The host? What is that? It is the militia: every man able to fight.
Source date (UTC): 2017-11-25 10:49:00 UTC
The host? What is that? It is the militia: every man able to fight.
Source date (UTC): 2017-11-25 10:49:00 UTC
DEFINITION: “INTELLECTUAL” (Idea Worker, Seller of Ideas)
—“Curt, define the term ‘intellectual’ pls.”— Francesco Principi
“Idea-workers that exercise influence on policy makers and public opinion, but are not directly accountable for the results.”
“Those whose careers are built on the creation and dissemination of ideas have played a role in many societies out of all proportion to their numbers. Whether that role has, on balance, made those around them better off or worse off is one of the key questions of our times.”
Empirically speaking it is very hard to argue that intellectuals in the 20th c have produced more harm than good.
See Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society”.
Source date (UTC): 2017-11-23 12:10:00 UTC
HOW DO YOU DEFINE PHILOSOPHY?
Philosophy. Mindfulness. Dominance over the mind in the face of the unknown. Using grammar of technology. Tech(philio) vs Fiction(religion). Deflation vs Inflation. Mindfulness was necessary at ‘worry’ post-human-scales. All civ’s encountered demand for mindfulness as scale increased – and trust decreased. All about the same time. Probably due to trade. Westerners used competing (class) variants of mindfulness. Science can in fact provide mindfulness for those with the ‘ability’. Sport, Family, Work, Ritual, Wealth, Science Philosophy/Reason, Fiction, Religion. All can provide mindfulness (Disciplined thought in the face of the unknown/complexity). The principle problem of scale was creating mindfulness through trust. The only question is whether one’s form of mindfulness encouraged adaptation (philosophy > reason > science) or discouraged it (religion > abrahamism).
Source date (UTC): 2017-11-21 08:25:00 UTC