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According to UC Irvine professor of informatics Dr. Gloria Mark, once you are captured by a distraction, it can take up to twenty-three minutes to get back on track.4 And since the average person succumbs to distractions an average of every
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“philosophy is no longer concerned with the quest for the truth of the world and so is reduced to a limited sphere, which only ensures the uninterrupted flow of capitalist markets. Truth as a philosophical category thus becomes enslaved to the unthinking markets of capitalism; philosophy at the service of the robber barons. Truth's instantiation is thus brutally reduced to the exercise of pure and arbitrary power in various domains of the world.”
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“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
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“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
― Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
― Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.”
― Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
― Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
“justice must have an improvisational character if it is not to fall back into the sort of legal structure that, in spite of its intentions, can only result in the perpetuation of injustice.”
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Philosophy
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This is the group is intended for anyone interested in philosophy. It is just starting, but when I searched the public groups, I didn't find anything ...more
Cognitive Dissidents
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A meeting place for people dedicated to subverting oppressive 'realities' by whatever means we're inspired to use. ...more
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