Every Good Morning

In Nietzsche’s first chapter, “On the Prejudices of Philosophers” he settles scores with dead philosophers he considers having merely written “personal confessions” and “involuntary and unconscious memoir(s)” instead of philosophy. Reading it is the equivalent of ‘white-line fever’ where you’re roaring, semi-consciously, along an interstate at night, silent, darkness flowing past, the dashboard the only light aside from your headlights. Occasionally a flash of insight breaks through the drone of […]

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  I believe in human agency when a person lives in a free society. In China, Russia or North Korea, or other countries of their ilk, that agency is restricted by threats of State violence. That is not the case here, yet. We should not make excuses for the choices others make. Unless that person is mentally ill, I think we have to respect that person’s capacity to make a […]

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All of these things are true at once: Hamas’s goal is the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel. Iran’s goal is the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel. Hezbollah is Iran’s proxy in this. Israel and Iran have been engaged in a low-level war for years. Netanyahu’s government of right-wing racists is allowing their supporters in the settler community to murder Palestinians in the West Bank. […]

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I awoke this morning to the dead in Maine after one more mass shooting, to the dead in Gaza and Israel and Ukraine, to a MAGA anti-democracy fanatic becoming third in line to the Presidency, to a dramatic increase in antisemitism after the worst pogrom since the Holocaust, to an article in the Times about climate destruction , to Trump the destroyer of everything decent and good, always to Trump, since 2015, […]

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