“What am I doing here in this endless winter?” —Franz Kafka #literature #philosophy #tuesday #PhilSky

“This part of the country seems to have all hell for a basement.” —Rudyard Kipling, in Alberta. #Monday #literature #PhilSky #philosophy

“All the world's a stage.” —William Shakespeare #literature #PhilSky #friday #politics

“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

“The way up is the way down.” —Heraclitus #PhilSky #philosophy #thursday

“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

“Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.” —Thomas More #philosophy #utopia #monday #PhilSky

“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

“The philosopher’s treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.” —Wittgenstein #PhilSky #wednesday #philosophy

“Any day stands equal to the rest.” —Heraclitus #PhilSky #philosophy #Greece #monday

“Every legal constitution is the product of a revolution.” —Rosa Luxemburg #PhilSky #philosophy #socialistsunday

“The great man is the one who does not lose his child's heart.” —Mencius #PhilSky #philosophy #friday

“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

“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

“I'll have more to say when I'm dead.” —Edwin Arlington Robinson #PhilSky #Monday #philosophy #poetry

“Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell.” —William Shakespeare 🎃🎃 #PhilSky #Halloween #literature

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

“Never despair.” —Horace #PhilSky #poetry #philosophy #tuesday

“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

“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

“A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.” —Walt Whitman #PhilSky #poetry #nature #dialectics

“There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.” —Democritus #philosophy #Greece #MondayMotivation #PhilSky

“The common characteristic of all perversions is that they have abandoned reproduction as their aim.” —Sigmund Freud #philosophy #psychology #Friday #PhilSky

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

“Confound those who have said our words before us.” —Aelius Donatus #PhilSky #philosophy #Rome #tuesday

“The beginning is the most important part of any work.” —Plato #PhilSky #philosophy #monday #thanksgiving

“The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman.” —William Shakespeare #PhilSky #literature #friday #philosophy

“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

“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

“There is nothing worse than a cultural barbarian with pretensions.” —Hubert Selby Jr. #PhilSky #philosophy #saturday #requiem

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

“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” —Percy Bysshe Shelley #philosophy #wednesday #poetry #PhilSky

“As Darwin discovered the natural laws of evolution, so Marx discovered the laws of human history” —Friedrich Engels #PhilSky #philosophy #socialistsunday

Happy Socialist Sunday #SocialistSunday

“What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!” —Lord Byron #poetry #PhilSky #Friday

“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

“Here sit I, forming men In my own image.” —From Prometheus by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #PhilSKy #philosophy #poetry #Tuesday

“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.” —Oscar Wilde #PhilSky #philosophy #socialistsunday

“Time is the moving image of eternity.” —Plato #PhilSky #philosophy #saturday

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

“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

“We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.” —Sigmund Freud #PhilSky #Monday #philosophy #quotes

“It is a universal revolution and will have a universal range.” —Friedrich Engels #PhilSky #philosophy #quotes

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

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

“The gods love what is mysterious, and dislike what is evident.” —Upanishads #monday #philosophy #PhilSky

“The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.” —Karl Marx #PhilSky #philosophy #friday

Query this week: “I am losing my hair.” Read the response: thereclamation.co/ask-the-editor-i-am-losing-my-hair/ #PhilSky #philosophy #hair

“Life is a business that does not cover the costs.” —Arthur Schopenhauer #PhilSky #quote #philosophy

“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