These days life seems crazier the more you think about it. I am not sure that any other time has been different from our time on this point. However, there is undeniably more information floating around than ever. This must spin the wheels of collective thought fast, which in turn, no doubt, spins our own wheels of thought faster. What, then, is worth our time in suspended thought, away from the wheels that keep our minds in motion? This may be the ultimate question of our time. For instance, is it worth it to consider how flight has altered human perception of our place in the cosmos? I don't know. But the philosophers of our time need to make choices, is we are ever to be lifted with the wings of our better selves.
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my philosophical boy,
re: the plethora of media and such, you could check out negroponte's being digital or some baudrillard's theories. (look at me...a grad student for a week and I think I know everything.) anyway, fyi.
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Did read being digital. It was interesting.
Baudrillard I have not read and would consider a title if recommendations were made. (hint hint)
But I am slowly wading through Hegal, which is keeping me plenty busy.
I think the complexity of Hegal provides for a framework to deal with the complexities of the time we live in (from what I can tell at this point in the Phenomenology). I will check out Epictitus (sp?). A classmate in grad school swore by him and his stoicism. His stoicism sort of makes me shutter. I am afterall, a Swede, and we have no problem commiting to stoicism, to a fault.
WK: too bad you aren't out here this weekend for our ride. Maybe if you get out this way some time we'll plan a ride.
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