between the universal form of human rights and…
Instrumental rationality— namely the calculation of the most efficient means for achieving a given desire— has overwhelmed Western thinking for the last 300 years……….. We must change the aesthetic tone of the world. –Adbusters Nov/Dec 2017
