(1) Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Religion: Looking for A Common Grounds | Jakub Gomulka – Academia.edu
Michael Kimmel and Gloria Steinem on Consensual Sex on Campus – NYTimes.com
Michael Kimmel and Gloria Steinem on Consensual Sex on Campus - NYTimes.com.
ISRAEL’S 155mm CURE FOR ‘TERRORISM’ « Eric Margolis
This account of Israel's involvement in a historical 'axis of political subterfuge' with the USA, Britain... and whomever is interesting and may well be true.
I am instinctively inclined to be pro-Israel and sometimes wonder whether I am being duped.
Yet there is a relentless truth: Israel is surrounded by nations and sects that have formally announced that they will not rest until Israel is obliterated and Jews everywhere have been exterminated. How much licence does this grant Israel and the Jewish people to aggressively and pro-actively defend themselves? Quite a bit I think, especially when the nature of potential obliteration has been evolving.
What would happen if Israel's middle east enemies acquired nuclear weapons; or if terrorists got their hands on miniaturized versions of nuclear devices, or some version of biological Armageddon?
The next holocaust might not emerge as incrementally as the last.
Timely, vigorous prevention may be the only prevention possible.
BP May Be Fined Up to $18 Billion for Spill in Gulf – NYTimes.com
BP May Be Fined Up to $18 Billion for Spill in Gulf - NYTimes.com.
What Makes People Poor? – NYTimes.com
Excellent stuff!
But here's the thing: if we have any real interest in developing strategies and technologies able to rescue impoverished people 'over there', what would be wrong with identifying our own marginalized populations as de facto third world nations within, for example, Canada and the USA.
What would be more interesting that structuring alternative second economies for these marginalized populations - in a sense, rebooting dysfunctional local populations with new operating systems featuring new local currencies and using social media and other technological resources allowing individuals to produce and exchange value outside of the global economy?
These example and resources would be immediately relevant to rescuing marginalized populations 'over there'.
The fact that such repairs have not been occurring begs further questions.
ISIS Is a Disgrace to True Fundamentalism – NYTimes.com
Deftly argued. However the role of baseline religions in the emergence of fanaticism seems to me to set the stage for even Nietzsche's trenchant analysis of what is occurring, and indeed seems to be accelerating.
The shallow understandings of millions of disaffected young men (and women) equipped with UZIs, decapitating knives and peckers-at-the-ready may be setting the stage for unprecedented torment.