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
What if, however, humans exceed animals in their capacity for violence precisely because they speak? Language dismembers a thing, destroying its organic unity, treating its parts and properties as autonomous. -*- The fact that reason and race have the same root (ratio) in Latin tells us something: language, not primitive egotistic interest, is the…
“Si vous êtes pris dans le rêve de l’autre, vous êtes foutu” (If you’re trapped in the dream of the other, you’re fucked) —Gilles Deleuze Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone…
