Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Police #1 of 2
Drift with me back to the early days of 1984. You couldn’t get away from Orwellian puff pieces, Reagan’s re-election campaign was in full swing and The Police Synchronicity tour was en fuego. Synchronicity had spent much of 1983 trading the #1 spot with Thriller and did not realize they were both about to lose […]
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The Police #2 of 2
It had been 23 years since the Great Injustice. Chris had selected girlfriend and sister over his boys and Brad and I had missed out on an experience that would have been the highlight of our High School experience to date (we were still ‘pure’). Chris had won the front row for the Police Synchronicity […]
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love quotes
It’s just about cupid day, and so the obligatory articles on modern romance, the joy of solitude and how marriage makes dudes live longer have already begun to surface. Despite my cynicism, The Guardian had four perspectives on modern love with a couple of nuggets spread across them. The best of them from the Modern […]
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If you want to lose a fight…
TV and movies are full of great lines, but many of the best are placed as either openers (“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.”) or to punctuate a defining character moment (“So I made him an offer he couldn’t refuse”) or to signal rising tension (“We’re going to […]
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It says “I am a maker. I make stuff”.
Great art night tonight. I have refrained from introducing The Fellas to the medium of spray paint. It lends itself to the lazy application of color and I think I had some fantasy of researching “tagging” and “graffiti art” before we cracked open the aerosols. Krylon has presented itself anonymously from time to time – […]
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Thank you, Daniel
I watched “Phantom Thread”, Daniel-Day Lewis’ final outing with somewhat low overall expectations. DDL is a master of his craft and I thought I would be watching it in much the way I might watch a first clarinet in a symphony I don’t particularly care for — I would be mesmerized by the artistry on […]
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Do the Right Thing
My heart is lifted by the coverage of the Louvre’s display of Nazi-seized paintings in an attempt to return them to their rightful owners. Some times the simplest “right” thing to do is the most wonderful.
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The Closing of the American Mind
My sophomore year philosophy class took a sharp turn and redefined itself around the newly released “Closing of the American Mind” by Allan Bloom. At its simplest, “Closing” says that modern American universities have become sterilized to the point where they only push students toward pretty standard measures of life success, and do little to […]
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Unstable Immigration Perspective
Like most of my opinions and perspectives, I picked the name “only partially reasoned” for this site for a reason. My framework for immigration is fluid. Probably more so than most of my thinly considered insights. I decided to pair tonight’s State of the Union and its teasing of its more-marketing-to-the-base-than-impact immigration policy with watching […]
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The Night Watch “Live”
The Night Watch was a staple of my artistic diet for the three months I lived in Amsterdam working on “Big Brother” with Endemol. I just came across this 2013 live action version of this Dutch masterpiece as part of a marketing campaign to celebrate the renovation of the Rijksmuseum. Gold. LINK
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