It's easy to be a free market capitalist if you believe in a just God.

I know why our generation is fucked up and confused:

We've been told BY OUR PARENTS to question authority.

It's like a messed-up political koan........

I've been thinking a lot about the way in which desires very quickly become needs....no, not THOSE kinds of desires - I'm thinking specifically about the desire for MATERIAL OBJECTS, or consumer products, as they are sometimes called. Things like computers, cell phones, clothes, certain kinds of food, and those sundry articles that we use to forge ( Read more... )

So...I'm researching for a paper on the American Consumer History of Dolls. Don't ask me to explain more - I'm still trying to figure it out myself. All I know is that it's gonna be fuckin interesting. I didn't realize there were so many dimensions to the subject until I started trying to tackle it and find sources for this odd little paper. I ( Read more... )

Our sense of touch is, for some reason, the only sense that generates a feeling of real subjectivity. When we touch something (or someone), we become immediately aware of the body part that is doing to touching, and therefore of the Self....this is different from, say, seeing or hearing. When we see a beautiful sunset or a dead animal, we do not ( Read more... )

So...I was thinking, for reasons that don't need explaining at this juncture, about the fact that BU does not have a rape crisis center and what a FUCKING TRAVESTY that is. And I was thinking about the fact that BU's solution to this glaring problem is to hand whistles out to all the freshman girls (as we all know, rapists can not stand the sound ( Read more... )

There is but a very fine line between bullshit and innovation. SOmetimes you should give yourself more credit.

So....I just got off the phone with a dear friend after a rather heady discussion about epistemology - the question is: what is the role of reason? Is it the best way to arrive at truth? Is it the only way? What is the role of poetry and metaphor (and this category includes religion)? What kind of insight can it provide? Any at all? These are ( Read more... )

So...I just discovered that my university has a SNOW DAY tomorrow...I didn't even think that was possible in Boston. I haven't been this excited about snow since high school, when a thick sheeting of ice meant I DIDN'T have haul my ass out of bed at 6:30 am ( Read more... )

the inundation of images of the sexualized female body in our culture has a tendency to make more women than men bisexual. Discuss.