Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Well, you are not the only one to call it “Camelback Mountain”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelback_Mountain_(Big_Pocono) And in fact the official name of the ski resort there is “Camelback Mountain Reso…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. You’re absolutely right that “Camelback” is not a mountain. I’m glad you caught that so fast. It was meant to be an inside joke intended only for myself. I didn’t think anyone would notice. Th…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. I haven’t read Casino Royale. I saw the 2006 film version with Alison, starring Daniel Craig and Eva Green, her two absolute favorites. Bond is tortured in that one, but the depiction is preposterous–reminds me…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. What a mortifying scene. I recognize Le Carré. I might well have converted Alison to Le Carré with a character like this. LikeLiked by 1 person

In reply to Roderick T. Long. By the way, Le Carré himself had a cameo in The Night Manager. He’s the older gentleman that Hiddleston apologises to in the following clip. (The context is that the villain’s drunken henchman Corky suspects,…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Incidentally, in the very first James Bond novel, Casino Royale — written before Fleming’s writing had begun being influenced by the movies based on his books — Bond is tortured mid-story and, at least in…

A powerful and compelling post. It seems rather trivial to raise lesser points, but I raise them anyway: a) “Make Bond any race or gender you like. The one thing he could never be is a gardener.” In the movie GoldenEye, a character actuall…

Thanks for that post, David. I did read SMPIP — and got a lot out of doing so. Though Gaus does not explicitly say so, I think he is of the following school of opinion, at least with regard to moral normativity: (*) the normativity here comes fro…