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Repost with addendum. Thoughtlets. XXXI.
Resistance is not raising up an army and trading fire, by that time too many have needlessly suffered — as will many more. Resistance is inviting someone you’ve been taught (and are expected) to hate to your table and treating her as a friend. The people you need to resist, to this end, are your… Continue reading
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It’s for these moments …
Some people think I miss the world by viewing it through my camera lens. I disagree. Rather, through my lens I become very intimate with the world. Continue reading
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Theme change on my blog.
I’m in the midst of making some changes. It’ll take a bit of experimenting to find the best theme for my blog. This one will do for now. Continue reading
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Addendum to: The Political Rhetor and the Future. 6.2.b. Children.
Addendum to: The Political Rhetor and the Future. 6.2.b. Children: The concept of “child/children” appears to have been changing along with technology and globalisation. But adults change, too. We’re the ones studying children, reporting on them, hypothesising about them, and rearing them! — and we have the technological means to distribute these worries and observations.… Continue reading
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Thoughtlets. LXXIII. On the moral connotations of rationality
[Excerpt from my writing archives followed by a footnote.] …‘Rational’ not only indicates the right, correct, approved, reasonable, or sensible way of thinking, but also the term invariably means the right thinking and goodness of the author or speaker. Hence ‘rational’ also has moral connotations.[1] [1] Morally reprehensible people, on some conceptions, include those who allow themselves to… Continue reading
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Thoughtlets. LXXII. Duh.
Cherry-picked from the Wall of Banalities just for you: According to which criteria, and whose, do the good and right believers set themselves apart from the ignorant masses? Most, if not all, of us can claim some particular sliver of expertise, gleaned from years of experience, concerning some shred of knowledge or skill in some… Continue reading
