Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in Economics, Philosophy, politics on Jan 6th, 2008
Recently I’ve heard both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity say one of the things Americans should be grateful for is “capitalism.” And I just ran across a blog post that shows they should pick a different word.
The post said that you should hire childcare so you can spend less time on raising your kids and [...]
Posted in Economics on Nov 28th, 2007
I keep encountering very intelligent people who claim that Capitalism is a recent phenomenon. Which I find interesting.
How is it possible that people only recently (let’s say, since the founding of America) noticed that money was attractive, and became tempted to build their lives around it?
(After all: “Capitalism” = “Capital-ism,” “Money-ism.” Right? Like “progressivism” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 28th, 2007
I was talking to my students on Thursday about Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV. There he discusses both pride and shame. I pointed out that only Rightist Americans seem to be able to pull off the former (with respect to their being American), while both Right and Left are pretty darn good at at the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2007
One has to have fun with one’s titles.
Bobby Jindal (what a fun name to say) is the projected winner of Louisiana’s gubernatorial (another fun thing to say) race. You know Louisiana. In the South. Where everyone is a racist Republican.
That was the news part. Now it’s time for the being-bitter-and-using-generalizations to complain-about-generalizations part. Ready? Here [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2007
As far as I understand, Buddhists seek two things: enlightenment and Nirvana. (I seek Nirvana as well, but I seek them on my CD rack.) Enlightenment may happen in this life. I believe Nirvana happens to the enlightened person after death. (Please correct me if I’m wrong).
There are some branches of Buddhism (no, Christianity is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2007
Update:
We fell only 5 views short of yesterday’s record (we got 157), which is wonderful. And it’s way better than the NYSE did . . . . Thank you all!
Question:
A Buddhist monk and an industrial capitalist are sitting in a bar. The capitalist tells the monk that Buddhism and Capitalism are actually partners in the [...]
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