Jim Holt’s sober review of Daniel Kahneman’s new book (Thinking, Fast and Slow — By Daniel Kahneman — Book Review – NYTimes.com) is wisely cautionary. An excerpt: “Even if we could rid ourselves of the biases and illusions identified in this book — and Kahneman, citing his own lack of progress in overcoming them, doubts … Continue reading
Here. Most of my fellow philosophers will undoubtedly frown upon my paying attention to Zizek, let alone linking to him. But talk to me when you merit an invitation to share your ideas on Charlie Rose (or any other show), and then acquit yourself so well (physical tics and all).
What Steve Jobs Understood That Our Politicians Don’t – NYTimes.com. One the fundamental issues we have to confront today is scale. Perhaps we’re too big to succeed. Think smaller.
What Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, the Chilean students, and other global protest movements all have in common. – Slate Magazine.
‘Post-materialism.’ That’s the term being bandied about more and more to capture the change in values increasingly noticeable among the generation now very much coming to the fore (roughly, the post-boomers, born, say, between ’65 and ’85). I’m tempted to say we’re witnessing a ‘satisficing’-shift in attitudes, with respect to more ‘materialist’ goods, at any … Continue reading
From today’s New York Times: David Brooks on the emergence of moral individualism The odd thing here is that we tend to be surprised and think something has gone wrong. If you start down the road of privatizing the good, as we did at the birth of Modernity, this is where you inevitably arrive. What’s … Continue reading
For those who lived through it, endured it, and ultimately absorbed it, September 11, 2001 persists in memory in an intensely personal way. Each of us owns that day and its aftermath, even when we manage to remember that so many others own it too. Some of us, far too many, lost lovers, brothers, sisters, … Continue reading
John Lanchester · The Non-Scenic Route to the Place We’re Going Anyway: The Belgian Solution · LRB 8 September 2011.
Sport Murphy, “Sing Me To Sleep” [Live in Sport's backyard] – YouTube.
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