It may be that we’re living at the start of a new phenomena where the wealth of a modern State is dependent upon the amount of irony it has on hand. Having a surplus of cheaters may dictate the amount of real competitiveness a country can rely upon. It’s maybe the ludic-logical extension of mercantilism.
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It seems there are a large number of people with a wide variety of opinions about what is Philosophy even today. Simon Critchley of Dead Philosopher’s fame has started an opinion column in the NYT with the heavy title of the Stone where the opening topic is “What Is a Philosopher?” It’s a fine overview that hits the regular ideas minus the vocation. One of the conditions of possibility for Philosophy it seems are to proceed as if Time is not a commodity. In effect, it’s the old theoria vs praxis proposition something I’m interested in exploring. Basically, I want to know more about how Philosophy becomes Philosophy as a discipline. 
The slow moving death of liberal post-secondary education in the West is starting to seem a regular topic. What’s happened since 1968? Was it the explosive growth of new institutions? Was the bar lowered for entrance criteria and for graduating? Was it the introduction of unions to faculties? Was it the politics of endowments and a collusion with industry and governments? It is language that tells us about the nature of a thing, provided that we respect language’s own nature. In the meantime, to be sure, there rages round the earth an unbridled yet clever talking, writing, and broadcasting of spoken words. Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. Heidegger Well, it’s that magical time of the year again when English receives one of its few officiated, marketed births. The Webster’s Dictionary team has brought up into Anglo consciousness their 2009 word-O-the-year. Unveiled all over the floor and some. As good critics we can see what is noteworthy by what was overlooked: cloud computing, wrap rage, wallet biopsy, go viral, and netbook . These aren’t words, but rather expressions — the kind of growths Dr.Johnson would have enjoyed having a good shout about. Yes, that is an preposition. Today’s XKCD reminds us all of the legacy of scientific interpretation. Hermeneutics has finally come full circle into everydayness. Munro must have spent some time obsessing over those films. I wonder which axis gave him the most trouble. Maybe choosing the legend, and thus the vocabulary, was the hardest exercise. Another famous height creation of his and a well made depth episode. The Enlightenment progression has the stick figures mounted the same way as Attic vases. In the same plane, at an other extreme, artist Stephen Wiltshire draws by hand the skyline of Manhattan and New Jersey from memory. the hand moves while the memory rests (Stephen Wiltshire) |
 
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