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• Introducing Saturday Morning Pam-Toons (includes links)

  By pammentations on September 26, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Tune in to pam-mentations.com every Saturday at 7 a.m. MT for the latest Pam-toon. Pam-toons provide a quirky commentary on philosophical and social & political issues. Plato’s Tent Revival. Buridan’s Ass. Before the Censors Had At It. One Day at… Read More ›

• Thoughtlets. xxiv.

  By pammentations on October 12, 2020 • ( 0 )

  It’s good epistemic practice not only to have gatekeepers in science and scholarship, but also to have others beating at the gates to ensure the freedom of movement of ideas – using a battering ram, if required. In which measure… Read More ›

• There is a season, turn, turn, turn

  By pammentations on October 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Amid the usual crackling leaves, candy wrappers, and cigarette butts that line the city sidewalks in the fall, I find a new thing.

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Plato’s Tent Revival. (scroll down)

  By pammentations on October 10, 2020 • ( 1 )

  ‘Well, that is what I call the child of the good’, I said. ‘The good has begotten it in its own likeness, and it bears the same relation to sight and visible objects in the visible realm that the good… Read More ›

• On Interrupting and Myopia

  By pammentations on October 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Some people who think it rude when interrupted don’t think it rude to exclude the interrupter from a conversation. Sometimes interrupting is the only way to get a word in edgewise. I am NOT talking about the 2020 US presidential… Read More ›

• Thoughtlets .xxiii.

  By pammentations on October 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Just as one man’s junk is another’s treasure, one man’s villain is another’s hero.

• Why do social patterns perdure?

  By pammentations on October 6, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  “Perhaps there is a sort of cycle in all things, with changes of morality coming around again like seasonal changes.” Tacitus. The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero. Oxford World’s Classics. Translated by J.C. Yardley. Introduction and notes by… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Buridan’s Ass.

  By pammentations on October 3, 2020 • ( 1 )

• Thoughtlets .xxii.

  By pammentations on October 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Look below a grand narrative, e.g. left vs right, dark vs light, and you will discover people doing the best they can with the circumstances in which they find themselves.

• Thoughltets .xxi.

  By pammentations on September 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Creative thinkers are often detached from social constraints. Some people detached from social constraints are psychopaths. And so, is the video-gamer in your basement on the verge of a scientific breakthrough or his next kill?

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