( Or: Holy crap, existentialism may not be as silly as I previously thought?! )

I saw the movie of which name is the title of the post and I must say, it got me thinking.

Thought #1: ( Who the hell do these car companies think they are?? )

Two things in normal life have had significance today. Two!

( 1. Google! )

There has been some discussion of Walmart over in Liz's journal lately. A common notion was touched upon that I particularly would like to dispel: that the consumer is just as guilty as the corporation for unethical deeds. Not only do I hope to suggest that this notion is incorrect, I will show that it is sometimes even nothing more than an attempt ( Read more... )

I have been reading some book about Kant lately and I have recently finished the chapter on his theory of cognition: that is, how we use past experiences and knowledge, our power to reason, and present experiences to think (although "think" really doesn't do it justice, hence why they decided on "cognition").

In the past, I have strayed away from ( Read more... )

The most common fallacy in American politics relating to foreign policy is now officially the good guy/bad guy fallacy: all other countries are secretly out to get us, because they're the "bad guys."

That is all.

Liz and I went to another lecture tonight. This one was on our future being sustainable or not.

I'll do my best to recount some of the main points.

( Joel Kovel )

Dr. Chomsky paid a visit to Iowa State University today and talked about social justice and foreign policy.

They have a room called "the Sun Room" that houses most of the lectures and can hold about 30x8 seats. For Noam, they opened up all 2 rooms behind this room, as well, and tried to fit as many seats as they could, and many of us were still ( Read more... )

The development of technology causes the set of possible job skills to increase, as if the time line were going up a "skill ladder", leaving the bottom rungs behind as we head into the future ( Read more... )

I was thinking about the rise of Christianity today ( Read more... )