Posts Categorized: philosophy

Big Sur’s Old Coast Road, endings, awareness, inequality, obsession, and humility.

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Big Sur was a special place in my upbringing, but so was it in my life, at all stages.  So I take my ex-wife’s family (first wife… we’re fine, not sure what’s wrong with her she still adores me) down Continue Reading…

Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 speech from “The Greatest Dictator” is prescient, brutally self-aware, and more relevant than ever.

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Again… this is 80 years old, this year of 2020. —— I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone Continue Reading…

Has reality ever started unraveling so fast, you can barely keep up, let alone survive? Well, in these movies, that’s how the “rubber reality” genre works!

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edit: this “supergenre”, if that exists, could simply be “this is a list of movies you shouldn’t know anything about prior to watching, aside maybe from their genre”. I recently set out to identify Continue Reading…

REPRINTED WITHOUT PERMISSION: Henry Rollins: America’s Real Safety Net Is Drugs, Alcohol, Cheap Food and Free Porn

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(this was in the LA Weekly. not many people read the LA Weekly. just about as many people as my blog.) — Henry Rollins: America’s Real Safety Net Is Drugs, Alcohol, Cheap Food and Free Porn THURSDAY, Continue Reading…

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is out of date, completely wrong, & wildly ignorant of the privilege it espouses. Time to update it?

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I’ve been looking for academic discourse regarding Maslow, and it doesn’t seem that there is a wide array of conversation in regards to the idea of Maslow’s Hierarchy born of white privilege? I am a tall Continue Reading…