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January 16, 2025

Doing our doxastic labour together (vetting candidates for beliefs with our peeps) 1 of 4

This post is comprised of some slightly retooled old work (published in 2019, then unpublished). It might just win the banality award (although it’s made some people angry). But some might find it interesting. Some of my references are a bit out of date now, but are still useful. Note: Doxa is belief or opinion. Continue reading

Philosophy, Political Rhetoric, Social and Political Commentary

belief, companionship, delectation, doxa, doxastic, epistemology, friends, mattering, mutual, opinion, peeps, Philosophy, politics, psychology, religion, shame, social, social epistemology, survival, trust
January 8, 2025

“Continual spies upon their neighbours…” — Thomas Hobbes today

“Continual spies upon their neighbours…is a posture of war.” “It may seem strange to some man that has not well weighed these things that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference, made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same Continue reading

Philosophy, Social and Political Commentary

control, enforcement, government, history, Hobbes, hypervigilance, information, mistrust, Philosophy, political-philosophy, privacy, safety, security, surveilance, technology, Thomas Hobbes, trust, vigilance
January 8, 2025

Thoughtlets LVII. Thomas Hobbes & Antonio Damasio

Two barebones comparisons of quotes from Chapter II of Antonio Damasio’s Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain and Part I: Chapter 13 of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. Note: On Damasio’s view emotion and feeling are separate entities, although emotion both underpins and is intricately related to feeling. Emotions are “collections of reflex responses, Continue reading

Philosophy, Social and Political Commentary, Thoughtlets

cognitive science, conservation, damasio, delectation, emotion, Hobbes, Law, morality, neuroscience, passions, Philosophy, rhetoric, war, well-being
November 28, 2024

Another old poem

This poem is an amalgam of a few people I was privileged to know during my formative years and just beyond. The hand in the photo — resting on oilcloth — belongs to a beloved friend (deceased), the last occupant of an old mill camp. The Stone What story in her face isn’t being told? Continue reading

Arts and Leisure

aging, elderly, formative, isolation, lonliness, memory, narrative, nostaglia, photo, poem, poetry, story
November 20, 2024

Saturday Morning Pam-Toons. A hitherto unpublished 2020 US ‘election decision’ ‘Toon. *with Nov 21 addendum

[*Addendum, Nov 21/24. The problem with leaving this ‘toon for such a long time is I’d forgotten everything going on in my head when I sketched it. The over (outward) and under (inward) installation of the toilet paper rolls is a statement about political polarisation. In fact there are people who have stronger views about Continue reading

Pam-Toons, Political Rhetoric, Social and Political Commentary

2020, Biden, covid, election, election industry, graphic, humor, humour, industry, lock down, media, pandemic, pencil, roll, satire, satirical, sketch, tissue, toilet paper, Trump, under, USA
November 20, 2024

A look back at Covid 2020 – 2022 through Saturday Morning Pam-Toons.

What the heck was that?! A look back at Covid 2020 – 2022 through my Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Covid 5896 BC First published 7 Nov 2020. Republished 17 Jan 2022. Full post here: https://pam-mentations.com/2022/01/17/saturday-morning-pam-toons-covid-5896bc/ Plague Spreader 13 Feb 2021. Published January 17, 2022. Full post here: https://pam-mentations.com/2022/01/17/saturday-morning-pam-toons-plague-spreader/ Love-sick and isolated by covid, Mrs. Fiklesbrank finally Continue reading

Pam-Toons, Social and Political Commentary

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November 12, 2024

Thoughtlets. LVII. Travel.

Over the years, I’ve so often heard people dispense with the advice to travel the world to broaden one’s horizons. Open your mind, see how other people live, get out of your little bubble, they say. Usually with eyes half closed, as if their lids give weight to their words. But might these advisors be Continue reading

Thoughtlets

advice, experience, poverty, tourism, tourist, travel
September 28, 2024

Three Poems From An Old Stash

I wrote these unpublished poems about two decades ago. Where did the time go? Booting up my old computer felt like cracking open a time capsule. – Pam Lindsay The Scream Everybody ducked well, not ducked so much as cringed, squatted a little, not as sharp and shallow as a flinch, more like a startle, Continue reading

Arts and Leisure

creative writing, death, fashion, poems, poetry, release, scream, suicide, wind
August 31, 2024

Forest of Knowledge. Beatnik Philosophy.

Complementing an academic’s freedom to dissent is the maximal removal of impediments to her pursuit of hypotheses and matters of fact about the stuff that furnishes the universe and of the universe itself. This stuff undergirds the core investigations of philosophy: what exists (ontology); what, and how, can we know (epistemology); and how shall we Continue reading

Arts and Leisure, Catch-All, Philosophy, Social and Political Commentary

academia, academic freedom, academy, beatnik, disputation, dissent, epistemology, fact, fiction, forest, investigation, investigations, knowledge, ontology, Philosophy, poetry, political, prose, social
August 23, 2024

The Right(eous)ness of the Wronged: A Powerful Tool of Persuasion.

Righteous anger motivates personal crusades just as it does a march of thousands, even hundreds of thousands. *Herein, I use rhetor, orator speaker and writer interchangeably. Likewise for the words hearer, audience, judger, and reader. An overview of what Aristotle means by rhetoric and some of its features is helpful here. Aristotle defines rhetoric as, Continue reading

Philosophy, Political Rhetoric, Social and Political Commentary

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