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The Philosophical Absurdity of What America Has Become To think in these terms is to be an Existentialist . Existentialists have always been aware of the absurdity of life. That is their main shtick . But for those who don't realize it absurdity is also America's shtick, big time. And its embrace o...

The protagonist in the article by Ramsey McNabb is a fool and sounds like a spoiled brat when he lashes out at his acquaintance, who says she knows how he feels in his pain of his father’s death. Instead, he should understand what she means and feels because that is how reasonable people respond. Bu...

The paradox of empathy is that it is not entropy , at least as most people imagine it. But entropy does have its paradox. It's not empathy, although some times it appears to be. It's like in quantum physics where somethings is there but maybe isn't. Or it's in two places at once. But let's look agai...

Hobbes' Choice wrote:

spike wrote:

Democracy's end is always just one election away

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I consider that a silly statement.

Take it up with Aristotle.

What would an ancient like Aristotle know about modern democracy, its requirements and how it works?

Democracy's end is always just one election away

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I consider that a silly statement.

Some people are quite naive about democracy. Democracy does require an openness where people are free to criticizes, speak freely and exchange ideas. And those that are naive about it tend to think that democracy is just about voting, like the vote that brought Hitler to power in Germany and the Mus...

Hobbes' Choice, Democracy's intent is to create open, secular, pluralistic societies. Such societies works best and are more resilient no matter what part of the world adopts it. Not all democracies have to be the same as long as they adopt the central principle, government of the people, for the pe...

There is a saying "If you want to make an omelette you have to break eggs". The omelette in this instance is democracy, democracy in the Middle East. The eggs that need breaking to make way for democracy are the ancient traditional cultures of the Middle East that are standing in the way o...

I’ve wondered about Experimental Philosophy and how it works. Now I think I know. My grasping the concept began with me being underwhelmed, underwhelmed by some recent issues of PN magazine. As a lark I decided to combine three recent issues of PN magazine, the ones on “Liberty and Equality, “Humor”...

The worst part about Caliphate rule is that it is xenophobic and treats women as second class or less. That kind of governance doesn't have a future.

There is no need for a New World Order. The New World Order is already here, established after WWII, and has been steadily growing ever since. Islamist hate this order because it was imposed by modern, progressive thinkers. The New World Order is call Globalization. The Islamists are isolationists b...

Osama Bin Laden often denounced the hypocrisy and double standards perceived to be practiced by the West: There is so much that Islamists like Bin Laden don't understand about the West, such as the fact that hypocrisy and double standards are some of the great building blocks of Western Civilizatio...

If I could take up anything new I would take up welding.

Anyway, here is a think piece on the subject, welding or philosophy: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/20 ... ef=opinion

A quote from the article : "....money is not an end in itself." It certainly is. It is the currency of the land. And the most important thing about it is that it circulate, like blood in the body, so to keep a nation vital and active. Money matters is what brought about discipline and acco...

Then you have Guantanamo Bay, which is in breach of an 800 year old law Habeas Corpus.

Pray tell, what does one have to do with the other?