If the Left wants to reduce the popularity of Alex Jones, it should not censor him but support those on the Left doing what is being called “conspiracy theory” in a responsible way. Examples: Vandana Shiva, Whitney Webb, Peter Dale Scott, etc. There is dumb bullshit conspiracy theories on both sides of politics, yet the […]
I have long struggled with a way to describe the triumphant, epic structure when it does transcend the personal and melodramatic. Greg Desilet’s work suggests there is no such thing: that a narrative structure is either tragic, comic, or melodramatic. For him, the comedy may have a hero overcoming something and the tension resolved, but
Walking down the street on this beautiful fall day, the contrast between the joyous sense of a spontaneous order inherent in nature, and the increasing amount of people walking around afraid of nature and each other, is ever more palpable. For a while, many people thought the changes were part of just some temporary disaster,
Philosophically, Deleuzian thought represents the most advanced development of Naturphilosophie. But Deleuze never followed up on the detailed implications of his thought to physics. Delanda goes a bit of the way in “Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy”. Timothy S. Murphy’s essay “Quantum Ontology” in the book “Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and
The problem with mistaking surface features and symptoms for the real issues is not merely a question of depth. People seem to think we can remove the troubling symptom and worry about those deeper causes later—or leave them to idle philosophers who merely “speculate” on levels of depth that are completely impractical and besides the
Learning is open-ended. Seeking is end-oriented. The tao should not be confused with seeking nor passivity. It is not a surrender to the stream of circumstances. In the internal martial arts that pattern themselves after the tao, one does not let an opponent dominate them, but neither does one resist them. One learns to incorporate
Voting is violent. Not that there is anything essentially wrong in that. It is just strange that we are more encouraged to use the state to force our opinion on other people, than we are encouraged to figure out the best policy or find compromises together. Ok, maybe not so strange. Let me rephrase and
