George Orwell.
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30 January 2009
Liberty
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
George Orwell.
George Orwell.
Cause of the depression?
Maybe one cause of this depression is that everyone has bought enough shit already.
Look we've bought loads and loads of shit. We haven't got room for any more shit.
We have shit falling out of our windows. We can't afford any more and we haven't got any room for any more shit.
Look we've bought loads and loads of shit. We haven't got room for any more shit.
We have shit falling out of our windows. We can't afford any more and we haven't got any room for any more shit.
29 January 2009
On Swearing
I don't have any problem with any kind of swearing.
It's just words.
Like my friend Darren always says: "Fuck 'em all!"
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To be continued.
Swearing is just a primitive taboo.
In normal countries like France swearing as a concept does not exist in the same way that it has done in England, and note I say England and not the UK.
It's just words.
Like my friend Darren always says: "Fuck 'em all!"
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To be continued.
Swearing is just a primitive taboo.
In normal countries like France swearing as a concept does not exist in the same way that it has done in England, and note I say England and not the UK.
18 January 2009
15 January 2009
No Third Runway!
The battle has only just begun.
No Third Runway!
It is not necessary or beneficial for anyone.
No Third Runway!
It is not necessary or beneficial for anyone.
"Tomorrow Belongs to the Madmen of Today"
"Que amanhã é dos loucos de hoje". Fernando Pessoa.
"Tomorrow belongs to the madmen of today". Fernando Person.
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I stress that I believe there to be no such thing as madmen strictly speaking.
Unless you count Ian Paisley and people like that.....:)
"Tomorrow belongs to the madmen of today". Fernando Person.
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I stress that I believe there to be no such thing as madmen strictly speaking.
Unless you count Ian Paisley and people like that.....:)
12 January 2009
Great film - "Defiance"
Saw a great film with some friends after work yesterday - "Defiance."
Very impressed by it. Good acting by everyone in it.
Another reason I like it is because it's a true story.
And an amazing true story too.
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"Defiance" - do your worst!
"Freedom begins with an act of defiance."
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"I do not fear death. I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice.... I am ready wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring."
Malalai Joya, Afghan politician and human rights campaigner.
6 January 2009
Radical Humanism and Radical Forgiveness
I believe in a radical humanism. We are all human....
And I believe in a radical forgiveness.
We make mistakes. We need forgiveness.
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Just discovered this magazine: Radical Philosophy.
www.radicalphilosophy.com/-
And I believe in a radical forgiveness.
We make mistakes. We need forgiveness.
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Just discovered this magazine: Radical Philosophy.
www.radicalphilosophy.com/-
3 January 2009
Political compass?
The above red dot shows where I came out when I took the "political compass" test.
1 January 2009
Excellent Book
"Climbing Out of Depression: A Short, Practical Guide on How to Recover from Depression."
by Sue Atkinson is an excellent book.
"Tidy-minded"
I have heard it said by English academics that the continentals, particularly the French, are too rationalist and "tidy-minded".
A Cambridge sociologist used those precise words - "tidy-minded" - to me with regard to Maurice Duverger the French political scientist.
This view could perhaps see this French tendency as maybe not empirical enough - too logical and systematic. The continentals supposedly don't allow for the imperfections and exceptions of the real world etc.
Yet then at the same time it is contended that the continentals are not logical enough because they have space for existentialism and literature as philosophy and other such irrationality, whereas the English-speaking world is devoted to analytic philosophy with all its precision and logic.
The conventional view is that the Analytical philosophers are logical and the Continentals illogical.
Whereas - the Continentals see themselves as rational and the English as irrational; and the English think the French are "tidy-minded" and over-rational.
How to make sense of this tangle of apparent contradictions?
The English seem to think the Coninentals and/or French are over-logical or illogical and the French and/or Continentals think the English are not logical or perhaps over-logical as well.
The English think the French are irrational because of things like existentialism.
Yet the French are regarded as rationalists as opposed to English empiricism; and the French tend to think that the English are not intellectual.
I think there are things to be said in defence of both sides of this dispute.
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I parade myself here as a rationalist. Yet I have obvious sympathies with existentialism.
I think that it is impossible to entirely separate philosophy from life, as we live it.
I think that good philosophy should help people how to live.
A contradiction? Not necessarily. Existentialism is not always entirely irrational.
Existentialism is still an interesting philosophical tendency.
Also, according to Sartre, "Existentialism is a humanism".
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A Cambridge sociologist used those precise words - "tidy-minded" - to me with regard to Maurice Duverger the French political scientist.
This view could perhaps see this French tendency as maybe not empirical enough - too logical and systematic. The continentals supposedly don't allow for the imperfections and exceptions of the real world etc.
Yet then at the same time it is contended that the continentals are not logical enough because they have space for existentialism and literature as philosophy and other such irrationality, whereas the English-speaking world is devoted to analytic philosophy with all its precision and logic.
The conventional view is that the Analytical philosophers are logical and the Continentals illogical.
Whereas - the Continentals see themselves as rational and the English as irrational; and the English think the French are "tidy-minded" and over-rational.
How to make sense of this tangle of apparent contradictions?
The English seem to think the Coninentals and/or French are over-logical or illogical and the French and/or Continentals think the English are not logical or perhaps over-logical as well.
The English think the French are irrational because of things like existentialism.
Yet the French are regarded as rationalists as opposed to English empiricism; and the French tend to think that the English are not intellectual.
I think there are things to be said in defence of both sides of this dispute.
.....
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I parade myself here as a rationalist. Yet I have obvious sympathies with existentialism.
I think that it is impossible to entirely separate philosophy from life, as we live it.
I think that good philosophy should help people how to live.
A contradiction? Not necessarily. Existentialism is not always entirely irrational.
Existentialism is still an interesting philosophical tendency.
Also, according to Sartre, "Existentialism is a humanism".
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