Wayfarer

Thanks. Depressing reading. I really understand the hostility towards 'woke culture' - the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) is about the only ...

If they’re not, it won’t be through lack of trying. There are some protests starting to appear but it’s going to take a lot more than protests. The De...

We’re getting there…..

Some of the consequences of the USAID shutdown https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/21/usaid-trump-freeze-marocco-foreign-aid/ (I recall, b...

I do often notice a general deficiency of wonder both in myself and among others, although at least I wonder why.

What with Trump wanting to sack the whole CIA and most of the FBI, while spouting Russian propaganda - well, let’s just say, his security detail will ...

Bear in mind many of Trump’s actions directly contravene what would have been Republican policy before he took over. Marco Rubio used to lambast Obama...

Not resilient enough in my view. Trump is methodically dismantling and dissolving independent agencies and actors and replacing them with party appara...

No wonder Husserl expressed admiration for Buddhist principles. But I think more germane to the theme of ‘seeing truly’ are the opening sentences of t...

What we’re witnessing is the dismantling of the American Republic and the instigation of a one-party state. Plain as day.

I’d agree with that. The example of ‘looking out the window’ was simply to make a distinction between naturalism, which only considers what is seen, a...

Part 2 | Phenomenology Rescues the Subject https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Edmund_Husserl_1910s.jpg/220px-Edmund_Husserl_191...

Also wanted to add - yes, of course you're right about that. It was carelessly expressed on my part. But he does insist on the primacy of scientific p...

I think you're on the right track in one way. The reason I introduced the distinction between the 'merely personal' and the 'subjective', is because o...

Consider an allegory. Three men are viewing a parcel of land. One is a real-estate developer, one an agriculturalist, and one a geological surveyor. T...

It’s certainly one aspect of it.

Good points.

So if I understand you correctly, you're saying that objectivity isn’t just about consensus, but about how an insight is tested, repeated, and confirm...

I think it's a mistaken notion of 'subjectivity'. Subjectivity doesn't only pertain to what is specific to a single individual. Later in the essay I d...

This development, with Trump openly supporting Putin, is by far the most serious international and foreign policy crisis since 9/11.

Your self description. One radical anti-vaxxers word. You're trolling, over and out.

But she's obviously lying. I hadn't heard of her, so I googled her and found the Guardian article: She's a notorious liar, propagandist and vaccine sk...

He didn't say it was. In fact, the paper is called 'Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness'. It only came to be called THE hard problem later.

I don't have to listen to liars, and I'm done talking to you about it.

Yes, but note How much difference do you think that is going to make?

SO, you think I should listen to a notorious liar and propagandist, and that decisions made on the basis of the media coverage and the January 6th Com...

And, answer the question!

I started watching it, up until the time she said January 6th was peaceful, kumbaya. Direct quote. Don't you think that might, just might, be a cause ...

Gold is a notorious liar and propagandist. She is not worth listening to. Answer the question: Is that what you believe?

Doing a bit more digging on this Simone Gold: she was arrested for participating. A 'notorious liar' would be more accurate. You want to be careful wh...

But surely you can't be saying that the January 6th riot and insurrection was a fabrication? That this subject's testimony is the real fact of the mat...

Anything you can point to? I've seen a couple of low-profile Senators grumbling about it, but overall, State Department and all the heavy hitters are ...

Yes. One account, completely contrary to all the voluminously reported facts.

That's an interesting analysis, although I don't think that 'subjectivity is neutralised by repetition' really holds water. As for the Pythagorean the...

This is Part 1.

I don't know the upshot of all that, as it took place in 2021, but I will acknowledge being extremely dissappointed that this scholar, of whom I had f...

This is addressed in the subsequent sections.

I don't know what point you're trying to prove. Are you defending the January 6th riot, when the Capitol building was attacked by protestors, windows ...

Thank you! Well, it's only part 1! I would hope that the reach of the argument is more than simply 'scientism', although that is certainly as aspect o...

The argument makes a mistake of assuming that for a physical system to cause a change in itself, it must know when to do so. But physical processes do...

The Red Line: - as is well known, many of Trump's executive orders are being challenged in the Courts. This includes his blatantly unconstituional fre...

Well, we are creatures of our times. I am trying to show that this is a natural implication of the 'cartesian division'. Which reminds me of the phras...

Might I add that one can easily portray sensory experience as physical, in that it can be understood in terms of physical stimuli and physiological re...

Expect some fire many firings. A fanatical partisan and another manifest threat to democracy.

:up:

Americans need to know that Russia has infiltrated their President. I wonder if they know they voted to make Russia great again.

Strictly by the numbers, so far as I can tell. ‘Fire all your probationary employees’ (because they have less tenure.) ‘Reduce your staff by 80%’. The...

Good idea, it’s the subject of an essay I’ve written recently.

Close! I was nine!

I’ve argued that it’s not feasible, for reasons that you haven’t refuted. But I will admit, my engagement in this thread was addressed to the series o...