What do Ice Cube, NWA, and Julius Evola have in common? Well, not much actually. But let’s play a game. girl: “Ice Cube, do you think you could give me some money to get my hair done?” ice cube: “How short’s your hair right now?” girl: “Well you know I get it done every week, […]
Philosophy
9 Paragraphs on the dialectic of gas fracking, sea turtles, and discursive empathy
So, why is it that progressive environmentalists, and traditionalist conservatives, can’t even discuss much less than see eye to eye on things affecting their common futures?
5 Principles of Conflict, from Saul Alinsky
Conflict is a constant in this world; it has intellectual, physical, and indeed metaphysical dimensions. Authors who distill life experiences – and past archives of pragmatic principial knowledge – in the arena of conflict for the benefit of one audience may be extremely useful reading. Books are tools and potentially weapons, take for example Curzio […]
So, did V. I. Lenin really say ‘Destroy the Family, You Destroy the Country’?
“The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it’s difficult to discern whether or not they are genuine.” – attributed to Abraham Lincoln, 1761. Many very well meaning people, through a partial breakdown of critical thinking, find themselves peddling along themes quotes and ideas that they haven’t fully verified. So what of this quote: […]