Tag: humanity

  • Political human life.

    Hello. I feel like I made a really good point in my last post, so I wanted to make another post to emphasize it ! Human life is not something that exists outside of the political domain. Which is just to say, in so much as we have a government, and in so much as…

  • Confirm Humanity

    I just did a captcha. And, I’ve seen it before, but for some reason this morning it was phrased a little differently, the reason why we have to do those, and it just said “Confirm humanity”. 😎 I think it’s totally great and it’s totally funny at the same time. But this morning it just…

  • Adorno on Pleasure: The Critique of Psychoanalysis

    Theodor Adorno, the Arch-curmudgeon of the Frankfurt School of Critical theory, devotes a brief but substantial section of his Minima Moralia to a … Adorno on Pleasure: The Critique of Psychoanalysis ———- A mix of critique and psychoanalysis. Interestingly enough, I finally read Walter Benjamin’s “art in the age of mechanical reproduction”. I never realized…

  • Essential Alcohol part 2

    Think about it a moment… Yes. There was Failed Prohibition in the early 20th century US. Why did it fail ? … actually take this moment and think about the reason why liquor stores Are considered an essential business and are allowed to stay open. And think about it’s because that people would freak out…

  • Alcohol is Essential

    In Colorado, liquor stores and marijuana dispensaries have been designated by the state to be essential businesses. And this is because at first on the state shut down, liquor stores were closed, they were considered not essential and so we’re closed. But basically, the governor realized that people are so addicted to alcohol that it…

  • The Urge

    The Urge https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2019/11/23/the-urge/ — Read on evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2019/11/23/the-urge/

  • Post-trauma: Humans as blackboxes, machines as transparent

    Humans as blackboxes, machines as transparent Humans as blackboxes, machines as transparent — Read on markcarrigan.net/2019/11/11/humans-as-blackboxes-machines-as-transparent/ Interesting problematic. What might this say about us, that we might look to machines and thier analysis of behavioral data to tell us what’s going inside a human being? I tend to agree with the impetus of the excerpt; that…

  • Orientation: Being in a world is the Crisis

    This is a Crisis This is a Crisis — Read on syntheticzero.net/2019/07/07/this-is-a-crisis/ Of course no one will read this because of the reason this post contains; it describes what the people who wont read this, as well as the people who do, do. And are. Have yo fiveu ever had a recyclable item that you used…

  • Clean Shave, by CSP – and other postmodern avoidance.

    What is the relationship between art and philosophy? That is the issue I treat. In “The Postmodern Condition”, Jean-Francois Lyotard speaks of this dichotomy in terms of ‘narrative’ and ‘scientific’ discourses. Emmanuel Kant speaks of the difference between Practical and Pure reason. And others also divide essential Being into dichotomous factions and never seem to…

  • The Story; On the Big Story: An Aphilosophical Non-philosophical Philosophical Rendition.

    Let’s see how much people like stories. I investigate here the Big Story of the Bible as it may concern human history. I will try to fill in the Story with what I see as human course. In a way, it is a story of the Big Story, which amounts, I guess, to a type…