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“What am I doing here in this endless winter?” —Franz Kafka
#literature
#philosophy
#tuesday
#PhilSky
1 day ago
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“This part of the country seems to have all hell for a basement.” —Rudyard Kipling, in Alberta.
#Monday
#literature
#PhilSky
#philosophy
2 days ago
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“All the world's a stage.” —William Shakespeare
#literature
#PhilSky
#friday
#politics
5 days ago
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“The past cannot embed a future which leads back to its own alteration, as the alteration would inevitably deny a pathway back to that same future.” Read here:
thereclamation.co/primer-and-the-impossibility-of-time-travel
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#film
#technology
#thursday
6 days ago
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“The way up is the way down.” —Heraclitus
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#thursday
7 days ago
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“Capitalist industry and commerce create the material conditions of a new world in the same way as geological revolutions have created the surface of the earth.” —Karl Marx
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#tuesday
8 days ago
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“Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.” —Thomas More
#philosophy
#utopia
#monday
#PhilSky
9 days ago
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“The meaning of Epstein should not be partisan scorekeeping. These are crimes committed against flesh-and-blood working class children whose victimization was enabled by capitalist class power.” Read here:
thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-the-meaning-of-jeffrey-epstein
#PhilSky
#Friday
#Trump
12 days ago
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“The philosopher’s treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.” —Wittgenstein
#PhilSky
#wednesday
#philosophy
14 days ago
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“Any day stands equal to the rest.” —Heraclitus
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#Greece
#monday
16 days ago
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“Every legal constitution is the product of a revolution.” —Rosa Luxemburg
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#socialistsunday
17 days ago
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“The great man is the one who does not lose his child's heart.” —Mencius
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#friday
19 days ago
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“Once the great mass of people is subordinated to market forces by way of survival, the market is free to act on them in despotic ways.” Full article here:
thereclamation.co/free-markets-unfree-people
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#capitalism
#thursday
#socialism
20 days ago
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“Music represents the passion of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, they will become the wrong kind of person.” —Aristotle
#PhilSky
#music
#tuesday
#philosophy
22 days ago
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“I'll have more to say when I'm dead.” —Edwin Arlington Robinson
#PhilSky
#Monday
#philosophy
#poetry
23 days ago
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“Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell.” —William Shakespeare 🎃🎃
#PhilSky
#Halloween
#literature
26 days ago
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Q: “I'm afraid of dying.” A: “To live with the uncertainty of existence we must dispel the image of a hungry grim reaper hanging about our shadows with a gleaming sickle.” Full response:
thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-im-afraid-of-dying
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#Thursday
27 days ago
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“Never despair.” —Horace
#PhilSky
#poetry
#philosophy
#tuesday
30 days ago
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“Our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.” —Karl Marx
#PhilSky
#socialistsunday
about 1 month ago
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“The film is an artifact of western capitalism that evokes Ozymandias: ‘Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’” Read here:
thereclamation.co/25-years-of-requiem-for-a-dream
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#film
#saturday
about 1 month ago
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“A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.” —Walt Whitman
#PhilSky
#poetry
#nature
#dialectics
about 1 month ago
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“There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.” —Democritus
#philosophy
#Greece
#MondayMotivation
#PhilSky
about 1 month ago
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“The common characteristic of all perversions is that they have abandoned reproduction as their aim.” —Sigmund Freud
#philosophy
#psychology
#Friday
#PhilSky
about 1 month ago
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Q: What is postmodernism? A: “Postmodernist politics and culture relies on extensive reference to the past because of an inability to apprehend the future.” Read here:
thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-what-is-postmodernism
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#thursday
about 1 month ago
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“Confound those who have said our words before us.” —Aelius Donatus
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#Rome
#tuesday
about 1 month ago
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“The beginning is the most important part of any work.” —Plato
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#monday
#thanksgiving
about 1 month ago
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“The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman.” —William Shakespeare
#PhilSky
#literature
#friday
#philosophy
about 2 months ago
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“Pursuing ‘superintelligence’ will always be fantastical, akin to running for the horizon in order to touch the clouds.” Full article:
thereclamation.co/will-ai-raise-us-up-to-heaven-or-cast-us-into-hell
#philosophy
#AI
#technology
#thursday
#PhilSky
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Will AI Raise Us Up to Heaven—or Cast Us Into Hell?
Sentient technology and the future of the West
https://thereclamation.co/will-ai-raise-us-up-to-heaven-or-cast-us-into-hell
about 2 months ago
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“We see this Night when we look a human being in the eye. From his eye the night of the world hangs out toward us.” —GWF Hegel
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#socialistsunday
about 2 months ago
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“There is nothing worse than a cultural barbarian with pretensions.” —Hubert Selby Jr.
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#saturday
#requiem
about 2 months ago
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Q: How do I curb my online shopping? A: “It is a deafening fact that we exist in an economic system that appeals to the worst side of our nature and it makes us miserable.” Full reply:
thereclamation.co/ask-the-edit...
#PhilSky
#psychology
#shopping
#finance
#Wednesday
about 2 months ago
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“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” —Percy Bysshe Shelley
#philosophy
#wednesday
#poetry
#PhilSky
about 2 months ago
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“As Darwin discovered the natural laws of evolution, so Marx discovered the laws of human history” —Friedrich Engels
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#socialistsunday
about 2 months ago
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Prof. David Kitchener
about 2 months ago
Happy Socialist Sunday
#SocialistSunday
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“What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!” —Lord Byron
#poetry
#PhilSky
#Friday
2 months ago
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“What Seinfeld offers today is a dream-like return to the apparently simpler, more pleasant social unconscious of a bygone era.” Read the article:
thereclamation.co/psychoanalyzing-seinfeld
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#Seinfeld
#psychology
#Thursday
2 months ago
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“Here sit I, forming men In my own image.” —From Prometheus by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#PhilSKy
#philosophy
#poetry
#Tuesday
2 months ago
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“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.” —Oscar Wilde
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#socialistsunday
2 months ago
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“Time is the moving image of eternity.” —Plato
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#saturday
2 months ago
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Q: Why Was Charlie Kirk So Popular? A: “In western democracies, politics has literally become a bloodsport. Despite this, the range of issues being debated are actually very narrow.” Read in full:
thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-why-was-charlie-kirk-so-popular
#PhilSky
#politics
#philosophy
2 months ago
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“Too many people view socialism through the narrow paradigm of the Soviet system or western left wing politics and conclude that China has hopelessly deviated from Marxist thought.” Full article:
thereclamation.co/understanding-chinese-socialism
#PhilSky
#China
#socialism
#philosophy
#Wednesday
2 months ago
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“We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.” —Sigmund Freud
#PhilSky
#Monday
#philosophy
#quotes
2 months ago
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“It is a universal revolution and will have a universal range.” —Friedrich Engels
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#quotes
2 months ago
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Q: Is China For Real? A: “Given China’s successful track record deploying technology, it is likely that these weapons are already operational or will soon be in production.” Read the full answer here:
thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-is-china-for-real
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#China
3 months ago
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Even imperial decline has its silver linings. “His resoluteness under torture and general savoir-faire demonstrate an Overman who has mastered his drives, able to restrain or unleash them at will.” Article:
thereclamation.co/the-fetish-of-james-bond
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#tuesday
3 months ago
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“The gods love what is mysterious, and dislike what is evident.” —Upanishads
#monday
#philosophy
#PhilSky
3 months ago
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“The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.” —Karl Marx
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#friday
3 months ago
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Query this week: “I am losing my hair.” Read the response:
thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-i-am-losing-my-hair/
#PhilSky
#philosophy
#hair
3 months ago
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“Life is a business that does not cover the costs.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
#PhilSky
#quote
#philosophy
3 months ago
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“China suppressed the financial system that has ravaged the American Main Street, instead directing investments into the productive sectors of their economy.” Read here:
thereclamation.co/how-trumps-tariffs-cement-a-new-world-order/
#China
#Trump
#tariffs
#PhilSky
3 months ago
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