Thursday, November 17, 2016

Buy Nothing Day

Jon Stewart on President-elect Trump, hypocrisy in America

Jon Stewart reacts to election results

Cornel West. economic insecurity and cultural scapegoating

the abysmal failure of the Democratic party, and escalating poverty of working people unleashed a hate-filled populism and protectionism that threaten to tear apart the fragile fiber of what is left of US democracy. 
since the most explosive fault lines in present-day America are first and foremost racial, then gender, homophobic, ethnic and religious, we gird ourselves for a frightening future.
Despite some progressive words and symbolic gestures, Obama chose to ignore Wall Street crimes, reject bailouts for homeowners, oversee growing inequality and facilitate war crimes like US drones killing innocent civilians abroad.
Obama has been reluctant to target black suffering – be it in overcrowded prisons, decrepit schools or declining workplaces. Yet, despite that, we get celebrations of the neoliberal status quo couched in racial symbolism and personal legacy.  Meanwhile, poor and working class citizens of all colors have continued to suffer in relative silence.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/17/american-neoliberalism-cornel-west-2016-election?CMP=share_btn_fb

Wittgenstein's lost archive

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/26/wittgenstein-lost-archive?CMP=share_btn_fb

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Leonard Cohen. Poem

I didn’t kill myself
when things went wrong
I didn’t turn
to drugs or teaching
I tried to sleep
but when I couldn’t sleep
I learned to write
I learned to write
what might be read
on nights like this
by one like me

Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen - Everybody knows

Leonard Cohen - Democracy

Saturday, November 5, 2016

Thorstein Veblen. Sociologist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen

Cornel West. Spiritual blackout

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/11/03/spiritual-blackout-america-election/v7lWSybxux1OPoBg56dgsL/story.html

Technology and anxiety


a search for love in the world is link to something that is essential to us as light, heat, food & water

Friday, November 4, 2016

The Way We Live, Love And Work

On Love


a critique of romanticism

Alain de Botton. Atheism 2.0

http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_atheism_2_0

Alain de Botton. A kinder, gentler philosophy of success

http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_philosophy_of_success

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

La doctrina del shock. Naomi Klein

Kwame Anthony Appiah. About Race

“Race is something we make; it’s not something that makes us”

Philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah examines how the modern research of genetics has cast doubt on the 19th century theory of a racial essence. He argues that genetics and environment impact on an individual’s identity, but highlights research that has proved that genes are not inherited in "racial packages", in the third of his 2016 BBC Reith Lectures, Colour.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04dqwcy?

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Electronic Frontier - AT&T

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/28/electronic_frontier_foundation_police_depts_paid