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April 30, 2021

Thought experiment: the last humans. (Thoughtlets. XL.)

Thought experiment. Imagine some cosmic event renders all humans sterile. After a number of decades pass, humankind literally enters a Golden Age, with an exclusively senior population. Although, ‘senior’ might lose its current meaning when the youngest among us is 64. I wonder if those in good health will resent the burden of care imposed Continue reading

Philosophy, Thoughtlets

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April 24, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Guest Post M. K. Sometimes Work Does Make Freedom.

In debates between energy and the environment, nuance is too often lost. See also, Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Retrain? Continue reading

Pam-Toons

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February 22, 2021

“That They Themselves Are Beasts”

18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one Continue reading

Arts and Leisure, Catch-All

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January 26, 2021

Thoughtlets. xxx.

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 and civilians on the other. A soldier moves from a theater of war to a Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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April 22, 2019

Five Human Commonalities. Intro by Thomas Hobbes.

Intro. We are equally vulnerable. Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that, thought there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man [and woman*] is not so considerable Continue reading

Catch-All

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human

Thought experiment: the last humans. (Thoughtlets. XL.)

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Guest Post M. K. Sometimes Work Does Make Freedom.

“That They Themselves Are Beasts”

Thoughtlets. xxx.

Five Human Commonalities. Intro by Thomas Hobbes.