Paulosophical Vimplications

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• THE FORTHCOMING FALL OF KABUL

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 13, 2021 • ( 1 )

  When the Americans overthrew the Taliban in 2001 the latter were given the same advice that was given to the Vietcong when the Americans sent their ‘advisors’ into Saigon in the early ’60’s. Stay militarily relevant and wait. Fifteen years… Read More ›

• TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION DAY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 12, 2021 • ( 6 )

  A couple of years ago, here at the University of Lethbridge, we went from a thirteen week semester to twelve, and so from 32.5 hours of instruction per course to 30. Much of what counts as instruction at the primary… Read More ›

• IN PRAISE OF COLONIALISM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2021 • ( 1 )

  There’s a German film called Run Lola Run, which explores the radically different ways things would have gone if some seemingly inconsequential happenstance had been nigh-indiscernibly different. And there’s an American Christmas classic called It’s a Wonderful Life, in which… Read More ›

• Guest Post by Pamela Lindsay: A Crash Course in Rhetoric.

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 20, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Apropos Paul’s post Of Decolonisation and Marranos , re: the perlocutionary force of language. The extent to which language controls thought is a hotly debated topic. John McWhorter, for one, argues language doesn’t control thought as much as some believe. … Read More ›

• THE PERSONAL ECONOMICS OF TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 19, 2021 • ( 1 )

  The notions of truth and reconciliation – from post-Apartheid South Africa to post-genocide Rwanda to post-residential schools here in Canada – have always been an oxymoron. The idea is that first we elicit a confession of wrongdoing. Next the victim… Read More ›

• CULTURAL GENOCIDE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 18, 2021 • ( 4 )

  Culture is the language you speak, the gods you worship, the food you eat, the behaviours that make you cringe, the sounds your ears recognise as pleasant and discordant. It’s where you shit, and what you do with your shit… Read More ›

• GENOCIDE 101

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 18, 2021 • ( 1 )

  (Note: This is the first in a series of two entries. The second will be on the meaning, if any, of cultural genocide.) Genocide is not a success term. If it were there wouldn’t be any victims left to complain… Read More ›

• BREAKING NEWS IN CANADA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 15, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Some species eat their own young. So do some political parties. The Republicans in the U.S., and the Greens in Canada, are both currently engaged in devouring themselves. It’s too early to predict what will be left of the former…. Read More ›

• OF DECOLONISATION AND MARRANOS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 13, 2021 • ( 2 )

  Here’s are three quick lessons, in political philosophy, in the philosophy of mind, and in the philosophy of language respectively. 1) Political behaviour is behaviour. 2) He who controls thought controls behaviour. And 3) he who controls language controls thought. … Read More ›

• FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE SOCIALISTS (2017/03/17)

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 13, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Martin Niemoller (1892-1984) spoke these words in 1946. In an interview many years later he confessed with regret that he hadn’t thought to write it down. So it’s not surprising that versions of it have since proliferated. Nevertheless, as good… Read More ›

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