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Walker Percy Wednesday 120
“Hear this, Tom. I’ll make it short and sweet. We’re not talking about some bush-league medical project—fluoridating water to cure tooth decay. We’re not even talking about curing AIDS. We’re not even talking medicine, Tom. We’re talking about the decay of the social fabric. The American social fabric. I’m not telling you anything you don’t…
Gene-Modified Ants Shed Light on How Societies Are Organized
This from the New York Times (H/T Shannon Selin) “Our ultimate goal is to have a fundamental understanding of how a complex biological system works,” Dr. Kronauer said. “I use ants as a model to do this.” As he sees it, ants in a colony are like cells in a multicellular organism, or like neurons…
Dreaming the future
We all want a better world, and we seemingly make progress, with more technology and less prejudice. Yet ideals and utopias are strangely difficult to imagine, let alone achieve. Is it that we just lack imagination or are leaders inherently corrupt? Or is there something impossible in the very idea? authoritarianism Roger ScrutoncomplexityNatalie BennettPhillip Blondregressive…
Academic Hacks
The pun of the headline was unintended. Anyway, here is a short interview with Susan in Psychology Today — BTW, I highly recommend her Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate. The quote below captures the bind that befalls many humanities academics and is therefore a major driver of their hackery — ostrich-ism: So, in the crudest career terms, yes,…
Islam and the Future of Tolerance: The Movie
If you are one of those anti-liberal sheep-like incoherent intersectional fuckwits who participated in- or uncritically supported- a mass march co-organized by a pro-Hamas Sharia law enthusiast, then this project won’t be for you. On the other hand if you are genuinely committed to liberalism (and women’s rights) please consider supporting this film. Ayaan Hirsi Alicultural marxismilliberalismislamLiberalismMaajid Nawazregressive leftsam harrisSarah Haider
Pete Overend Watts
God knows why we influenced all these people. Sometimes I can’t see what all the fuss is about. Maybe it’s that bit of magic. Maybe Mott The Hoople had that, I don’t know if it did or not. If people say they love Mott, I just can’t see it, I don’t know why. But it’s…
Kool Aid
My favourite song from my favourite band — highly recommend you seek them out if you are NOLA-based or just visiting. Andrew T. WeekesDeltaphonicmusicnew orleans
Bernard Williams on living long and living well
David Galloway in Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice The ‘tedium of immortality’ agingBernard WilliamsbordomDavid GallowaydeathMacropulos Casepersonal identityPhilosophy of mind
Microaggression and “I smell the blood of les tricoteuses”
Check out this symposium on microaggression featuring Scott Lilienfeld, Jonathan Haidt, Derald Wing Sue, and others in Perspectives on Psychological Science (all the papers are open access). While on a psychology note, the funniest and sadly, the most insightful tweet on this day in my feed, is from the Gadfather — shades of Trigglypuff Mk2? Aside from Gad, other notable voices of…
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