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Of Moon Landings, False Rabbit Trails, and Approaching Epistemic Oblivion
It’s the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. “We came in peace for all mankind” reads the plaque left behind by Neil Armstrong & “Buzz” Aldrin. Except that on Earth there is no peace, & some believe the whole thing was faked. Did we really go to the moon? The Lost Generation Philosopher ponders the mystery…. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Media, Science and Technology, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged 50th Anniversary, American decline, Apollo 11, changing technology, Conspiracy Theories, July 20 1969, moon landings, moon landings hoax, moonlandings, Neil Armstrong, one giant leap for mankind, The Thing quotations, The Thing quotes, We came in peace for all mankind
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Comment on Robert Greenleaf Brice, “Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Facts and Our Stubborn Attitude Towards Them” APA Blog, January 21, 2019
Comment intended for the APA Blog in response to article by Robert Greenleaf Brice on “Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Facts and Our Stubborn Attitude Towards Them” Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Election 2016 and Aftermath, Media, Philosophy, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged APA Blog, basket of deplorables, cosmopolitan elites, deplorables, diversity is our strength, DNC corruption, Donald Trump, Facts and Our Stubborn Attitude Towards Them, fake news, fake news meme, global elites, Hillary Clinton, MAGA hats, nationalism vs globalism, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, post-truth, post-truth world, PropOrNot, quotas, racism, resurgence of fascism, Robert Greenleaf Brice, Russiagate, Russian propaganda, superdelegates, trangenders bathrooms, Trump is a liar, Trump lies, Trump supporters, Trump supporters emotional, Trump supporters emotions, Trumps lies, underrepresentation, underrepresented groups, Washington Post, white supremacists, yellow vests
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The Deep Establishment
In the title of his recent Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) former Greek foreign minister Yanis Varoufakis introduces this phrase: The Deep Establishment. I like it! The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Higher Education Generally, Media, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Adults in the Room, Big Pharma, big tech, Carroll Quigley, central banks, Conspiracy Theories, David Rockefeller Sr, Deep Establishment, Deep State, fake news, military-security complex, new world order, privished, The Deep Establishment, The Deep State, the one percent, Tragedy and Hope, udo ulfkotte, world government movement, Yanis Varoufakis, Zbigniew Brzezinsky
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George Herbert Walker Bush (1924 – 2018)
Today is George Herbert Walker Bush’s funeral. I don’t normally write notices for just-deceased politicians, so this is a departure for me. But something has aroused my curiosity. I posted a very brief notice about his death, along with a … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Allen Dulles, Allen Dulles CIA Director, Bay of Pigs, Bush CIA, Conspiracy Theories, Facebook hate speech, G H W Bush, George Bush CIA, George H W Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, JFK assassination, LBJ and JFK assassination, money laundering Nazis, Prescott Bush
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Open Letter to Professor C. Christine Fair, Georgetown University
Re: “Look at this chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement. All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? … Continue reading
The Fate of Civilizations
Should a philosopher be interested in the trajectory of civilizations, from their rise to dominance in a region, and then the reasons why a civilization seems to lose its collective capacity and go into decline? Most professional philosophers are not, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Media, Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged Age of Decadence, Anita Hill Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, cycles of civilizations, higher education, John Bagot Glubb, love of money, sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, Supreme Court, The Fate of Empires, What Should Philosophy Do?
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Philosophers and Social Media: A Comment
Those who read last week’s note will probably say, “Wow, that was a short break!” This is a comment, though, not a stand-alone essay like many of its predecessors. This despite it’s getting longer than I intended. Should philosophers “do” social … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Media, Philosophy, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged academic politics, Brian Leiter, Facebook censorship, Facebook jail, keyboard commando, marginalized philosophers, online etiquette, philosophy and Facebook, philosophy and social media, philosophy blogs, Rebecca Kukla, Trump voters
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