Tragedy Made Steve Kerr See the World Beyond the Court - The New York Times. What Ta-Nehisi Coates Gets Wrong About American Politics - The Atlantic. Hannibal and Me: life lessons from history. Joseph Tainter As you know, The Hannibal Blog is fascinated by the issue of complexity in modern society.
Mental Model: Multiply By Zero. Let's run through a little elementary algebra.
Try to do it in your head: What's 1,506,789 x 9,809 x 5.56 x 0? Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz. The Ultimate Guide To Making Smart Decisions. Did we come from pigs? When Eugene McCarthy looks in the mirror, certain traits jump out at him.
His body fat. His mostly hairless skin, and the fine lines that run over it. Exposure to the bacteria in soil can be good for mental health, and could treat depression and prevent PTSD — Quartz. No one would blame you for not wanting your body to be infested with creatures from your garden.
But maybe you should rethink your position. Something is Very Wrong with Reality Winner and the NSA Leak. Gordon White and the New Animism. Stuart Wilde Q&A: Money – Christopher James Wild. Republished © Stuart Wilde – Question and answer sessions Part 4: Money (Excerpts from question and answer sessions given by Stuart Wilde) Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?
Q: If people ask you for money, should you give it to them, and why? Why So Many ‘Tolerant’ People Are Intolerant. It’s become common to point out that those who most preach “tolerance” are often themselves highly “intolerant.”
But why is that? As University of Texas professor and ethics expert J. Budziszewski explains, it may have a lot to do with tolerance’s character as a virtue. Let me explain. Or rather, I’ll explain Budziszewski’s explanation from his excellent article, “The Illusion of Moral Neutrality.” Former DIA Colonel: “US strikes on Syria based on a lie” “In the coming days the American people will learn that the [US]Intelligence Community knew that Syria did not drop a military chemical weapon on innocent civilians in Idlib.”Former DIA Colonel Patrick Lang Former DIA Colonel Patrick Lang Patrick Lang — a former DIA Colonel — does not mince words about the US attacks on Syria.
Lang claims that Donald Trump’s decision to launch cruise missile strikes on a Syrian Air Force Base was based on a lie. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY. First we take Damascus. Donald Trump ordered his attack on Syria because of something he saw on TV.
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ According to Ubuntu philosophy, which has its origins in ancient Africa, a newborn baby is not a person.
People are born without ‘ena’, or selfhood, and instead must acquire it through interactions and experiences over time. So the ‘self’/‘other’ distinction that’s axiomatic in Western philosophy is much blurrier in Ubuntu thought. As the Kenyan-born philosopher John Mbiti put it in African Religions and Philosophy (1975): ‘I am because we are, and since we are, therefore I am.’
We know from everyday experience that a person is partly forged in the crucible of community. Relationships inform self-understanding. Listen, Can We Please Not Do This Shit? – PoliticsMeansPolitics.com. *Lots of people don’t believe Steve Bannon is a white supremacist.
Ok, fine. Log In - New York Times. Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill. (Note: Read Bruce Levine’s latest post: Anti-Authoritarians and Schizophrenia: Do Rebels Who Defy Treatment Do Better? In my career as a psychologist, I have talked with hundreds of people previously diagnosed by other professionals with oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, anxiety disorder and other psychiatric illnesses, and I am struck by (1) how many of those diagnosed are essentially anti-authoritarians, and (2) how those professionals who have diagnosed them are not.
Anti-authoritarians question whether an authority is a legitimate one before taking that authority seriously. Evaluating the legitimacy of authorities includes assessing whether or not authorities actually know what they are talking about, are honest, and care about those people who are respecting their authority. Some activists lament how few anti-authoritarians there appear to be in the United States. Why Mental Health Professionals Diagnose Anti-Authoritarians with Mental Illness. In the war between millennials and baby boomers we have forgotten about the work-hard, play-hard Generation X. Don’t you know there’s a war on?
It’s being fought right now, all around us, between the baby boomers and the millennials. Opinions differ as to the exact parameters that define each group of combatants, but the boomers are generally thought to have been born between 1946 (the results of the post-war baby boom, when people were so happy to be alive after six years of conflict that they jumped, en masse, into the sack) and the early 1960s. The millennials, on the other hand, take their name from the fact they came of age at the turn of the new century, so are usually defined as being born in 1982 or later. More Crows than Eagles. I remember AIDS. I’m older than you probably think I am, and I remember what AIDS in America meant in the eighties, when William F. The Right & The Unnecessariat. Is Liberals’ Vanity Stronger Than Their Misery? A reader writes: Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself. Ethics of Curiosity. The annual convention of the American Philosophical Association could rarely be described as a festive affair.
Why we should listen to anarchists in the age of Trump. Among the sweeping changes that President Donald J. 9 Websites to Earn Extra Money Online. It doesn’t take much time to run across someone pitching a “get-rich-quick” scheme online. Circle Thrice: Antifragile, A Magical Introduction Part 1. London's Million Mask March Was a Weird, Awkward Pantomime. Related: Check out more VICE photos from the Million Mask March You wouldn't know it from most of the coverage, but last night's Million Mask March might have been the quietest protest that London has ever seen.
Social Media and the Magick of Dispersion. I was at a local coffee shop the other night, outside on the deck. Can Pan-European Hysteria Save NATO's Syrian War? November 2, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) After over a decade of war and destabilization waged by NATO stretching from North Africa to Central Asia, with the recent destruction of Libya and the 4-year war NATO and its regional partners have waged against Syria, an influx of refugees, following the trail of their conquerors back West was all but inevitable.The Influx is Engineered However, evidence suggests that the latest influx of refugees is more than a mere predictable consequence of destroying entire regions of the planet with war and state-sponsored terrorism. Al Gore’s Green-Technology Investment Strategy and the Fight Against Climate Change. Hannah Arendt on Being vs. Appearing and Our Impulse for Self-Display. Nietzsche on the Journey of Becoming and What It Means to Be a Free Spirit. The New Frontier of Hope....
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. The Forest is Everywhere: A review of Ernst Junger's The Forest Passage. The New Frontier of Hope.... Sylvia Plath on Privilege, Free Will, and What Makes Us Who We Are. Harry Clarke’s Beautiful and Haunting 1925 Illustrations for Goethe’s Faust. Philosopher Erich Fromm on the Art of Loving and What Is Keeping Us from Mastering It.
How Panasonic North America Got So Many Workers to Ditch Their Car Commutes for Public Transit. Postscript: A Secret Society Shuts Its Doors. Sunstein on "biased assimilation" & ideologically credible messengers. Trying to See Through: A Unified Theory of Nerddom. M.fastcompany. The Oregon Trail Generation: Life Before and After Mainstream Tech. The Internet's Dark Ages. How to Fall Off the Wagon. Weak States, Poor Countries by Angus Deaton.