Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Double Double Toil and Trouble
[cross-posted at POT and facebook] Future historians will look back at the history of the u.s. in the 20th (and early 21st) century with the gravest suspicion. According to the received chronology, they’ll note: From 1901 to 1909, a president named Roosevelt, formerly governor of New York, held office, promoting policies of corporate elitism in…
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(Policy of Truth) Election Day Ditty
An anthem for this special day.
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(Policy of Truth) Double Double Toil and Trouble
Future historians will look back at the history of the u.s. in the 20th (and early 21st) century with the gravest suspicion. According to the received chronology, they’ll note: From 1901 to 1909, a president named Roosevelt, formerly governor of New York, held office, promoting policies of corporate elitism in the guise of economic populism.…
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(QC RSS) Run-On
If you can vote in the USA and have not voted already, please vote for Joe Biden today. The future of our democracy is at stake. Thank you.
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on If I Don’t Vote, You Can’t Complain by Roderick
In reply to Roderick. “I just don’t understand how the violent felons that have to be pulled out of bad neighbourhoods can be warehoused if there are no police to collect evidence against them.” If only there were some anarchist research on…
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(Radical Classical Liberals) Libertarians Should Support a Politics of Place (and Vote Local)
I’m reading Ezra Klein’s book Why We’re Polarized with my students this semester and while I disagree with some of his prescriptions, his diagnosis seems accurate and at least one prescription seems particularly powerful: the importance of building a politics of place. Klein’s overall point, which I think is mostly right, is that our focus…
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(Our World in Data) Less than half of young Americans voted in the last presidential election
40% of eligible voters in the US did not vote in the 2016 election. Young Americans in particular often do not exercise their right to vote – less than half of eligible under-30s voted in the last election.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on EVS Journal (1): Kill ‘Em All by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Meanwhile, in a Parallel Election by Meanwhile, in a Parallel Election | Austro-Athenian Empire
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Meanwhile, in a Parallel Election
[cross-posted on POT, RCL, and facebook] I voted! No, not in the u.s. election – Ἀθηνᾶ κρείττων! Nah, I voted for which book we will read next in the Auburn Science Fiction and Philosophy Reading Group. This was a more cheerful and civilised affair than the u.s. election in at least seven ways: 1. Minority…
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