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September 2003
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Philosophy as selfcraft
Philosophy–not as an academic discipline–but as a spiritual discipline, and the West’s secular wisdom tradition. But what disciplines shall we practice now?
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The gospel of supply side Jesus
09.19.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on The gospel of supply side JesusIn the style of Jack Chick, a gospel cartoon tract by Al Franken.
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The boy as pietist
09.19.03 | Permalink | 2 CommentsImagine, if you will, that that the boy grew up raised by working class Pietists, not the middle class professionals you might imagine, and not by just one or two of them but by a whole village. Imagine then, if you will, that he is surrounded by this cloud of witnesses and lifted to leadership […]
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Tearing the soul
09.19.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Tearing the soulThe notion of the self as the tear in the soul strikes me as a bit Foucauldian. I’ll explain. Foucault concerned himself with three axes of inquiry: knowledge, power, and self-other. Knowledge was the focus of his early, “archeological” work, and looked a lot like the work of Thomas Kuhn. His work on power focused […]
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A Matrix reversed?
09.18.03 | Permalink | 4 CommentsAKMA asks what l the (Matrix) revolution will be. My $5K in Blogshares cash says that Zion is part of the Matrix, or rather, a shell matrix to the Matrix. That’s why Neo can control the squids outside. But more. My $5K says that the Matrix wasn’t built by AIs to control humans, but by […]
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