Archive for the 'readings' Category

patriotism

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

I’ve waited for a long time for the itemized list of the suburbanite patriot, and now I found it.
I read a nice piece on Jay Leno’s patriotism, which reproduces that list.
I’ll touch each one of those items below (read that list first, I won’t copy it here):

A. If you have electricity and running water, you […]

socialism (humanism)

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

My preferred definition of socialism/humanism sounds like this: it is recognized the fact that any human being is immersed in a society of human beings and that the society is part of, and completes, the human being’s definition, it is also recognized that any human society is immersed in nature and that the nature is […]

multilingualism in EU

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

First of all, kudos to Mr. Orban for the way in which he gets busy with the multilingualism: you can add your comment and you can also give a more detailed answer on this E.C. survey.
Briefly, what I want to say here is that it would be ideal for any European to know at least […]

multilingvism in EU

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Mai întâi, lăudabilă forma în care dl. Orban se ocupă de multilingualism: poţi s’adaugi şi comentariu’ tău, ba poţi să dai şi un răspuns mai detaliat pe situl E.C..
Deşi am răspuns în ambele locuri, vreau să scriu şi aici despre asta, pt. că subiectul mi se pare important pt. toţi europenii.
Pe scurt, ar fi ideal […]

Persians on debtors

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Herodotus was writing, in the Book I of his Histories, about the Persians:
There are many reasons for their horror of debt, but the chief is their conviction that a man who owes money is bound also to tell lies.
(translation by Aubrey de Sélincourt).
They were right: conditioning the individuals through debt is much more […]

from Pala

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Where people really so silly? Mary Sarojini asked, as the audience laughed.
Really and truly, Will assured her.
- Island, Aldous Huxley.
What makes it impossible for us to access Pala?
We are in numbers well beyond the necessary to produce the resources we need to live. This forces the new generations to invent necessities, laws and institutions, […]

culturi la noi

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

Găsesc în Altermedia un proiect pe nume “Creaţionism ştiinţific”, care’ar fi “disciplină ştiinţifică ce studiază crearea Universului din perspectivă biblică”. Altfel, Altermedia merită un oarece interes, pare un efort autentic.
Că ştiinţa’i plină de discipline, aşa’i, da’ că perspectiva biblică ar fi (fost, vreodată) una din ele, ba: ştiinţa se clădeşte pe model şi […]

cultura la noi

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

Găsesc azi, în ziarul Adevărul, online, “Soacră-mea e o scorpie”, se plânge Jennifer Lopez, la capitolul “CULTURA”.
Poate’aşa o s’ajungă la adevăr, prin Google, şi românii de prin cele străinătăţuri. Iar pt. cei d’acas’, drept: secetă mare.
Afli reţeta: zici, “cunoscuta actriţă, de teatru şi de film..”, expresia “pe alocuri..” să se prindă burghezucu’ că’i limbaj înalt, […]