“To remain the same in function, animals must change their form.” – Stephen Jay Gould, 1979 Gould wrote the quote above a couple times in different articles. Ryan likes it because he thinks it can apply to systems in general. Thus, to remain the same in function, systems should change Read more…
In this Short the Dawdlers play a game. Everyone loses. The end.
Times change and the recent past can sometimes become obsolete as the gaze of the mainstream world focuses on its new moment. But it wasn’t long ago when Richard Dawkins was calling for “militant atheism” and Dubya Bush stood on an aircraft carrier in front of a banner that read Read more…
Everything is unique, yet almost everything is ignored. Herein may lie the crux of history as we fashion it for our purposes. Repeatability is a most productive bias.
Life may be meaningless, but is it hopeless? This week the Dawdlers do a little Short on depression. Don’t?…enjoy this?
This week the Dawdler’s take a step back from the previous weeks and dig down behind to examine an example of a general conceptual framework for thinking about systems, identity, and conflict – evolution, memes, and perspectivism; while they examine Anatol Rapoport’s 1974 book Conflict in Man-Made Environment.
E31: The Helm of the Mutineers – On Sociopolitical Revolutions There’s a poem by Portia Nelson called “There’s a hole in my sidewalk”. In it, she keeps going down the street, falls in the hole in the sidewalk, and struggles to get out. The poem is about repeating patterns that Read more…
Who’s interested in current events!? This week, the Dawdlers talk about the Slavoj Zizek/Jordan B. Peterson “debate”: Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism. …and there’s not much else to say! So, declaw your lobsters and have a listen!
Do you laugh in the face of the abyss? Or do you sob uncontrollably? Either way, it doesn’t matter you tiny speck of nothing! In this Short, the Dawdlers use Thomas Nagel’s 1971 paper “The Absurd” as a guide for a discussion of the meaning of life (or something like Read more…
One way or many ways or any ways… Is there a recipe to live The Good Life?