Open Letter to Freepers: The U.S. As You've Known It Is Already Dead
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While reading the following news story: http://uk.reuters.com/article/motoringAutoNews/idUKTRE5406CF20090501 ---------------- I was reminded two very important quotes from John Adams about the American Revolution: * As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 - 1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington. o Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1815-08-24),...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 08:11:50 AM
Meritocracy: The Appalling Ideal?
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Did you know that John Edwards is the son of mill worker? Did you? Edwards's toothy display of hopeful vacuities at the Democratic National Convention moved socialist economist Max Sawicky to lament yet "another paean to the self-made man." The American Prospect's Matthew Yglesias pushed the anti-bootstrapping point even harder, trumpeting on his blog "the insight that equality of opportunity and the cult of the self-made man is an utter fraud both empirically and morally. Meritocracy is an appalling ideal. Being born with the inclination and ability to become financially successful is no more morally praiseworthy than being born with...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 08:11:50 AM
Manifesto of the "Futurist" Painters (Why our Artistic Culture is in ruin)!
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Futurism was an international art movement founded in Italy in 1909. It was (and is) a refreshing contrast to the weepy sentimentalism of Romanticism. The Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and cities; they embraced the exciting new world that was then upon them rather than hypocritically enjoying the modern world?s comforts while loudly denouncing the forces that made them possible. Fearing and attacking technology has become almost second nature to many people today; the Futurist manifestos show us an alternative philosophy. Too bad they were all Fascists. TO THE YOUNG ARTISTS OF ITALY! The cry of rebellion which...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 08:11:50 AM
Meaningful Art in a Meaningful Universe: the Fallacies of Abstractionist Ideology
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Meaningful Art in a Meaningful Universe: the Fallacies of Abstractionist Ideology by Frederick Turner HUMAN BEINGS TAKE A NATURAL DELIGHT IN FORM and pattern. Our eyes and visual cortex are designed to pick out shapes and hints of half-hidden presences, and to recognize the colors, textures, and fine details of natural objects. These are the necessary skills of a hunter-gatherer species, adapted to follow the obscure tracks of fleeing prey, to resolve the outline of a camouflaged animal in hiding, to remember and find again a nutritious berry, root, or herb. Nature rewards the exercise of such skills, which...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 08:11:50 AM
Scientists Reveal Ideal European Nose Size
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Scientists reveal ideal European nose size Swiss scientists have worked out the ideal dimensions for a European nose. They say at the age of 30, the average European man's nose is 5.8cm long, and sticks out 2.6cm from the face. For a woman of the same age, the average length is 5.1cm with 2.2cm sticking out. In the first research of its kind, scientists and doctors have put together growth charts showing normal nose sizes for every age group from newborn to 97. The aim of the research, reported in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, is to help doctors...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 08:11:50 AM
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