The anarchists’ realization
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Humor
J.S. Mill on Covid-19 lockdowns
“Many a person remains in the same town, street, or house from January to December, without a wish or thought tending towards removal, who, if confined to that same place by the mandate of authority, would find the imprisonment absolutely intolerable.” Source: John Stuart Mill, Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Principles of Political Economy
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Religion in America — humorous demographics
A Brief Guide to Religious Denominations in America (author unknown): A Baptist is a man who got saved. A Methodist is a Baptist who got shoes. A Congregationalist is a Methodist who moved to town. A Presbyterian is a Congregationalist who got rich. An Episcopalian is a Presbyterian who ran for public office. (First told
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Philosophy’s Longest Sentences Contest — Lyotard edition
For our ongoing contest, alert reader George King sent me this libido-sapper from Jean-François Lyotard’s 1974 Libidinal Economy. 355 words: “We should not continue to confuse the closure of representation, that sarcastic discovery, that sham dropping of the scales from our eyes, by those thinkers who come and tell us: what is outside is really
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The semi-schmuck who loses the girl in that holiday movie
Very amusing: From his perspective, how events unfolded and what’s he’s learned from it all.
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“Dear Satan” — charming Xmas short
A typo causes eschatological drama.
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On marrying philosophers: a cautionary tale
From rarddit.com: My husband and I are both academics. We’ve been married for 3 years, and been together for 6. He is an academic philosopher and I am a physicist. He has recently expressed displeasure that I’ve never seriously engaged with his work. Now, I’ve read a bit of the classics of philosophy, but my
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