Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Academic Hiring and Genocide by Let Them Eat One Another | Policy of Truth
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(Policy of Truth) Let Them Eat Each Other
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post here called “Academic Hiring and Genocide,” in which I argued that genocidaires should, at the very least, be excluded from academic life, but ideally should be excluded from gainful employment itself. Whatever anyone thought of the argument, readers might have wondered about its practical relevance. “So…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Elder Sunday
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! Crankshaft, 2/23/25 Wait, why does John need Crazy Harry’s help? By Spider-Man logic, if he had been bitten…
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(Policy of Truth) Complicity, Neutrality, Atrocity (2/5)
Stakeholders, Politicization, and Standing to Complain This is part 2 of a five part series. For part 1, go here. Background context: an institution accused of complicity in injustice counter-accuses its accusers of politicization and lack of standing. Start with the politicization objection. The Stakeholders have two separate responses here. Responding to the politicization objection.…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Baffled Saturday
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! Mark Trail, 2/22/25 Cherry’s family drama turned out to be even more dramatic than anticipated, and, as Mark…
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(Policy of Truth) Complicity, Neutrality, Atrocity (1/5)
Complicity and the Strategy of Evasion Imagine that an institution (“the Institution”) maintains a set of investments in various enterprises that make a clear and demonstrable contribution to some indisputable injustice. Now suppose that a set of stakeholders (“the Stakeholders”) object to these investments, calling on the Institution to divulge the facts in a fuller…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part I: What Logistics?
This is the first part of our [I don’t know; a few?] part series looking at the Siege of Eregion sequence from the second season of Amazon’s Rings of Power and what we can learn by pointing out its missteps. And I’m not going to bury the lede here: this entire sequence is a mess.…
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