Tuesday, November 10, 2020

The Oppression Two-Step: creating mountains of bullshit out of molehills of truth

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Systematic misuse of the concept of oppression disorders moral and analytical judgement. Afghan women in different decades Source : I was re...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Paying the Palestinians not to make peace

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Israel-Palestine is the third rail of online commentary. It brings out all the crazies. Nevertheless, it is worth noting an overlooked struc...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

Truth, knowledge and self-deception

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Source . One of the fundamental, persistent, claims of wisdom traditions is that to be wise one must seek to not deceive oneself. That unspa...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

The Silence of the Lambs and the contemporary American elite

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Source . The Silence of the Lambs is almost 30 years old. But it is one of those classic films that has entered the general culture so that...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Reasons to expect Trump to lose

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Source . The US is having a very strange election, at so many levels. By all the indicators of enthusiasm, President Trump is way ahead of V...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Why did we take up farming?

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Source The Danish economist Ester Boserup (1910–1999) advanced a clever theory for the origins of farming. The theory was that farming bega...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Transgender authenicity as a case study of Theory destroying sense

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Source We Homo sapiens are a much more dimorphic species than people may realise. Men are, on average, only 7% taller than women, and 13% ...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

How signalling consensus produces brainless decision-making: the problem with prestige opinions

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Source Australia has done relatively well in coping with Covid-19. Our death rate, at the time of posting, of 35 per million puts us 111th o...