Here’s another fundamentalist essay. Someone in a mailing list said, and I quote: This is the Socialist Party of the Netherlands version of our “Statement of Principles”. I thought members might find it interesting and maybe use it for discussion purposes at a meeting. Compare ours to theirs. and my response is: I also think…
Blog
Let’s get this all cleared up
Here in the USA we have a document that defines the framework we as a society will live by and declares those rights and freedoms that are granted to everyone. The concept is reasonable, it’s a fine starting point for the rules of a community. Obviously, we now know that some parts of this fine…
Civil Bankruptcy
I just finished watching the movie Snowpiercer(2014). Morally devoid and conceptually stupid. After having watched Frontline about ISIS earlier in the evening, with all the unnecessary snuff film footage, Snowpiercer was brutal. The basic plot, that you can wantonly kill people with all the latest first-person-shooter-game violence you can think of, for the sake of…
Social Networks and Privacy
There’s been a lot of news about Ello, a new social network on the block, but one that promises privacy, in contrast with Facebook. Why don’t people know that diaspora* has been around for a long time, has over a million users and respects privacy and has no ads? Here’s an article about this.
Modern Physics is a Reductio ad Absurdum Argument
Sometimes I think that modern physics has become a reductio ad absurdum argument. Sometime in the 1960s or so, with quarks and continuing to strings and other developments, things started getting ridiculous. Soon, I hope, physicists will say we’ve reached the point of absurdity and declare the argument finished, and we’ll go back and reverse…