Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Roderick T. Long. What’s both startling and infuriating is how much currency the following arguments have: I don’t think >x people should live together in a house. But >x of these migrants are living together in various ho…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “If you’re anything like me, you’ll leave it with zero sympathy for all of the anti-immigrant fascists out there, less than zero sympathy for ICE, and an overwhelming sense of disgust at a country that can pursue proxy …

The world will need to adapt to increased temperatures. What can societies do to save lives?

In reply to Roderick T. Long. After the Dakota Pipeline protests, Cop City, and the Gaza Encampments, flower pots seem like unwarranted generosity. But I take his point. LikeLike

After I’m done with my “year off from blogging,” I’m thinking of doing a few thematically sustained blogging projects–series of interlinked posts on related topics rather than discrete ones on this and that. One of these i…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I was thinking in part of this line from Burroughs: “The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.” https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Vietnamdem.jpg/1200px-Vietna…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I’m still mulling over the relevance of William Burroughs to this post, and am guessing it’s his troubled lifelong relationship with law enforcement, as well as the irony of his exile in Mexico. https://en.wiki…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Okay, that came out a bit bigger than I’d intended …. LikeLike

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