Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Can’t Burn Down Neapolis by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Thanks. Resolution of the mystery: I got it right when I first wrote the post, but glancing at it on the train the next morning, was somehow convinced that it “looked wrong,” hurriedly miscorrected it, and then…
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(xkcd.com) Planet Definitions
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Can’t Burn Down Neopolis by Roderick T. Long
This is a minor, picky point compared to the serious issues in your post, but I am no stranger to minor, picky points. So …Neapolis, not Neopolis. (Polis is feminine.)Mysteriously, you have it correct in the URL but not in the title or the body….
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Doom, gloom, Wilbur Weston, etc.
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Herb and Jamaal, 3/13/25 Ha, no, see, Herb’s mother-in-law, “doomscrolling” just means when you keep going through your…
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(Policy of Truth) You Can’t Burn Down Neapolis
Years ago, I went on a long road trip with a Palestinian friend, first to Nablus, then to Nazareth, and eventually to Haifa. Nablus wasn’t officially part of our itinerary; we really just stopped there en route to Nazareth to take a bathroom break. We parked the car by the Nasr Mosque in the middle…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Clean up your mess
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(QC RSS) Be Our Guest
we all saw it coming
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Think They Call This Fascism by Irfan Khawaja
This is a cheap shot, but very hard to resist: News from Punjab: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2530157/anti-rape-crisis-cell-inaugurated News from Washington, DC: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5290088/cdc-funding-delays…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Think They Call This Fascism by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. As a semantic matter, the problems with “authoritarianism” and “fascism” are exactly the same: there’s no difference there at all. Neither has a precise definition; both involve family resemblanc…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Think They Call This Fascism by Michael Young
I don’t think there are any substantive cognitive flaws in ‘authoritarian’. Sure, one might miss out on or gloss over particularly bad forms of authoritarianism (like totalitarianism or something like fascism). So don’t do that!…
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