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• Thoughtlets. xxxi.

  By pammentations on January 26, 2021 • ( 2 )

  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… Read More ›

• Thoughtlets. xxx.

  By pammentations on January 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  What some forget is that, like it or not, the military is social. It’s embedded in a polity, and it’s just one of many familiar social and political institutions therein. There exists no impenetrable wall with soldiers on one side… Read More ›

• Thoughtlets. xxix.

  By pammentations on January 26, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Today’s Thoughtlet is a quote on freedom of expression that originates with Tacitus, a Roman historian who lived in the first century CE. This quote, translated as follows, appears in Latin on the title page of the first edition of Hume’s… Read More ›

• Bread and Circuses

  By pammentations on January 25, 2021 • ( 0 )

  (Oct. 24, 2020) Somewhere around the second century CE, the Roman satirist Juvenal coined the phrase ‘bread and circuses’ which has come to mean placating one’s populace with cheap bribes to distract them from their political grievances. Here’s the logic…. Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. What’s Your Sign?

  By pammentations on January 23, 2021 • ( 1 )

  The central image is a pencil sketch modelled on a photo of three children who died of starvation in Russia, 1921.**(see citation) Carnetarian, 20 Jan. – 18 Feb.; Pescatarian 18 Feb. – 20 Mar.; Pollotarian 21 Mar. – 20 Apr.;… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Be Your Authentic Self.

  By pammentations on January 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  You’ve nothing to fear. See also Thoughtlets. iii.

• ‘Freedom’ is Not a Well-Formed Formula

  By pammentations on January 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Freedom! is a common rallying cry that some pledge to fight to the death to defend. And do. So it might be a tad unseemly to point out that ‘freedom’ is not a well-formed formula. By which is meant ‘freedom’… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Uncovering An Implicit Bias.

  By pammentations on January 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  I recommend Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on Implicit Bias. Brownstein, Michael, “Implicit Bias”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2019/entries/implicit-bias/ (*link repaired — P)

• Thoughtlets. xxviii.

  By pammentations on January 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  It’s no small annoyance whenever an interlocutor stops to evaluate whether what I have just said falls on the political left or the right. In so doing she’s pegging me to a side. And once pegged, in her mind, whether… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. The University of Backyard Sleepovers.

  By pammentations on January 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  At U.B.S., 8-year-olds archive banned words for posterity. We honour Children’s Ways of Being and Children’s Ways of Knowing. See, Paranormal Activism And, A Speakeasy in the Age of Prohibition

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