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Good ole Noam
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/201192514364490977.html Fascinating stuff, is he wrong?
Just started reading “Walden” by Thoreau
…and Wow am I underwhelmed. First of all, Henry David is only thirty when he writes it, and he says “I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.” Old age brings only loss, not wisdom, he belabors this point. Sounds like typical youth to me… But [...]
The Survivor, by Terrence Des Pres
The basic structure of Western civilization or perhaps of any civilization, insofar as the processes of culture and sublimation are one, is the division between body and the spirit, between concrete existence and symbolic modes of being. In extremity, however, divisions like these collapse. The principle of compartmentalization no longer holds, and organic being becomes [...]
Thinking about Jones
What really impressed me about the Jon Jones fight was Jones’ instincts. Yes, he’s an incredible athlete with an amazing wingspan, but none of that means shit without the composure to utilize it. When he came out in that crawl–that spider-monkey-attack, fluid and athletic, not scared, never in danger, he started the process of throwing [...]
What I’m Reading
If there is any science man really needs it is the one I teach, of how to occupy properly that place in creation that is assigned to man, and how to learn from it what one must be in order to be a man. —Immanuel Kant I’m back on “The Denial of Death,” by Ernest [...]