Published on February 11 2018

Justice is a tricky word. My belief is that with the rise of the city there also rose a need (urgent?) to give it an objectifying touch. Plato, , one of the very first to have toyed with this notion in a principled way in his work The Republic, somehow...

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Published on January 27 2018

I invite you to go ahead and watch this wonderful documentary about Morocco, the place and the people. I love it! An Australian watching Morocco Part 1 https://youtu.be/L1UV-bBk-1U Part 2

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Published on September 18 2017

“Today, virtually the entire population of the world lives within the borders of those separate territorial communities we call states—about six billion people are citizens or subjects of one state or another. For more than half a billion people living...

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Published on September 16 2017

Allow me to share with you some writing by Rosen (2015) which struck me as interesting in its description of the ordinary person as an intellectual “Ordinary people have intellectual lives. They may never have written a book; they may never even have...

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Published on May 15 2017

Pride's Purge has moved back to tompride.wordpress.com .

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Published on May 15 2017

1 As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY". 2 As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody as...

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Published on May 15 2017

For many years I lived with a guarded heart. I did not know how to extend love and compassion to myself. In my fortieth year that began changing. As I grew to love all of who I am, life started changing in beautiful and mysterious ways. My heart softened...

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Published on February 21 2017

You want to learn physics

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Published on February 20 2017

Noam Chomsky Teaches William F. Buckley a Thing or Two.

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Published on February 20 2017

Whiteness is a dangerous concept. It is not about skin color. It is not even about race. It is about the willful blindness used to justify white supremacy. It is about using moral rhetoric to defend exploitation, racism, mass murder, reigns of terror...

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