Kinda hard to fully articulate the following post, but I don’t think America has profoundly and deeply processed the *horror* of slavery. I know we all go “yeah, it was awful”, etc. – and we’re sincere about it. But it wasn’t just a “bad” thing, a dark part of our history that we overcame with […]
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Alain Badiou on Money, Passion, Violence, and Friendship
Alain Badiou discusses money a short video, while touching on other fun parts of life. Select quote: …that passion for money is as if it were passion for all the things we want, all that we desire. It is as if money appeared in front of desire and as if it was the means to […]
On the Slaughter Bench: Raccoons
It seems the Internet doesn’t care much for raccoons. Raccoons: the latest victims on the Slaughter Bench of Digital.
After the Revolution, the Lolcat
The German philosopher Hegel once asked: “…regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized—the question involuntarily arises: to what principle, to what final aim have these enormous sacrifices been offered?” Hegel’s question was rhetorical: Hegel actually believed that the “World […]