February 2012
123 posts
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich [The Painted Drum] (via propiisdevolatdalis)
“Life is purposeless. Don’t be shocked. The whole idea of purpose is wrong — it...”
– Osho (via lucifelle)
“Justice is not merely the pursuit of common aims by unequal parties whose...”
– Thomas Nagel, “The Problem of Global Justice”
Ethics of Drone War; Fat Man, Thin Man, Innocent...
Excerpted from a really good short introduction into the field of the philosophy/law of drone war, recently published by Stanford Law Review:
The Obama Administration has ratcheted the use of remote drone attacks to unprecedented levels—the Bush Doctrine honed to rapier sharpness. The interesting question about the new model is one of ethics more than legality. Let us assume the principal...
Things I Saw
This morning in the park, I saw:
Two young boys (around eight years old, I would guess) rolling around in the grass and kissing.
An old, dignified looking man (leather loafers noted) hugging and kissing a tree.
Childhood and Memory
In an essay on the writer Seán O’Faoláin, Conor Cruise O’Brien wrote about ideas of childhood and memory: “There is for all of us a twilight zone of time, stretching back for a generation or two before we were born, which never quite belongs to the rest of history. Our elders have talked their memories into our memories until we come to possess some sense of a continuity...
From a rather enthusiastic comment on an interview about living alone:
“Living alone, without any deadlines, obligations or hassles, is sheer bliss. One can take every day as it comes and enjoy the freedom to decide what to do or ignore everything, if one so wishes. The reward for the long years of toiling away has finally rewarded me with the ultimate luxury of solitude which I value above...
