After death
“People think they know what happens when they die. They don’t”. (Bill Maher in the film “Religulous”)
Archive of entries posted on February 2015
The neoliberal “philosophy”, continued
Following the lively discussion yesterday between Owen and Ezra I would like to return to the issue of “neoliberalism”. The best way to do this is to quote a review by Eugene McCarreher of a book by Philp Mirowski called How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown, (Verso, $29.95) In the neoliberal imagination, the human person is …
The digital death of the American dream
Technology is killing the American middle class. Automation, digital technology and outsourcing have wiped out millions of manufacturing, service and other blue-collar jobs in recent decades, and that trend is accelerating. Uber has chewed up the taxi industry; Google is working on driverless cars (why? Ed.) that could eliminate the jobs of 3.5 million truck …
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Quotes
More than a quarter of adults under 25 are completely teetotal. In London – the UK’s youngest and most ethnically diverse region – that figure rises to one in three. The Daily Telegraph
You don’t have to believe everything a philosopher says!
It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his own true happiness. (Epicurus) I suppose there is something …
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