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.Bill Hicks
American culture , American politics , current events , pop culture , human sexuality , philosophy , religion , spirituality , recreational drug use , entheogens , conspiracy theories , consumerism William Melvin "Bill" Hicks (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994) was an American stand-up comedian , social critic , satirist , and musician .
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.Naomi Klein: Corporate Branding
Excerpted from No Logo (10th Anniversary Edition) by Naomi Klein, reprinted by The Guardian .
.Virtualista
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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, by Francis Wheen (Harper Perennial, £7.99) It has been fashionable in higher intellectual circles - the self-proclaimed higher intellectual circles, that is - to declare the end of the Enlightenment project. To rely on reason, we are told by tenured professors at institutes of further education, is tantamount to anything between relying on a horse and buggy to get around town and endorsing the Nazis' scientific approach in the concentration camps. It might not matter too much - it may be a scandalous trahison des clercs, but who cares what the clercs say anyway? Or, as Wheen puts it: "What does it matter, Barbara Ehrenreich once asked, if some French guy [Jacques Lacan] wants to think of his penis as the square root of minus one?" Quite a few influential people care; that's the problem.
Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
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.MichaelMoore
I have put those items in 'Activism-Alter-Fellows' under 'Politics & Activism' due to their activism & opinions. They also belong to the pearl 'Economics Socio Philo' as their active engagement build bridges across those fields. by lelaissezfaire Jan 14