Perhaps the most communicable libertarian meme-- and one of the most mischievous-- is the attempt to paint taxation as theft. First, it's dishonest. Most libertarians theoretically accept government for defense and law enforcement. (There are some absolutists who don't even believe in ...
A stock photo taken in 2015 went viral in 2017 when internet users edited it to represent wanting something while ignoring what you already have. It took home Meme of the Year at the 2018 Shorty Awards. The grass is always greener... ...
Deeper down than my skepticism, though, is my fear that maybe some hurdles are too significant. Sure, I can conceptualize the mindset of a serial killer who believes they’re taking an ethically-sound approach to righting societal wrongs, but a character experiencing the development of a romanti...
Easily the most divisive element ofSt. Anger's sound was Ulrich's hollow, ringing snare drum, which has been compared endlessly (and charitably) to the sound of a trash can lid. Rather than some elaborate ploy to mess with listeners' heads and reinvent the concept of metal drumming, Ulrich...
When one understands that quantum reality is an absolute change, "flux is crux," reality and all of its manifestations arise from a proemial quantum quantal changæ 'Brownian motion' protomeme, we can affirm persuasively that EPR "just did not get it — they just did not fathom quantum ...
It seems to me that many people (e.g., me and several people I've discussed this with) have not so much an intrinsic aversion to pain as a fear of how we'll act if in pain. (As the main effect. I doalsosimply like not being in pain, but the fear of how the pain will impa...
I am not trying to sound ‘above’ anyone, because to be honest 95% if not 99 of Muslims label themselves a party, and I NOW technically believe anyone who does label themselves anything are just not educated enough. maybe they know 99.99% of Islam. but that .1% will make t...
When they enter the exam room, the baby tells the doctor she's "not well," and just to emphasize that fact, they overlay the Sad Trumpet Sound Effect™ over her walking. Dear reader, this is when I, emotionally, lost it. I wasn't sure I could carry on from this point, but beca...
But the anti-government meme is not about facts, it's about myth. It's part of a complex of values that have exerted a powerful hold over the American mind-- a preference for the provincial over the cosmopolitan, the amateur over the expert, the voluntary over the mandatory, the organic...
My new pet theory is that Kant was being pulled in one direction by "wanting to make things as subjective as possible so he can claim more epistemic immediacy and therefore more immunity to skeptical arguments", and in the opposite direction by "not wanting to sound like a crazy person like...