The Elder Bush Also Lied Us into a War
December 5, 2018
wars of opportunity are not moral, or honorable … More The Elder Bush Also Lied Us into a War
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The Spectre of China
November 28, 2018
Work hard and shut up … More The Spectre of China
And then, there’s Terence McKenna
November 13, 2018
Is synchronicity real? … More And then, there’s Terence McKenna
Philip K. Dick: Schizophrenia and the I Ching
November 9, 2018
Sometimes our minds are too open. … More Philip K. Dick: Schizophrenia and the I Ching
Political Lies Lead To Totalitarianism
November 1, 2018
Last night I finished watching the third season of Man in the High Castle on Amazon video. The American Nazi youth were celebrating the destruction of the Statue of Liberty to launch the year of the new beginning. This public demonstration followed the meltdown of the Liberty Bell. By destroying the symbols of American history, the … More Political Lies Lead To Totalitarianism
Charlie LeDuff has a Point
October 29, 2018
SH*TSHOW! is a great book. His reporting on the people working at the Mercedes-Benz factory opened my eyes about unions. Why did they vote to keep the UAW out? Why? In May when I wrote about the pending Supreme Court’s Janus decision I made the assumption that strong unions were the only way to resurrect the middle class. … More Charlie LeDuff has a Point
Dark Star Rising: a review of Gary Lachman’s disturbing recent book
October 22, 2018
the occult moves into the White House … More Dark Star Rising: a review of Gary Lachman’s disturbing recent book
Language and Thought: Are they the same?
October 17, 2018
Dr. Steven Pinker asked the question:”What sense, then, can we make of the suggestion that images, numbers, kinship relations, or logic can be represented in the brain without being couched by words?” (Language Instinct, p. 64) He credits Alan Turing as being the man responsible for making the idea of mental representation, which Pinker calls mentalese, scientifically … More Language and Thought: Are they the same?
Can We Think without Words?
October 15, 2018
Are language and thought one and the same? Can we only know reality through the medium of language? Donald Fagen, one of the geniuses behind Steely Dan, in his autobiography Elegant Hipsters, traces entire subcultures spawned by Count Korzybski’s General Semantics. The basic idea of the book is succinctly summarized by Steven Pinker in The Language Instinct: “General … More Can We Think without Words?
Steven Pinker: Friend or foe of the Enlightenment?
October 11, 2018
It pains me to write this. This morning my Google news feed included a review of Enlightenment Now from the Jacobin magazine denouncing Steven Pinker as a “false friend of the Enlightenment”; and this, just when I thought I could sit back and watch the march of progress from the comfort of my own home. Dr Frim, … More Steven Pinker: Friend or foe of the Enlightenment?