January 2011
4 posts
The Moral Repercussions of Killing the Internet
This blag post may be late to the party, but my mind’s been kind of dwelling on this issue for the past couple of days. So, for those of you who live in a cave, the government of Egypt has shut down the nation’s Internet. Sparing the irrelevant information of how they did it, I’m rather going to focus on the repercussions of enacting the kill switch, and what this means not only...
How Much Does Your Life Weigh
Ryan Bingham, Up in the Air
How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you’re carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life. You start with the little things. The shelves, the drawers, the knickknacks, [and] then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV—the backpack should be getting pretty...
Dresden
I’m not one to write a music “review” but ever since I discovered the UK-based band Dresden, I’ve been meaning to share my thoughts on this humble group and its terrific eponymous album. Not to be confused with The Dresden Dolls, Dresden would probably fall under the umbrella genre(s) of electronic and indie rock, though the songs in its album are hard to classify since...
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Noam Chomsky:
Twenty-years ago, Dwight Macdonald published a series of articles in Politics on the responsibility of peoples and, specifically, the responsibility of intellectuals. I read them as an undergraduate, in the years just after the war, and had occasion to read them again a few months ago. They seem to me to have lost none of their power or persuasiveness. Macdonald is concerned with...
