February 2010
31 posts
“Grace, then, means neither that men can or ought to do something, nor that they...”
– Barth, 1968 p216-217, on Romans 7:16
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“The functioning of a competition not only requires adequate organization of...”
– Hayek, 2007, on individualism and collectivism, p87.
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“It is important not to confuse opposition against this kind of planning with a...”
– Hayek, 2007, on individualism and collectivism, p85-86.
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“The dispute between the modern planners [socialist thinkers] and their opponents...”
– Hayek, 2007, on individualism and collectivism, p85.
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“It must also not be forgotten that socialism is not only by far the most...”
– Hayek, 2007, on individualism and collectivism, p84.
“To the great apostles of political freedom, [“freedom,” the word]...”
– Hayek, 2007, on the the great utopia, p77-78.
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“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. ...”
– Alexix de Tocqueville, Oeuvres completes d’Alexis de Tocqueville, vol. 9 (1866), p.546, quoted in Hayek, 2007, on the great utopia, p77.
“That socialism has displaced liberalism as the doctrine held by the great...”
– Hayek, 2007, on the great utopia, p76.
“All we are here concerned to show is how completely, though gradually and by...”
– Hayek, 2007, on the abandoned road of liberalism, p73. (Originally written in 1938.)
Actually, you are a human doing.
I appreciate the saying, “I’m a human being, not a human doing.” I think we usually use it to mean that we are more than what we do, or that we need time to rest and “be.”
But on its face, the statement is false and, at root, gnostic. (But I repeat myself.)
We are what we choose to do with these bodies, as much as what we are in our in our inner-life. So work,...
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“Lack of experience diminishes our power of taking a comprehensive view of the...”
– Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption, quoted in Crawford, 2009, p23.
“There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary...”
– Hayek, 2007, on the abandoned road of liberalism, p71.
“Too often, the defenders of free markets forget that what we really want is free...”
– Crawford, 2009, on solidarity and self-reliance, p209.
“… ‘autonomy,’ … means giving a law to oneself. The idea...”
– Crawford, 2009, on solidarity and self reliance, p208.
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Band Name Idea: "The Cult of the Sovereign Self"
“[This] kind of self-reliance … is essentially different from the cult of...”
– Crawford, 2009, on solidarity and self-reliance, p207.
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“A regard for human excellence is the aristocratic ethos. To speak of...”
– Crawford, 2009, on solidarity and self-reliance, p201.
I am compelled by Karl Barth’s and T.F Torrance’s scientific view of Theology. ”Scientific” because in real science, one must give oneself to the subject matter, must subordinate oneself to it, in order to fully know it. They have an unlikely (to me) co-traveller in Matthew Crawford, philosopher, bike mechanic and author of Shop Class as Soulcraft. But I bet they would...
“Interfaces are one of the principal sources from which a person learns about his...”
– User Interfaces that Lie & the Users that Believe them.
“It is common today to locate one’s “true self” in one’s...”
– Crawford, 2009, on work, leisure and full engagement, p181.
“The things we know best are the ones we contend with in some realm of regular...”
– Crawford, 2009, on thinking as doing, p163-4.
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Vectors are your friends
Directionality, such as one for the other, is as important as Proportionality, the relationship of values of the items in question.
given that we fleshly beings can think abstractly, abstraction itself is not a bad thing. But pursued to its limits, its dehumanizing effects are the fruit of Modernity.
WatchTypography + Archtecture
When strangers “comment” on blog posts, it’s not a conversation, it’s an abstraction of a conversation. Which makes Facebook Friending rather interesting.
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ideas are not linear, and i am not original