Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Some of My Poems by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to boydstun. Thanks. Interesting list. For some reason, I always enjoy reading lists of this sort. My favorite poem is Wordsworth’s Preludes. Nothing really compares to it. Likewise many of Wordsworth’s other poems. I guess I’…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Western Civilization or Universal Culture or WEIRD Culture? by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to sean samis. My quarrel isn’t so much with modern health care as it with Alexander’s facile understanding of “Western culture.” The criterion of “what works,” by itself, is meaningless. “What works&#…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Western Civilization or Universal Culture or WEIRD Culture? by Irfan Khawaja
Sean, You’ve repeated this claim over and over, but you haven’t presented anything like an argument for it: PS: philosophy is not a “branch of knowledge” at all. It is an argumentative pastime devoid of knowledge, possessing only claims an…
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(Policy of Truth) What to the Palestinian is the Fourth of July?
Barely a word about this in the mainstream American media. Barely a word about it from libertarian defenders of property rights. But lots of caterwauling about “cancel culture” and Critical Race Theory, and lots of empty rhetoric about the “freedom” we brought the world with the Revolution of 1776.* Israel has sent demolition notices to…
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(John McWhorter | The Atlantic) Even <em>Trigger Warning</em> Is Now Off-Limits
The “Oppressive Language List” at Brandeis University could have come from countless other colleges, advocacy groups, or human-resources offices.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Also: I agree with you about instrumental stupidity on the part of management. As will become more and more obvious as low-skill jobs fade in favor of robots, retraining costs are a big part of the ballgame. So you gotta keep…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The Man, The Boss, The System. Not me. Definitely not user error. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Briefly (response to your response to my [3])… So I guess you are agreeing with my left-wing social-justice-y respect of injustice (entirely distinct from any injustice from wages not corresponding to degree of producti…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Reply to your reply to my [2] here. This is quite helpful. I caught at least one important error in what I had to say earlier. And I clearly needed to think about this stuff some more! (i) The most important question here …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. You have Editor status, so you should be able to edit your comments. I blame The Man for this shit. LikeLike
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