Carlo Lancellotti
@_CLancellotti
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Professor of Mathematics. My thoughts may not be worth much, but you can have them for free. Side activity: https://t.co/JrkUCFSPYQ
New Jersey, USA
Joined May 2017
Local politicians are totally committed to "equality" in education, I am sure, it just happens to be "low-quality e-quality". "In 2024, Baltimore City Schools operated on a $1.7 billion budget - yet only 10% of students tested proficient in math.".
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With all due respect, if your primary cultural identifier is being on the right or on the left, there is something missing.
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Incredibly, there are indications Trump thinks he has a shot at the Nobel peace prize.
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RT @Chris_arnade: @_CLancellotti correct. Modern progressives are a fundamentally incoherent combination of a libertarian understanding of….
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An obvious difference between young people in the US who want to be "socialist" and real 19th century European socialists is that the latter were well aware that socialism presupposes a society. Our youngsters do not even understand the question, let alone how to answer it.
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Religiosity has to do with the human need for meaning, and its surrogates must provide meaning, which "spiritual practices" do not. Politics does, for example. The interesting correlation to study is secularization-politicization.
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I hate the word "spirituality" because it clearly suggests unreality, something artificially tacked on real life for the purpose of psychological solace.
We gave folks a list of often mentioned spiritual practices like yoga, meditation, crystals, psychics, etc. And asked them how many they engaged in the prior 30 days. There's not a single instance where non-religious people were statistically more active than religious folks
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The Intel story exposes the ideological nature of "marketism." If a country needs to subsidize a certain domestic industry for strategic reasons, is getting a return on investment "socialism"?.
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The totalitarian dystopia in which governments (China, likely) will try and produce people with artificial wombs to prevent demographic collapse is going to be bad. Turning people into factory products is arguably more cruel than killing them after they experienced love.
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Last month I was just strolling around St. Mary Major and literally walked on this in a dark corner:
My latest in Our Sunday Visitor.
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What shapes voters' opinions in Western Pennsylvania, the works of Pat Buchanan or half a century of de-industrialization and financialization of the economy?.
Because one can't account for Tr*mpism from within the subfield of right-wing intellectual history (a right-winger had a bad idea in the '90s and here we are?). MAGA comes from manifest failures of the entire political system in the 21st century.
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Grad students too. I remember attending a seminar by Richard Rorty at UVA where he openly laughed at a youngster who premised his question by stating that he had joined the philosophy graduate program because he wanted to pursue the truth.
A few things strike me about this. One is that it created an ultimately unsustainable gap between esoteric and exoteric. Undergraduate students mostly continued take humanities classes on humanist grounds, while faculty and TAs viewed such assumptions with contempt./2.
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In this connection it is important to note that for this reason pagan societies had little incentive to reduce suffering. Why develop, say, an anti-polio vaccine if you can throw the defective kids off the Tarpeian rock?.
The unspoken assumption by all the do-gooders who want to reduce suffering by eliminating the sufferers is that suffering is meaningless.
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The unspoken assumption by all the do-gooders who want to reduce suffering by eliminating the sufferers is that suffering is meaningless.
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I would take the "an embryo is not a person" crowd more seriously if their logic had not inexorably progressed (as it was bound to happen) to the stage of legalizing the most gruesome late-term abortions.
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Sometimes the German mind is hard to understand.
Germany switching off its perfectly fine nuclear power plants, but keeping coal power plants instead to fight climate change in one picture. Enjoy your air quality.
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Among the various fallacies of "naturalism" there is the belief that the development of advanced science and technology is a natural phenomenon (akin, say, to biological evolution) and not a highly "cultural" one, dependent on human motivations, metaphysical beliefs and so on.
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Trump not having been able to extract one single concession from Putin in eight months is bizarre, considering how much he seems to care about his image as a deal maker.
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This has been pointed out again and again, but people never learn, and I think the reason is because unmasking other people's false consciousness, while exempting ourselves, is so appealing. What Voegelin called the "gnostic" aspect of Marxism.
@_CLancellotti The irony is almost structural: every time the left hauls Marx back into the spotlight, capitalism swallows him whole. ’68 tore down traditions and cleared the cultural space neoliberalism needed. China wrapped markets in Marxist banners and built the world’s largest factory.
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