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Diogenes, Cynicism & Future American Values
According to legend, Alexander the Great came to visit the Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. Alexander wanted to fulfill a wish for Diogenes and asked him what he desired. According to the version...
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Conversation & its Deaf Cousin, Social Networking
Ever feel rushed to get the point when you’re talking to someone? I know I do. I sort of presume lack of attention on the parts of others when I begin speaking to some audience. This may have been a...
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Thinking Adequately, at The Right Time
My writing has slowed a bit, lately, as some of you might have taken notice. This is for a variety of reasons, not one of them being a wish to withdraw from sharing my work. In an effort to get the...
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Gossip and its Forked Tongue
“Very few people can resist saying malicious things about their acquaintances, and even on occasion about their friends; yet when people hear that anything has been said against themselves, they are...
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Answering: What is Philosophy?
A brief disclaimer and references for additional information about the philosophical tenets underpinning the central theme of this article: Many philosophers have contributed to the following methods...
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The Limits of Honesty: Intellectual Masochism
“When you bump against the limits of your own honesty it is as though your thoughts get into a whirlpool, an infinite regress: You can say what you like, it takes you no further.” -Ludwig...
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“Autopia” A Metaphor by Ian Kerr
In my reading of the weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal, a typical event for my Monday afternoon as it begins my work week’s ending, I came across an article that struck me as oddly familiar....
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Correspondence-Theory & Photography
I’m working on a piece right now that is substantially more challenging in its breadth and depth of analysis than anything I’ve previously shared, and I expect that it will be at least another week...
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A Science of Lying
I noticed something interesting the other day that I thought was probably worth sharing. If it’s not all that interesting on its own, it’s probably at least a curious peek into my ways of thinking....
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New Site (ThoughtDummy.com)
I’m now self-hosting Thought Dummy. Apologies for my apparent disappearance and frequent changes in domain hosting, site titling etc. etc. etc. *Update (04/1/2013)–At the risk of losing the assumed...
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Light Scribblings: What Photography is Not And Why a Writer “Writes”
“Light Scribblings” describes the untrained eye’s awareness and thus its productions in today’s market for digital photography. I won’t fully satisfy my discontent for this cultural phenomenon with...
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Gregory Corso: The Beat Vision
Robert King & Gregory Corso: Taken from The Beat Vision, a primary sourcebook Edited by Arthur and Kit Knight RK: Do you feel some kind of stress to express America? GC: Oh yeah, I love...
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Harry Potter, Conspiracy, Theory & Fiction: A Hollywood Analogy
What’s so exciting about a conspiracy theory? In essence, the conspiracy theorist is saying to the unfortunate souls in whom they confide: “I know something you don’t know.” Well, I know lots of things...
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Quality: What is it?
There are countless questions implied when raising the subject of quality, all of them worthy of some examining; but, for the purposes of this article, I must restrict myself to only briefly covering,...
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History Lessons: Thinking Outside the Box
It might be overreaching to say this is something an entire generation, my generation, has experienced in their so-called, “growing up.” I do know, though, that it’s what I’ve experienced. And, because...
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My Brain is a Record Player: Introspective Mining
So this morning I had an interesting thought… It’s mostly about me, and how unusual I am. Sometimes even I call myself crazy. But it’s also about skepticism, and training of the mind as having a...
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To Punk a Psychic: My Own Psychic Forecast
Once again, I’ve got a sinus infection. I swear it’s a quarterly affair. And though I do feel miserable, it hasn’t completely withered my inspiration for the day. As it usually happens when I’m sick...
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Appearance & Reality: Scratching the Surface
I’ve always been fascinated by illusions, in a sense. The whole, how do you know based on this vision experience of yours, what you know? It’s a question best finessed by epistemology, I think. But...
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The Limits of Honesty: Intellectual Masochism
“When you bump against the limits of your own honesty it is as though your thoughts get into a whirlpool, an infinite regress: You can say what you like, it takes you no further.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein,...
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All the World’s a Stage: A Jingle, Our Medley of Living
William Shakespeare - All the world’s a stage (from As You Like It 2/7) All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his...
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