Category Archives: Philosophy

what you’re telling is just a story

Posted on 2021-07-31 by Dave

When you understand that what you’re telling is just a story. It isn’t happening anymore. When you realize the story you’re telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then … Continue reading →

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Commentary: TPH #336: How Your Emotions Are Made

Posted on 2021-07-15 by Dave

Commentary on: TPH podcast #336: How Your Emotions Are Made | Lisa Feldman BarrettTranscript on HappyScribe I almost immediately disliked her because of the laugh at the beginning. I don’t know why but it struck me wrong. Then she started … Continue reading →

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Commentary: TPH Podcasts from 2021-03-21 / Roshi Norma Wong

Posted on 2021-07-08 by Dave

I’m way, WAY behind on my podcasts. I don’t have a drive any more and I miss my podcasts. I’m experimenting with listening to them during the day but it’s always been really hard for me to listen while I … Continue reading →

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The Failures of Capitalism

Posted on 2019-04-22 by Dave

OpenCulture.com: Economics 101 by Ray Dalio Dalio himself isn’t setting out to build a worker’s paradise or to make financiers like himself obsolete, but he does have some trenchant thoughts on capitalism’s failures—and they are many, in his estimation. I … Continue reading →

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You can’t have freedom without safety

Posted on 2018-08-02 by Dave

This showed up in my RSS feed: An LA gallery is selling “Molotov cocktails” from a vending machine. It included an image of a vending machine that sells fake molotov cocktails with a slogan on the side: Freedom not safety … Continue reading →

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Climbing the Horseshoe

Posted on 2017-03-14 by Dave

Yep, this. Climbing the Horseshoe Assholes on the left and right ruining it for all the sensible people.

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Study Shows That Teaching Young Kids Philosophy Improves Their Academic Performance, Making Them Better at Reading & Math | Open Culture

Posted on 2017-02-28 by Dave

Should we teach philosophy to children? You’d have a hard time, I imagine, convincing many readers of this site that we shouldn’t. But why? Source: Study Shows That Teaching Young Kids Philosophy Improves Their Academic Performance, Making Them Better at … Continue reading →

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Why Humanity Destroyed Itself

Posted on 2017-02-10 by Dave

I’m currently reading The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt where he uses the metaphor of  the elephant and the rider.  The elephant is instinct, the rider is consciousness.  He talks a lot in the early section about how the rider often spends it’s time … Continue reading →

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The Wisdom of Night Vale

Posted on 2015-11-09 by Dave

It was a simpler time. Because I personally had less memories and so less to superimpose upon the world, and so it was much clearer, and also I was younger. Thus, the world was simpler. Fear is a reasonable response … Continue reading →

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You Are Not So Smart and You Are in Very Good Company | Think Tank | Big Think

Posted on 2013-05-08 by Dave

I very much liked this quote… I take great pleasure in accepting this because I feel a unity in the humility, in the recognition that we are a community of messy, stumbling, fumbling beings tumbling through space wrestling with a confusing gift … Continue reading →

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