July 2011
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“Our intellect assumes, instinctively, that the world is motionless: things are...”
– Leszek Kolakowski, Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? We know, from philosophy and physics and even rudimentary introspection, that the world as we perceive it is a mental construction, a collection of impressions and ideas so divorced from the structure of reality as to constitute a...
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Cave life.
Today I sat down to revamp some old lyrics. I originally started writing this song after reading the dialogue in Book VII of The Republic written by Plato known as “The Allegory of the Cave.” After struggling to come up with anything worth while or non-cliche, I scrapped the whole idea, gave up, and wrote about something else. I had always considered those lyrics temporary until I...
