Argue

Artwork: Imagination | Mehdinom

I listened to an amazing episode of Radio Lab the other day. It was about this device that is being tested on blind people to help them ‘see’ again. With their tongues.

Artwork: Death and Life | Gustav Klimt

Science has a knack for draining all of the beauty out of things. Or at least that seems to be the general consensus among people with the fuzziest of feelings.

Artwork: Sun | Edvard Munch

It’s not hard to find a half-baked YouTube video about emergence. They are out there. And sadly they are often much more interesting than any footage of actual experts discussing the matter.

Artwork: Vampier | Edvard Munch

There are a number of things I find very frustrating. I have issues. But one of the things I find most mind-numbingly blood-nosingly irritating is concepts like Cognitive Dissonance (hereafter CD.)

Artwork: A Philosopher Lecturing… | Joseph Wright of Derby

Socrates’ epic origin story began in Delphi where he was visiting the Oracle; a temple who’s priestesses were said to have supreme knowledge of both the past and future.

Artwork: A Theological Debate | Eduard Frankfort

The word debate is generally seen in a positive light nowadays. Especially on Facebook. People are more likely to hold it up as a shinning example of what we’re not doing than to critique it.

Artwork: Freedom of Speech | Norman Rockwell

White people shouldn’t say the N word. They can. I have said it before and I’m white. But it just kind of sets a bad tone. It’s rude. But there is no law saying that we can’t use the word.

Artwork: Das Gastmahl Nach Platon | Anselm Feuerbach

The vast majority of people who talk about Plato’s Cave allegory have no idea what it was actually meant to convey. In case you haven’t heard of it before here is how it’s first introduced:

Artwork: Jake Paul | Marieke

Some people take YouTube drama pretty seriously. It’s sort of like those celebrity gossip magazines that used to focus on who was cheating on who. I mean they’re still out there, they just don’t have as big an audience.