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I have just published a piece on Medium where I examine the search and yearning for meaning in this masterpiece of Soviet cinema. https://medium.com/@MustaphaRexhepMond/the-agony-of-meaninglessness-in-tarkovskys-stalker-a9a9c56dece3 Is man's search for meaning ultimately a fruitless pursuit? - Musta...

I have just published a piece on Medium where I examine the totalitarian, pervasive nature of the corporation in this masterpiece of paranoid cinema. https://medium.com/@MustaphaRexhepMond/faceless-corporatism-in-the-parallax-view-d3d6b0cf9cf5 Is the corporation a barrier to human agency, freedom o...

I have just published a piece on Medium where I examine the totalitarian, pervasive nature of the corporation in this masterpiece of paranoid cinema. https://medium.com/@MustaphaRexhepMond/faceless-corporatism-in-the-parallax-view-d3d6b0cf9cf5 Is the corporation a barrier to human agency, freedom or...

Really well written article. I tend to be fatalistic about things, but who says things must turn out well for us? I don't think we live in a world that we can ultimately control and administer to our own ends. Just look at technology. We invented plastic to better our lives, now the seas and landfi...

I have just published a new piece in collusion with a colleague who is a prominent member of the modern Indian socialist movement. https://philosophical-malady.blogspot.com/2021/07/trotskys-stalinism-and-bolshevism-brief.html We analyse one of Trotsky's most prominent pieces, 'Stalinism and Bolshevi...

I have just published a new piece in response to a colleague with my take on the reform vs. revolution argument. https://philosophical-malady.blogspot.com/2021/05/reform-revolution-and-inevitable.html Is revolution the answer to our woes? Or should reform and revolution act synergistically? Or perha...

My colleague has just published an article on Malady: https://philosophical-malady.blogspot.com/2021/02/surrendering-to-hopelessness-catharsis.html Does communism or being a modern revolutionary necessarily lead to rage, anger and frustration? Is being a modern revolutionary simply a futile, theatri...

Impenitent wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 9:31 pm the cure is a bullet

-Imp

Who gets the bullet?

I have just published an article exploring Syndicalism over on Malady: https://philosophical-malady.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-brief-question-of-syndicalism.html I have briefly described the historical origins of Syndicalism, what it is and the failures of previous "socialist" experiments, how...

Everything slots into the chain of causation (other that indeterministic quantum events as already described). no, not fair enough...without free will, Jay only seems to choose to believe...as you reckon it does it matter what Jay thinks? you might seem to have an interest in his view, but, as you ...

In determinism the physical universe moves step by step. Each step comes from a previous state and the previous state is part of an ever progressing causal chain. The brain also functions step by step but the mind often leaps from one line of thought to another. The leap is causally unexplainable. ...

In determinism the physical universe moves step by step. Each step comes from a previous state and the previous state is part of an ever progressing causal chain. The brain also functions step by step but the mind often leaps from one line of thought to another. The leap is causally unexplainable. ...

if there is no freedom of choice, there can be no moral consequence -Imp Correct, but society is still going to lock you up to protect the rest of the citizenry. Things can still be immoral, heinous and evil without the people committing them being ultimately morally responsible for them, don't you...

We are evolutionarily programmed to consciously feel that we are in control, have free will etc. which is why it is so shocking and unintuitive to think the converse. actually, as you reckon it, this too is a fiction, an illusion...the counter-intuitive shock is a shadow, just dominoes fallin'...no...

if free will truly isn't then my stubborn belief in it is as determined as every-thing and -one that is: if you're right, then I have no choice in the matter...I believe in free will (libertarian agent causation), believe I am a free will (a causal agent), and that's beyond my or your control robot...