As philosophers, I believe we are charged above all with the need to not accept facts at face value, but to dig deeper to find the truth.
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Tag: Politics
What Owen Jones Almost Gets Right, I Mean Left
Owen Jones is a brilliant columnist for The Guardian. His writing is always worth a read. His most recent piece, “To move on, Labour must learn lessons from the left’s […]
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Terence McKenna on Ideology
Terence McKenna on Ideology “I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind […]
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Guy Fawkes: A Terrorist, Not A Hero
Guy Fawkes: Terrorist This is the face of a terrorist. Old New I chuckle when I see clowns with their comic book masks because they don’t understand who Guy Fawkes […]
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A Brief Exchange About What Israel Represents
I recently had this exchange with a Jewish friend about Zionism and Israel. In italics is his question/statement and below is my response. This brief exchange in no way solves […]
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Boris And The Home Stretch of The True Brexit Plan
Update on a story originally published on 13 Feb. 2019. The No-Deal Brexit Conspiracy is alive and well. All continues to unfold as planned. First, the earlier article that predicated […]
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The Memeocene: Memes and Humanity’s New Epoch
As human population and technology grows, there is increasing talk that we have entered a new epoch—the anthropocene or epoch of humans. The idea behind the appellation is to […]
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Sam Pizzigati’s Interesting Proposal On Income Tax Rates
Sam Pizzigati is an author who writes extensively about wealth, taxation, and the struggles of working people. Recently he penned an interesting article for CommonDreams.com, How Progressives Can Fix the […]
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Karl Marx on Making History
Karl Marx on Making History “People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under […]
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To Make Sense of the Brexit Mess, Think Deeper
One thing that most Leavers and Remainers can agree on is that the Brexit process has been a mess. Who is to blame for that mess is as contentious an […]
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