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The Reddit Raiders or How to Stop the Game
It is difficult not to cheer for the group of amateur investors on a Reddit messageboard who began buying stock in a video games retailer...
Fred Guerin
Feb 6, 20212 min read
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Humans as Predicting and Predictable Machines
In an interesting piece in Aeon ('The Problem with Prediction') Joseph Fridman writes “René Descartes claimed that cognition was the...
Fred Guerin
Jan 26, 20215 min read
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The Commodification of the Lifeworld
To commodify something, say a work of art or the environment, is to turn it into that which can be bought or sold. The end goal of...
Fred Guerin
Jan 24, 20214 min read
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Impeachment Act 2
Well, the first stage of impeachment is over with and the results 232 for and 197 against. A total of ten republicans voted with...
Fred Guerin
Jan 13, 20214 min read
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Eratosthenes of Cyrene
The painting below is called Eratosthenes Teaching in Alexandria, (1635) by Bernardo Strozzi. (A bit of an anachronism here--in...
Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20211 min read
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Michael Sandal's Kant Lecture
Michael Sandel talks about 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant's understanding of human freedom and his elaboration of a...
Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20211 min read
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Philanthropy and Profit the Bill Gates Way
The Bill Gates Foundation: Call it what it is: not a Foundation but a Front to advance the interests of an already super-wealthy elite....
Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20212 min read
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Plato's Cave Revisited
Back in 1973 Orson Welles did a pretty good job bringing Plato's Cave Parable to life through animation. "It is the task of the...
Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20211 min read
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Julian Assange v. Power Elite
British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. That is something to cheer about....
Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20212 min read
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Let's Not Return to Normal
As always, the cries of politicians on both sides for things to 'return to normal' after the COVID pandemic and the recent thuggery in...
Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20212 min read
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Wearing a Mask as an Act of Love
Wearing a mask in a time of a viral pandemic that spreads mainly through the air when people are near each other, is not a selfish act....
Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20212 min read
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Free Speech v. Inciting Violence
Trump supporters are presently lashing out at FB and Twitter for violating their 'dear leader's' constitutional right to free speech...
Fred Guerin
Jan 10, 20212 min read
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Voter Fraud? No. Voter Suppression? Yes, indeed
Image in Rolling Stone, July 16, 2020 In yet another court decision Trump's lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Commission failed 'as...
Fred Guerin
Dec 13, 20203 min read
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On Lying and Truth in a Post-Trump World
There is a certain inevitability to lying in politics not just because as Hannah Arendt said “truthfulness has never been counted among...
Fred Guerin
Dec 10, 20208 min read
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On The Manifold Understandings of Time and the Phenomenology of Temporality
Gollum's Riddle This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays...
Fred Guerin
Nov 29, 202016 min read
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On Critical Thinking (Again!)
It the age of social media the virtue of critical thinking--and I mean here questioning not just others but our own beliefs and...
Fred Guerin
Oct 1, 20205 min read
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A Sunday Sermon from a Local Pagan
The historical Jesus Christ of Nazareth was a rabbi and a radical social activist. He was a flawed being like the rest of us. He sat...
Fred Guerin
Oct 1, 20206 min read
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On 'How Science Works' Within a Capitalist System
Illustration by Jasper Rietman In an interesting recent article in the New Yorker Joshua Rothman, situates the question of 'the way...
Fred Guerin
Oct 1, 20206 min read
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A National Disgrace
The first United States presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden took place on September 29, 2020, with a further two...
Fred Guerin
Oct 1, 20202 min read
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Chevron v Steven Donziger
Those of us who consider themselves on the left of the political spectrum all understand how corporations and powerful individuals can...
Fred Guerin
Sep 6, 20203 min read
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