What is knowledge, and how do we know? How do we come to know what we know. Each civilization has arrived to conclusions on these matters, some give weight to certain answers over others. To understand the intellectual atmosphere in the world of Classical Old Islam you should understand a basic distinction between two modes […]
History
George Orwell on Background Music
“..I have no doubt that, all over the world, hundreds of pleasure resorts similar to the one described above are now being planned, and perhaps are even being built. It is unlikely that they will be finished-world events will see to that-but they represent faithfully enough the modern civilised man’s idea of pleasure. Something of […]
Some quotes, future forcasts, from Strategic Trends 2007-2036
“Kamal, that’s like totally boring !!!” So, I am reading “Strategic Trends 2007-2036” a document of near future forecasts made by the UK’s Ministry of Defense DCDC Directorate General. I’m also reading a few other interesting bureaucratic pearls that I might post about later. So, you should check it out. Why? Well, I find it […]
the Duende and Romantic Love (from Upton’s Shadow of the Rose)
“Romantic love is much more, however, than the union of sexuality and affection, since this union itself requires a sublimation and refinement of soul. Nor is romantic love necessarily young love, nor adulterous love, nor love framed by war, nor even passionate love in the usual sense. Rather, it is that mode of love which […]