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October 31st, 2007 · No Comments

我是社会学的未知数还是心理学的失败,与你擦肩而过的幽魂。秋色带来的喜悦是以往的事儿

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some stuff some guy wrote about Daoism’s relation to society and thought at the time

October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

指出老子的哲学反思超过了孔墨,对探索认识理论新途径的启迪作用。对封建社会前期的宗教异化,指出它只是依存于并服务于人们政治生活中的政治异化,而当时的神权理论则把身分等级的特权这一社会压迫力量,歪曲、幻化成为支配人世生活的主宰力量。从王充到范缜再到柳宗元、刘禹锡,他们对神权的批判,成为封建社会前期“异端”思想的杰出旗手。柳宗元、刘禹锡在漫长的贬谪生活中,不顾各种打击和折磨,坚持理论斗争,“道苟直,虽死,不可回也”,“这种德行、勇气和责任心,一直影响和鼓舞着后人为追求真理而进行斗争”。这些论述虽然只是片断而并不连贯,却透露了编者力图发掘古代哲学中那些闪光的内容。
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这想象力 (来自韩寒)

October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

  我很喜欢看中国的官方发明象征物起名字。比如当年那两只大熊猫,最后不出所料叫团团和圆圆,这中文很有讲究,用同义字但词就不同义,比如就不能叫“滚滚”和“蛋蛋”。最后团团圆圆算是符合了我们这类事一定要不过不失的原则。相比之下,以前的盼盼已经是很有想象力的了。
  然后福娃,叫贝贝,晶晶,欢欢,迎迎,妮妮,连起来念居然是“北京欢迎你”耶!
  但是最绝的是现在出的网络警察,杭州版本的叫“平平”和“安安”。但最狠的还在后面,就是全国版本的网络警察,就叫“警警”和“察察”。我昨天看到的时候还揉了半天眼睛,警察就是直接,连谐音都不带玩了。
  但其实,他们是有苦衷的,肯定把所有的谐音都想了一遍了,实在是不成。比如警警兄,他肯定不能叫晶晶,那是福娃;也不能叫井井,人以为是酒井法子;叫静静,也不行,那是女人的名字;叫惊惊,那就不符合我人民警察处变不惊的形象;叫茎茎,那就更加不行了,到时候配上另外一个“插插”,那就涉黄了,而那个“察察”,我仔细一想,叫叉叉,肯定不行,差差,岔岔,衩衩,茬茬,都不符合要求,所以,一狠心一咬牙,算了,本色出演。我估计,这就是警警和察察的来历。
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World War III, here we come…(Huffington Post)

October 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Bob Cesca from the Huffington Post
Is it any wonder why we occasionally succumb to outrage fatigue: that deflated, windless sense of numbing futility we feel when confronted with the illogical and the absurd? We’ve only begun to dig into the upper strata of lawlessness this regime has perpetrated over the last seven years. And [...]

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The slow death of the Real Job is pulling society apart

October 19th, 2007 · No Comments

From the Guardian UK
Set against developments that are defining an ever-increasing share of the economy, these people were lucky. Trade unionists cite no end of altogether bleaker case studies: three-tier workplaces in which indigenous British employees sit precariously at the top, flimsily employed Poles come further down, and thoroughly casualised Hungarians and Slovakians are left [...]

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We need to start a social revolution by truly putting children first

October 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Polly Toynbee on the state of child poverty in the UK. This is an excerpt, read the whole thing here.
Putting children first would be a social revolution, redesigning everything, turning the world on its head. Walking and cycling in streets safe enough for any unaccompanied young child going to school would take priority over cars, [...]

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More Arendt (on revolutions)

October 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Yet Arendt sees both the French and American revolutions as ultimately failing to establish a perduring political space in which the on-going activities of shared deliberation, decision and coordinated action could be exercised. In the case of the French Revolution, the subordination of political freedom to matters of managing welfare (the ’social question’) reduces political [...]

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Tags: America · politics

On Hannah Arendt…

October 19th, 2007 · No Comments

This from the Jewish Virtual Library:
Although Arendt deeply appreciated the refuge that the United States provided (an appreciation that its academic institutions and audiences reciprocated by recognizing her gifts), it is difficult to detect any significant American influences upon her work. Arendt was supremely a product of Weimar culture. She had its awareness of both [...]

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Marijuana Logues on the beauty of pot

October 18th, 2007 · No Comments

The Marijuana Logues on the Bill Maher Show on FunnyOrDie.com
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Tom Cruise is a Cock-Block — from FunnyorDie.com

October 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Tom Cruise Is a Cock-Block
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