1 December 2010

Some Recent Filosofical Hilarity


Just perusing "Zoo" magazine's "Real Girl Of The Year 2010!" competition. (For research only I assure you.) It's an odd title. Are they saying that Lucy Pinder for example is in some way not "real"?  I'll ask Baudrillard. 


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I was feeling so fluey yesterday that I bought "Fishermans' Friend" tablets for the first time ever. That stuff is hardcore. The fisherman who invented them must have got fecking wet at some point. 


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We're supposed to be some kind of advanced industrial civilisation. But a little bit of snow and it's like the Dark Ages all over again. Which is probably an improvement in some ways.


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‎"Spinoza... would collect and train spiders to fight with one another and watch them doing so with gusto."   


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‎"Bede is the only Englishman who made it into Dante's "Paradiso". 

Some might consider this a little too generous."

 

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‎"The true aim of government is liberty." 

Benedict Spinoza.

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