Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I post this every year around 9/11, so here it is again with some revisions. Today is the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. Here are a few of the lessons I’ve learned from two decades of perpetual warfare. I offer them somewhat dogmatically, as a mere laundry list (mostly) minus examples, but I have a feeling…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. An add-on thought: There’s a kind of odd asymmetry here. It seems more natural (insofar as it is natural) to cash mistreatment in terms of an appropriate response of anger than it is to do the same for just treatment, a…

Just a quick thought, but shouldn’t deserving not to be wronged be parasitic on positively deserving to be treated justly? In other words, why isn’t the latter the fundamental norm, and the former just the violation of this prior norm? Why …

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In reply to Roderick T. Long. You failed to note that you weren’t just described that way, but confessed to the description: For the most recent example, see Andrew Bernstein’s abject foray into Stalinist self-criticism for the sin of dari…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. In the interests of full disclosure, I should also report that I was once described on an Objectivist website as a “whacked-out, cynical, neo-postmodern fetishist orbiting around Sciabarra.” LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Yes, I revamped the site and deleted a whole host of posts. In part, this was due a shift in certain beliefs and a desire to start afresh, but admittedly I have failed to post regularly. Fortunately, I am blessed to read near…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. By omission, Sher looks like it. LikeLike