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In Rebecca’s Capitalism and Egoism post (which is now dragging out at over 60 comments — no wonder we take so long to get new posts up!), smoothie questions our need to partially abandon the dictionary definition of “value”, implying that our need to do so reveals some shortcoming in our overall chain of justification. [...]
Quillan Carranza had his 9 month portraits today.
Many interesting things happened in 1969, but here’s one that didn’t make the charts. I am sitting in a room, by Alvin Lucier (1969) (26 MB, 45 minutes) The piece describes itself. And while the urge to skip ahead might be irresistible, allow yourself the chance to listen to it in full at least once, [...]
In the comments section of an earlier post on ethics, Charity from shesright asked how my egoist ethics is consistent with my support of capitalism and wondered what society might look like if it consisted of egoists living in a free market. Charity and I agree that capitalism is the proper economic system, but she [...]
This past Wednesday marked our first substantial snowfall of the season. There’s really no such thing as a homeschool “snow day”, but we homeschoolers never need an excuse to spend the day enjoying a storm and playing in the snow! The kids had a blast sledding and throwing snowballs in the freezing cold. I, of [...]
Surprise. My favorite line: “Shortages have sporadically appeared with items from milk to coffee since early 2003, when Chavez began regulating prices for 400 basic products as a way to counter inflation and protect the poor.” Yeah. Perhaps that wasn’t a very good way to try to protect them.
(I wasn’t going to post anything new until I could jump back into the interesting comment discussions going on in other posts, but my schedule is getting even heavier, so I figured I’d post a quickie.) I read this story this morning and felt betrayed. Or more accurately, that Wal-Mart was betraying itself. I have [...]
J.D. posted a clip of a live performance of “Elephant Talk” by King Crimson recently, and I just stumbled upon it this evening. Coincidentally, I just received The Columbus Book of Euchre (in reality, a ninety page stapled pamphlet, but with dead-on euchre info) from Amazon earlier this afternoon. I know, I know, these two [...]
My recent post Mere Absurdity, Part 2 sparked quite a bit of discussion regarding the morality of self-sacrifice. The comments raised several questions regarding Johnathan’s and my system of ethics. Specifically, readers were interested to know why we say giving without the expectation of return is immoral, what characteristics are considered virtues (and vices) in [...]