For those of us that are proudly left of liberal the density of the last eight years slowly passes as a dark, soulless sludge. We have never recognized ourselves in the reactionary slogans of the Republicans. We only see their own narcissistic, dark dreams personified when they begrudge liberals or the left. We still do [...]
There is nothing inherently evil about government and nothing inherently good about private business. Those that would insist on either can only do so based on dogmatic, immutable and therefore, un-falsifiable, ideological grounds. Once an ideology is calcified into a meta-ideology of this sort no contrarian, empirical event can dislodge it. A meta-ideology can [...]
While the notion of freedom is a high and lofty ideal, exactly what it means and how it gets implemented demands thought prior to action. Otherwise, we may find ourselves defending a “freedom” that is nothing other than a self-serving delusion and stuck in a quagmire while the body bag count goes up. Did anyone [...]
Heidegger (H.) tells us we all have a pre-cognitive understanding of “being” already at work in our “everydayness”. There are different ways that we relate to being. For example, when we use a hammer to build something, we are relating to that hammer with a “pre-understanding” of its being. We are relating to it in the mode [...]
