Philosophers tend not to argue about their views, either in the quarrelsome or the lawyerly sense of the word. We strive, and usually succeed, at giving each other “a fair…
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nationalism
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There is no such thing as ‘higher thought.’ That’s a misnomer humans have given the evolution of symbolic thought. The crisis of human consciousness boils down to the question: Can…
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As I approach my main meditation place, I’m shocked to see a young woman performing fallatio on a young man in a hammock. Dismayed, I walk upstream to an alternate…
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After a slew of presidentially incited pipe bombs sent to two former presidents and Trump-targeted Democrats, and the worst act anti-Semitism (also presidentially incited) in the nation’s history with the…
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A palpable pall hung over the land yesterday, the 4th of July, the day America celebrates its birth as a nation. Ostensibly from uncontained wildfires in the region, the pallor…
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The great, dying sycamore is now shedding limbs like a leper, but buds still sprout from its remaining branches this spring. The sky is an incredible blue, a blue that…
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The notion that thinking together implies conformity and groupthink is as wrongheaded as the idea that conflict, argumentation and resistance are the wellspring of creativity.
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“We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you…