Sunday Firesides: Be Not a Consumer of Life
Consumerism is largely associated with the desire to acquire material goods. But ever since its dawning at the turn of the 20th century, its ethos has slowly, often imperceptibly, seeped…
Zuck Celebrates $1 Trillion Valuation, Dismissed Antitrust Suits With Bizarre Flag-Waving Instagram Post
https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/07/05/0137240/zuck-celebrates-1-trillion-valuation-dismissed-antitrust-suits-with-bizarre-flag-waving-instagram-post?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter "Make America weird again," quipped CNBC, describing Mark Zuckerberg's Instagram post today commemorating America's national Independence Day holiday MarketWatch explains: Yes, that's the Facebook Inc. chief executive wakeboarding while…
Heard It On The Grape Vine
by Thomas O’Dwyer Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough,A flask of wine, a book of verse—and ThouBeside me singing in the wilderness—And Wilderness is Paradise enow. On…
The Persistence of Pyramids
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2021/03/the-persistence-of-pyramids.html ^RoyaltyAristocracyChurch OfficialsThe Merchant ClassSkilled Crafts WorkersThe Goddamned PeasantsThe Unbelieving Under ClassCriminals to Be Caged & TorturedThose Whom We Will Publicly Execute ^WASPSWhite CatholicsWhite-Skinned JewsModel Minority AsiansWhite-Skinned, Anglo-LatinxAmerican Indians as…
Reading John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty in the Age of “Cancel Culture” and “Fake News”
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/reading-john-stuart-mills-on-liberty-in-the-age-of-cancel-culture-and-fake-news/?fbclid=IwAR30aKoJ8GfqYxtGaEUA9M3INZ9oxckXxWDc__x3Z0nmnNptiuShJfeCLfo We live in a time when critics deride “cancel culture” as narrowing the range of acceptable opinions. When others contend that what is called “cancel culture” is merely a…