Information As Essence, Essentially As Information
Net neutrality is not a technical issue. It’s not a battle between telecom titans and online content providers. What’s at stake in net neutrality is not the future of social networking or the legal means to obtain multimedia. Net neutrality is an issue of modern selfhood and it’s shifting definition.
My viewpoint during my teenage years and early twenties was wrapped up quite nicely over a century before I was born. The words belong to Anatole France. “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
School snuck [...]
What Is Blue, But Not What Blue Is
“The feelings which make a man call an object sublime are not sublime feelings, but feelings of veneration. If ‘this is sublime,’ is to be reduced at all to a statement about the speaker’s feelings, the proper translation would be ‘I have humble feelings.” (Lewis, 1943).
It is my [...]
The following is a work of satire and should be read as such. If you think that I am way off base you should check out this actual IPS presentation concerning the uniform policy. Pay attention to the slides depicting appropriate and inappropriate modes of dress.
-Tony
Dear parents of IPS students,
It’s finally here! We don’t need [...]
Politics is a prime topic for humorists. Political humor is relevant and easy to relate to, since politics affect everyone. Tina Fey, former Saturday Night Live cast member and writer, recently began satirizing the public appearances of republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Her portrayals of Palin have drawn big ratings for NBC, and cries [...]
Deaf Nick
It’s a quarter past ten on a Friday night. I find myself in the same place I was last Friday at this time, the same place I’ll probably be next Friday. There’s a lingering heat from the tall steel pizza ovens that hangs dead in the air. There’s not much in the way of [...]
The Idea Of Money
To understand the current chaos of the world money market, the very nature of money itself must be taken into account. Money is, first and foremost, an idea. Physical paper money is only paper, but it carries the weight of an idea that it is backed by a sound and reliable government [...]