People who call for "unity" as the only imaginable solution to violence thereby admit that they are incapable of imagining non-violence towards members of an outgroup. Theirs is the very emotiology of hate they falsely claim to "fight"-because their only vocabulary is violence.

Emotiology-it doesn't even pass the bar of an ideology. There is no ( Read more... )

Que pensé-je de la religion, me demande-t-on ( Read more... )

When Patri mentioned the idea of religions and cults being memetic parasites, and the following discussion bore on the difference (if any) between religions and cults, and how a same religion could sometimes have both normal and fanatical followers, my answer(in the comments) was that often ( Read more... )

In Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags, Clay Shirky clearly explains the issue of a posteriori knowledge versus a priori knowledge ( Read more... )

Dans le train qui m'amenait hier à Paris pour parler de libéralisme au libre journal de Jean-Gilles Malliarakis sur Radio Courtoisiemon vis-à-vis lisait le numéro 6 "Histoire du peuple juif ( Read more... )

Sur la liste des libertariens, un ami libéral constate que L'Etat fwançais c'est la corruption PLUS la mauvaise gestion. Pourris ET bêtes.
Il a tort. Car les hommes de l'état sont intelligents et efficaces, mais il y a un "mais". En complément à mon article récent sur la soi-disant efficacité de l'Etat pour résoudre nos problèmes, voici donc ma ( Read more... )