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March 16, 2022
Estimating: demographic realities versus perceptions
From YouGov, a fascinating presentation of survey results: “Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups.”
March 15, 2022
Turkish proverb about clowns in palaces
An ancient Turkish proverb says: When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a sultan.The palace becomes a circus. I recall that proverb, seemingly every election we have. Though it applies more generally: Places are what you make of them.
March 14, 2022
Art and the mirror of one’s soul
Shaw said many obnoxious things, but this is very good. And it fits modernist and postmodernist art well: “Why Art Became Ugly.”
Mis artículos en español (my articles in Spanish): Nietzsche and his sister
La hermana de Nietzsche y The Will to Power [transcripción de Open College] Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Este episodio está inspirado en mi re-lectura de The Will to Power de Nietzsche. […]”cada palabra de The Will to Power fue escrita por Nietzsche en sus cuadernos de notas de 1883-1888″. Así que tiene ese …
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La hermana de Nietzsche y The Will to Power [transcripción de Open College] La hermana de Nietzsche y The Will to Power [transcripción de Open College] Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Este episodio está inspirado en mi re-lectura de The Will to Power de Nietzsche. […]”cada palabra de The Will to Power fue escrita …
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March 13, 2022
Audiobook with timestamping now (Explaining Postmodernism)
For ease of browsing and navigation, this audio edition read by author Stephen R.C. Hicks now has timestamps for each chapter and section: 00:00:00 EXPLAINING POSTMODERNISM 00:00:25 CHAPTER ONE: What Postmodernism Is 00:02:22 The postmodern vanguard: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, Rorty 00:09:22 Modern and postmodern 00:12:22 Modernism and the Enlightenment 00:22:50 Postmodernism versus the Enlightenment 00:25:06 …
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March 12, 2022
Cathy Young’s “The Return of the Anti‐Enlightenment”
Worth reading: The full text of Young’s judicious 2022 article for Cato Policy Report. Related: Chapter One of Explaining Postmodernism for an overview of the Enlightenment against which the postmoderns are reacting. Full audiobook here. My Enlightenment Vision flowchart is pitched at a high level of abstraction, showing schematically how the philosophical revolution of the …
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March 11, 2022
How to revise Bill 67 (mandating CRT) to your preferred ideological values
Choose your preferred cause (anti-Satan-worship, gay rights, Muhammed the prophet, veganism, anti-Communism, or whatever), and adapt this clause from Ontario’s Bill 67: “If the Minister learns, upon conducting an investigation or otherwise, that a member of the board does not have a proven commitment to racial equity in the education sector, the Minister shall require …
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Vladimir Putin has quoted Leontiev approvingly
For explanation, see my 10-minute discussion in this Current Events with Robert Tracinski:
To define *Post-* Modernism, first define *Modernism*
My six-dimensional explanation, from the Philosophy of Education course series.
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