I really don’t like that meme. It’s been applied to too much by too many and might as well just be synonymous with “new and improved”. Sure, there’s plenty of transformative stuff going on under the designation, but also plenty of misdirection to cloak the old in the new. Kind of like, if you have [...]
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Liberty and security…”2.0″!
Posted in Policy, tagged decentralization, emergence, open, organization, Web on 29 May 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some very brief thoughts on stuff
Posted in Personal, tagged philosophy on 19 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
That’s been one of those creeping thoughts lately, the kind that nags you until you’re forced to find some answer that will sufficiently hush up your Unconscious long enough to let you get on with it. We’re not talking about an existential crisis here, nor some deep soul-searching psychoanalysis, but simply about knowing that “all [...]
Irony and exceptionalism
Posted in Politics, tagged exceptionalism, just war, law, realism, torture on 7 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, another month of silence on this blog… Anyway, I’ve got an hour before I need to run off to rugby practice, so let’s see what I can come up with. Ah, I know…how about the paradox of American exceptionalism. That should be an easy one. This morning, I came across some interesting thoughts by [...]
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