Tag Archives: Utilitarianism

FREEDOM IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Dave

She’s got no braids in the inkwell, no money on the prize. Ain’t got no boyfriend behind her that she can’t hypnotize. And if you wanna see yourself without delusions or delies. All you do is just look into her … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alexander Bain, Bertha Newcombe, Betty Friedan, Bruce Mazlish, Don Mclean, Edward Bernays, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Emily Davies, Feminism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Harriet Taylor, Herbert Marcuse, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, John Stuart Mill The Spirit of the Age, Marcuse On Liberation, Sigmund Freud, Utilitarianism, Women's suffrage | 2 Comments

VICARIOUSLY KILLING DAD: APPEASING THOSE ''PASSIVE SUSCEPTIBILITIES''

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Dave

“I Prefer John Locke To Jesus Christ, I Prefer John Stuart Mill To Jesus Christ…I Prefer Jon Stewart To Jesus Christ” (Ayaan Hirsi Ali ) Hirsi Ali, the atheist, feminist, former Muslim, is currently writing a new book, ”Short Cuts … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alexander Pope, Alphonse Bertillon, American Enterprise Institute, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bart Schultz, Brian Lipson, Burke, Charles Darwin, Chin Lieu Ten, Edmund Burke, Francis Galton, Frederick Hayek, Geert Wilders, Harriet Taylor, Henry Fuseli, James Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Locke, John Ruskin, John Stuart Mill, Marmontel, Robert Fludd, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Stephen Colbert, Tears for Fears, The Colbert Report, Thomas Carlyle, Utilitarianism, William Wordsworth | Leave a comment

MYSTICS LEFT STANDING AT THE ALTAR

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Dave

What Allen Ginsberg would call jawboning over the ”cosmic ferocious” , an unlikely but fortuitous lunch with Jeremy Bentham( 1748-1832) and Franz Kafka over one of Ginsberg’s celebrated ”reality sandwiches”; perhaps Kosher deli-style with the pickle with the King of … Continue reading →