As the Worm Turns

For all my hard-hearted cynicism, there is something about Michel Gondry that just makes me laugh.

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Michel Gondry, television, parody

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Let’s look at these two sentences:
What can even be said about that? And nobody really seems to find this odd or disturbing or objectionable at all — that night after night, one of the featured “journalists” of a major news network goes on television and, with some of our most prestigious […]

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Earlier I mentioned the importance of distinguishing between relativism and pluralism without ever getting around to defining pluralism; an oversight due to laziness on my part.
Luckily, a recent skerfuffle between Damon Linker and Matthew Yglesias over the late Richard Rorty can act as a nice little primer on pluralism and its grounds. Linker claims that […]

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Richard Rorty has died.
Like many philosophers, I moved from reading cheap Penguin editions of Plato to reading Rorty — primarily because Rorty was much easier than reading Heidegger. While I eventually came to disagree with his positions he was still a huge formative influence. I probably wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing had I not […]

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This seems like an incredibly useful site, if only for resources like How to Be a Crank. The steps seem pretty simple: come up with a wacky idea, disseminate it amongst the gullible, refuse to respond to criticism and claim persecution when people try to engage you in open debate. It doesn’t just sound like […]

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So, what’s the connection between the plotline of “Heroes” and the 9/11 Truth virus?
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Both involve secret conspiracies to blow up New York for political gain. But what’s the relationship between them? Are the producers and writers of “Heroes” secretly infected with the truth virus? Perhaps trying to make the idea more palatable for the […]

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