For a few to be immoral

"For a few to be immortal, many must die... You really don't know, do you? Everyone can't live forever! Where would we put them? Why do you think your time runs out? Why do you think taxes and prices go up the same day in the ghetto? The cost of living keeps rising to make sure that people keep dying. How else could we live a million years?"

'In time' is a very nice (well, watchable) class war movie for the end of this turbulent year, with a message simple enough for the working masses to grasp. That's what I love in the Hollywood left!

The dialectic of history

What Hegel says is that basically everything is understood in a dialectic process. On the individual as well as on the social level. This is the reason why he said "philosophy is the history of philosophy". This is one of his famous remarks. But we could just as well say "physics is the history of physics" with the same authority, for that matter!

Poor old GWF

Guess I found the worst misuse of hegelian dialectics ever:

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The title of the video might stop you wondering why I just said this, but let's still muse on for a while. I think it really shows just how "anti-hegelian", how totally atomized - that is, individualistic - our society has become...

The duty of philosophy

The duty of philosophy is not to solve problems, but to redefine problems! To show how what we experience as a problem is a false problem. If it is a true problem, then we don't need philosophy. For example, let's say that now there would be a deadly virus coming from outer space - so not in any way mediated through our human history - and it would threaten all of us. Basically, we don't need philosophy there. We need good science to stop this virus. We don't need philosophy, because the threat is real. You cannot play philosophical tricks and say "no, this is not a threat", or whatever. You know what I mean? The threat is there. You can see it.

Viva Slavoj!

Let's say you have a good old-fashioned father. It's sunday afternoon, you have to visit grandma. The father - old-fashioned, totalitarian father - will tell you: "Listen! I don't care how you feel" - if you are a small kid, of course - "You have to go to grandma and behave there properly." That's good. You can resist, nothing is broken.

Roll over Stalin

In this eye-opening video, you can finally see the truth about North Korea. In case you've missed it. For example, you can see large buildings and forests on the countryside, which proves that the countryside is actually rich. Because the Imperialists, after seeing that Pyongyang is so rich - since they have even larger buildings there - have turned their focus on the countryside, saying most people live there in poverty. So now you can see they don't. Brilliant!

Anything is Possible

In this great Western culture, we are constantly being told that everything is possible. We can travel to the moon, we can build skyscrapers higher than ever, computers faster than ever, telephones smaller then ever, we can cure AIDS and cancer, we can live to 200 years, we can build bridges across continents, we can have a larger penis, et cetera, et cetera...