You can tell the world is on the cusp of enormous revolutionary changes and rearrangements because everyone — including many so-called humanists — is quick to proclaim that philosophy is irrelevant, meaningless, was a mistake, etc.
It’s always when philosophy is the most important and the most consequential that those most enmeshed in the status quo want to declare its irrelevance and unimportance.
All this talk about the influence of Russia & unions on politics, and yet absolute silence regarding the influence of corporations
— syd🌹🌱 (@SydneyAzari) August 9, 2018
She is the smartest person I’ve found on Twitter lately. And shares the moniker of my favorite fictional spy. I don’t agree with all of her ideas or positions, but dammit, at least she’s thinking. That is much more than I can say for the vast majority of my fellow humans.
The conventional wisdom is that you cannot tickle yourself. Yet, I can do this pretty easily. I don’t seem to have any enormous neurological deficits (despite what some ex-girlfriends might say) so I am not sure what that means, exactly.