Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

[…] wrote most of this essay before yesterday’s terrorist attack in Peshawar, and have written too often about terrorism in Pakistan to want to dwell on the latest catastrophe. But I have that […] LikeLike

[…] shown extraordinary courage over the course of their careers. They’ve fought and in part won a decades-long fight for democracy and civilian rule in Pakistan, and have endured their share of defamations, and done […] LikeLike

The last time I was in Pakistan, back in January of 2012, my cousin Sa’ad threw me a big, lavish party the evening before my departure. I have a very large extended family, much of it based in Lahore, and just about everyone from Lahore, it seemed, was there–aunts, uncles, first cousins, first cousins once…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Me being my usual ill-tempered self: NB: Glitch in Comments Function LikeLike

In reply to butimbeautiful. It’s visible. The comments function has been a pain in the ass lately. I originally pinned a post warning users about it, but I got tired of looking at it, so I took it down. Do you write on a Mac? That seems to cause issues…

Btw, what’s with the ‘unable to show this comment ‘? Three comments on your post and all invisible? LikeLike

A significant and perhaps growing number of people in Australia and other western countries (?) don’t subscribe to the Israeli narrative, supported by the media. Possibly partly… ironically… because trumpism etc has undermined faith i…