The bigotry we are blind to
(Cross posted from On Line Opinion)
Australians are very mindful of prejudice and discrimination in our community, and rightly so. Yet, many prejudices are so fashionable and pervasive that they go unnoticed.
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Casablanca as Plato’s Symposium (Srsly!)
ChatGPT: Explain greek ideas of love, in particular the way eros is the spur to higher forms of love
The film Casablanca is Plato's Symposium. The goodies must conspire in pursuing the good
Without knowing the future, or whether they can trust each other, or themselves … pic.twitter.com/2QWSF2fof5
The Fertility Rate: the Best Dam(n) Wellbeing Index Going Around?
Valiant attempts have been made to measure happiness and wellbeing. People much smarter than me have developed fancy indices, and people even smarter than that, such as our own Nicholas Gruen, has called bullshit on many of them.
What I propose is something far simpler: make the fertility rate the proxy for a nation’s wellbeing.
What kind of Character is Sam Bankman-Fried
A friend sent me this article documenting Sam Bankman-Fried’s now well known text exchange with Vox journalist Kelsey Piper. I couldn’t help but think of Alasdair MacIntyre’s characters. As MacIntyre put it in After Virtue: