Walking down the isle at the local grocery store I took note of the newer marketing ploys meant to entice potential customers. The once popular “no-msg” is accompanied by “low calorie” or “no high fructose corn syrup,” enriched foods are being replaced by whole grain foods (of which we are told to accept no imitations), [...]
the Key and Its Signature
reflection without a mirror
Tag Archives: Culture
Throwing Stones and Lifting Swords.
Why are there so many holy wars on the Internet? It seems that whenever there is a choice to be made, people will defend their choice with more fervor than necessary. We’ve got Tabs Vs. Spaces, Vim vs. Emacs, Mac vs. PC (a classic)—the list seems endless.
Whenever I formulate this question, people respond by pointing [...]
Religulous, or “Bill Maher’s Excellent Adventure.”
Today I want to look at Bill Maher’s aggressive atheistic (or agnostic, I am not sure which) manifesto, Religulous. In it, Maher starts and ends standing upon the much-prophesied site of apocalypse: Megiddo. He—standing at the end of the world—informs the audience of religion’s destructive power and urges the under-represented minority of atheists and agnostics [...]
A Market For Philosophy?
Often times it seems that philosophy should be more of apublic event, rather than the chatter of academics in stuffy old rooms. What, however, is the pay-off for the average joe—or what W.V.O. Quine calls “the man in the street?” Enlightenment? An understanding of dead Greece, Rome, Germany? A sense of what sort of life they should live? Popularization of philosophy looks to be a difficult task indeed, considering the nature of the practice.