Why outrage is justified (and ‘harsher policy’ poll questionable)
Two reasons we have right to feel outraged (even while culpable as citizens and ashamed). First, we cannot vote with...
from Golem’s inaugural lecture (Stanislaw Lem)
‘you yourselves will of course continue to emulate Evolution, but only in the region of its later creations, by constructing...
from Einstein’s ‘Relativity’
We imagine a large portion of empty space, so far removed from stars and other appreciable masses, that we have...
Why libertarianism’s absurd for (and hardly popular with) citizens in this country..
To embrace libertarianism, of any kind, is to say.. ‘Forget all the hard-won – very hard-won – gains of the...
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At t1 content represented by sentences of a text are evaluated against an existing or ground state of affairs provided...
note on heterodox narrative
Testimony, the retelling of an event, or a journey, is always a refutation of abstraction. Combined testimony represents a reclamation...
Brief Excerpts Exemplifying Rhetorical Styles
Laconic rhetoric (from Sparta) Unknown Soldier Funeral speech – Don Watson A Call to Arms (from Henry V) and...
Politics of and Approaches to Risk (an overview)
Politics and risk In the broadest sense the concept of security, or capable risk management, defines the range of services...
Mobilisation of the Philosophers
Valquez: Have you seen this? Samely: The paper? Valquez: Have you read it? Samely: I…...
Quotes from The Dosadi Experiment and The Whipping Star
from the pen of Frank Herbert A BuSab agent must begin by learning the linguistic modes and action limits (usually...