Phrenology, which was big in the early 1800’s, is defined as “the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental…
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Admittedly, I’ve inveighed against a number of superficial, second-rate and wrongheaded philosophical pieces in the New York Times [Philosopher’s] “Stone” series. So it’s only fair and fitting that when I…
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The fundamental question of our time is: Does a prototype exist somewhere in this world that can provide an adequate response to the human crisis? To my mind, the answer…
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Scraping Bottom at “The Failing New York Times”
by Martin LeFevre 2019/06/13Mainstream media hacks are spewing ever-increasing twaddle. It’s not enough that the MSM was instrumental in producing President Frankenstein by hewing to the potholed roads of the status quo, and…
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Humanity’s Extinction Is Not an Option (Part One)
by Martin LeFevre 2018/12/19Once again the New York Times has outdone itself in philosophical foolishness with its weekly op-ed, “The [Philosopher’s] Stone.” Op-eds are often narrow and shallow, but this piece, “Would Human…
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I’ve been hearing a similar refrain from a variety of people in the West. I feel it’s wishful thinking, but so many people believe it that one can’t help doubting…
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Fifty years ago Will Durant, wrote, “We humans are the same trousered apes at 2000 miles an hour as when we had legs.” Given the consensus at present that the…
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Over the last 30 years, philosophers of science, pundits and New Age devotees have blurred and muddied the differences between humans and nature. The gambit has been to eliminate the…