Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to butimbeautiful. It’s the other way around! It’s the sandworm that sounds like the shamir! Beware of cultural appropriation! Granted, “cultural appropriation” is a funny accusation coming from a lapsed Muslim function…

The Shamir sounds a bit like the sandworm thingy in Dune. LikeLike

In reply to butimbeautiful. “So I am wrong.” I think so, but others disagree, even among the bloggers right here at PoT. Partly it’s a matter of different experiences. I have had a few mild run-ins with left-wing zealots, but my real …

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. So I am wrong. Glad to hear it. Universities in Australia also seem to be corporatised, in particular by their reliance on huge numbers of foreign students who pay through the nose for their degrees and so have to be passed. …

From a Passover service at my synagogue: the rabbi, expounding on Exodus 33, is sent on a long digression, via a question from the congregation, to the story of Solomon’s “shamir.” The question was about “rule worship” in the Hebrew Bible. The shamir was the mythical worm or caterpillar whose mucus was used by King…

In reply to butimbeautiful. Here’s my short answer. In general, I think diversity and inclusion are good things, in higher education and elsewhere, for all the reasons JS Mill gives in On Liberty. But diversity is not an end in itself. Its value …

So you’re saying I should have suicide bombed Joyce Carol Oates? Like I don’t have enough problems as it is? LikeLike

What’s your view on diversity, inclusion etc etc in unis? It seems to me, and here I guess I’m lumping myself in with the ignorant masses, that universities have pretty much abandoned freedom of intellectual enquiry, at least in the humanit…

I think this project helped me view writing as a process. The initial construction to the comic version to the final version was a process that changed the way that I viewed my narrative and understood what I wanted to share. I think that the story is different because it is premised on the focus…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Thanks, we might look into that. LikeLike