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Shh!! He’ll hear us!

By Pixel at March 20, 2007 at 8:23 pm. Filed in note to self, slice of life

I’m staying in my friend Sandy’s house for the week. I met her roommate two hours ago. Soon after I met her boyfriend Matt.

They’re having sex right now. They’re trying to be quiet, but as you can see from this map,

________________
| . . . . . . . |
|______|O . . O |
| . . . . . . O |
|______| . . .  |
| Them | . . Me |
|_______________|
(No, the walls really are that thin), they can’t possibly be that quiet.

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Philosophers eat their young

By Pixel at March 20, 2007 at 9:39 am. Filed in advocacy

Philosophy as a discipline peaked in ancient Greece. Then Aristotle messed it up.

See, Socrates took questions to the people in power. With Socrates, philosophy and Socratic questioning was enough to scare the church, noblemen and politicians. Socrates was so fantastic, in fact, that Plato spent the entire rest of his life writing little plays in which Socrates was still alive and still asking tough questions. Psychologists would consider Plato traumatized now. I think it was PTSD.

Plato had a school and in that school he taught Aristotle who had some ideas of his own. Aristotle thought, rightly or wrongly, that women were inferior, that slavery was justified and that some people (coincidentally, the lower class) were just weak-willed and could not be taught anything.

That was about 2,500 years ago and you would think that philosophy had outgrown its initial prejudices, but apparently old habits die hard. Continue reading Philosophers eat their young…

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