Sunday, November 25, 2007

If you're a Dalit or a woman and want to liberate yourself from social constraints, learning English would be a giant first step

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TODAY'S EDITORIAL: Freedom Language 24 Nov 2007 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Editorial Write to Editor Globalisation is ofte...
Friday, November 23, 2007

The capacity of empathy is multilayered. We share a core with lots of animals

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What Makes Us Moral By JEFFREY KLUGER TIME Cover Story Friday, November 23, 2007 The Moral Ape The deepest foundation on which morality is ...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

Our brains lead us to self-deception

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Your Mind's Effect on your Money, November 14, 2007 By Craig L. Howe "www.craighowe.com - Home of th... (Darien, CT United States)...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

16 basic human psychological needs

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There are actually 16 basic human psychological needs that motivate people to seek meaning through religion, said Steven Reiss , author of t...

Blacks and Jews are the most persecuted peoples in history

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One Cosmos Under God Robert W. Godwin Now, what do blacks and Jews have in common, culturally? Yes, they are the most persecuted peoples in...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Most people don’t bother to make a pension plan.The child will take care of the parent because they are one and the same

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Showcase Kids: An obsession with Indian parents Partha Sinha economic times 13 Nov, 2007 When the average Indian middle class home gets a v...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Near-worship of emotions and feelings at the expense of reason and thought

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EGO-STROKING MADNESS from Dr. Sanity by Dr. Sanity For years now, pop psychology and the ego-stroking madness of the self-esteem gurus hav...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Violence is not primordial

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Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory from Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen That's the new book from Randall Collins . The main argu...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

You have perhaps caused as much destruction of life by your abstinence

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An excellent quote by the Great Bengali Revolutionary Sri Aurobindo Ghosh Comrades .... Of late I have acquired a deep interest in the work...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Acting out, reaction formation, denial, projection, displacement

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THE REAL WAR ON CHILDREN: Jihadi Kids vs Metrosexual Kids from Dr. Sanity by Dr. Sanity Mark Steyn has a column that addresses the recent...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

Written text allows for certain possibilities that oral traditions or the internet do not

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larvalsubjects Says: October 17, 2007 at 4:48 pm I do, of course, agree that environment has a formative influence on us. This is what all...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

Envy is an aspect of what Freud called the death instinct

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Gagdad Bob wrote : One of the most important but little known concepts in psychoanalysis is that of envy. It is a term of art, not to be con...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Church attendance gives way to spiritual longing. Newspaper reading gives way to blogging

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The Odyssey Years By DAVID BROOKS nytimes.com : October 9, 2007 There used to be four common life phases: childhood, adolescence, adulthoo...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

You no longer have a university, but a series of identity constituencies

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Revisiting the Canon Wars By RACHEL DONADIO NYT: September 16, 2007 But when college costs run as high as $50,000 a year, it’s harder to i...

The salon is a thinking-machine

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The (Psycho-)Geography of the Enlightenment Slawkenbergius's Tales In 1971, Robert Darnton published an article in Past and Present th...
Thursday, September 27, 2007

A hybrid monster that is neither adult nor child but both at the same time

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All in the Family from One Cosmos by Gagdad Bob In my opinion, we are experiencing a collapse of the covenant between mother and father a...
Monday, September 24, 2007

Young people are naturally drawn to leftism, it gives one the appearance of strength, maturity, and adulthood

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One Cosmos Under God Robert W. Godwin Young people are naturally drawn to leftism, since they are at a developmental stage in which their t...
Saturday, September 22, 2007

I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be, free

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History and Government > U.S. Documents The Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863 By the president of the United States of America:...

As if there were no women philosophers during the past 2600 years

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Sexism in Philosophy By Karen Warren September 21, 2007 Sexism (and particular ways male-bias in philosophy continues) is indeed alive in ...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Decoding is the disruption of these social codes

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The Alethetics of Rhetoric Posted by larvalsubjects under Antagonism , Assemblages , Communication , Deleuze , Heidegger , Politics ...