Skepchick notes the focus on food on the Left vs. sexuality on the Right. I see the hatred of “unnatural” foods vs. hatred of sex for pleasure as manifestations of the mind/body dichotomy in today’s political divide.
Category Archives: Objectivism
Well I love life
Sometimes you merely have to look at what ideas each side in a battle supports. I’m not going to tell you what to decide, only what’s at stake. It is explicitly a battle of those on the side of life vs. those on the side of death. As someone who loves life, this credo of …
The Israel Test
Prager University has put together a video that points out the root cause of why Israel is hated by many of its neighbors. The moral point here is to illustrate Ayn Rand’s observation of destructive envy and hatred, hatred of the good for being the good. It’s also a good distillation of the history of …
My Sentiment Exactly
Today’s Coding Horror, Nobody’s Going to Help You, and That’s Awesome, is about how generally useless self-help books are. Now, self-help books are about as American as Apple Pie and the Pursuit of Happiness, but most of them are drivel (see Sturgeon’s Law). I’ve been taking steps to climb out of a rut that I’ve …
Some Quick Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence
I had read and filed away Why Minds Are Not Like Computers, which has revived some of my past mulling over what the problems with Artificial Intelligence are. At root in the current debate as to whether AI is achievable is the soul-body dichotomy, i.e., “Mind is software, brain is hardware”. I’m convinced the modern …
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Atlas Rising
I am pleased as punch that Atlas Shrugged is getting more media attention these days. It’s even the positive kind of attention. I enjoy digging into new people and ideas and learning everything I can about them, especially if the people have profound ideas. The most lasting passion that I have had has been for …
Guilds and taxes
Where it comes to World of Warcraft economics, the Greedy Goblin resonates the strongest with my thinking. He posted recently on guild “taxes”. I put taxes in square quotes because there’s a major difference in what a guild does to collect these “taxes” versus what a government does to get money out of their citizens. …
This is your retirement on government bailout drugs
Here’s a visual metaphor of what government intervention in the economy will do to your life savings. How could a reasonable person who has found their way into this country’s legislature be for any of this, if they had a sliver of sense left knocking around in their skulls? Forget about any moral questions that …
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