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May 1, 2025

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

Political Rhetoric

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March 8, 2025

The Political Rhetor and The Future. 6.2.c.i. Future Generations: The end of ‘my’ world versus the end of ‘the’ world.

To help you navigate political rhetoric. This post is largely analytic compared to the previous two research dense entries in this series. In this entry, I examine a broad swath of the conceptual territory underpinning future generations. Since this topic is particularly content-dense, I’ve decided to break this blog entry into several posts under a Continue reading

Political Rhetoric, Social and Political Commentary

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March 7, 2025

The Political Rhetor and the Future. 6.2.b. Children

To help you navigate political rhetoric. This entry is a long read, but it’s quite interesting. (This post was originally published in 2020. I’ve done some light editing and ensured the links are active.) “Preparing for the future must begin, as always, with our children.” Children have little to no political voice. They can neither Continue reading

Political Rhetoric, Social and Political Commentary

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February 24, 2022

Bread and Circuses

(Originally posted 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. Thomas Hobbes observed that “If any two men [sic] desire the same thing, Continue reading

Social and Political Commentary

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April 28, 2021

Thoughlets. XLIV.

Do you ever wonder what future generations will look like? Look in a mirror. You are the future generations of those who lived before you. And do you ever wonder what future future generations will think of you and your ilk? Well, since you are a future generation, and since, cf Hume, the future resembles Continue reading

Philosophy, Political Rhetoric, Thoughtlets

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January 3, 2021

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

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 Continue reading

Pam-Toons

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November 21, 2020

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Retrain?

Resume EduCCATION — Grade 8 WORK EXPEANE (experience) – Labour 49 YRs [The writing is authentic.] Continue reading

Pam-Toons

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November 20, 2020

Of Flocks and Wings

Lurking somewhere in the back of our adult brains is every mother’s admonition If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you? Don’t blindly follow your friends. Sometimes this warning is made explicit. When I went to university in my 40s, my seventy-five-year-old Dad worried that I would cease to think for myself. And so he gave Continue reading

Catch-All

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September 18, 2020

Thoughtlets .vii.

Here’s some advice that’s helped me get through life: 1) Life isn’t fair and, 2) You won’t like everyone and not everyone will like you. I doubt I could share this advice with people engaged in and enraged by contemporary social movements. Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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May 14, 2019

The day the Russians nuked my sawmill camp. A survivor’s memoir.

Prelude: After 44 years, my memory of this late cold-war-era event is not perfect. But it left an impression that planted seeds for my future interest in social epistemology, the social dimension of knowledge. Perhaps as something like Y2K will do for others. ‘Epistemic’ means pertaining to what we know, how we know, and so Continue reading

Catch-All

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