How to Read Žižek These contradictions don’t show that ideology is “irrational” — the problem is exactly the opposite, that there are too many reasons supporting their views. Žižek argues that these piled-up rationalizations demonstrate that something else is going on. Have been a Slavoj Žižek fan follower for a while. Maybe i should read […]
Exiting the Vampire Castle The problem that the Vampires’ Castle was set up to solve is this: how do you hold immense wealth and power while also appearing as a victim, marginal and oppositional? The solution was already there – in the Christian Church. (the comments are brutal, even by low internet standards)
Loblaw admits to bread price-fixing scheme spanning more than 14 years And Loblaw says it will start offering $25 gift cards on Jan. 8 to customers who declare they bought certain (as yet unnamed) breads at some of its (as yet unnamed) chains before March 1, 2015 – a gesture that the company says could […]
Girl Asks Rick And Morty’s Co-Author How To Cope With Depression, Does Not Expect His Response Dark thoughts will echo off the walls of your skull, they will distort and magnify. When you open your mouth (or an anonymous journal or blog or sketchpad), these thoughts go out. They’ll be back but you gotta get […]
Marlene Bird, dead at 50, survived vicious assault that led to loss of her legs “I liked that apology,” she told media. “It feels good. I don’t have to have bad dreams, I hope.”
Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical The left — especially Marxist left — has a long history of glorifying technological progress and proposing it as the solution to humanity’s woes. Rather than blaming the machine for pollution, Marxists blame capitalism for being a system that demands that firms pollute […]
‘Is this what the west is really like?’ How it felt to leave China for Britain In the evenings, I hid my long hair in my coat and walked along the graffiti-smeared streets and piss-drenched alleyways, passing beggars with their dogs, and I asked myself: “So is this what the rich west is really like?” […]
The David Foster Wallace Disease Partly, I’m writing about Wallace’s high-powered self-hatred machine because it’s a way of making his disappearance from the earth seem like an inevitability—a curse he was born with. Although there’s some validity to the view that he’s a kind of martyr, he was really just an animal in an environment, […]
Atlantic cod study renews debate over grey seal cull The failure of the cod to rebound even without an active fishery has only bolstered that theory. Yet, all official research seemed to disprove it, with field studies pointing to other unexplained causes of cod mortality, and the limited influence of seals. But now, a study […]
Rethinking the Big Russian Revolution What would Zygar like people to conclude after their fifteen-month journey, through Russia’s hundred-year-ago history? All he will say is that: “Everything that happened to us, in the 20th century, and is happening now is a consequence of the events of 1917.”
New post: A quote from Babylon 5 https://mooresie.net/?p=4390
New post: Universe 25 https://mooresie.net/?p=4385
