The abortion debate is even more cynical than most naive moralistic rhetoric and a relatively modern phenomena since women have had access to different kinds of birth control including abortion for millenia. Women have been denied their reproductive rights so that they can be enslaved by elites–in European history the Inquisition and it’s genocide of the witches and the destruction of medical knowledge was key.
I fully empathize with many people’s strong emotions about life but they are sadly being manipulated in this case. I truly hope my words are not taken as insensitive trolling and am happy to engage in more detailed discussion about this painful ethical dilemma.
Fun read by a creative writing professor about his relationship to numbers. I think the recent institutional separation of arts and sciences causes us to forget the historical relationship between the two. The original seven liberal arts consisted of three studies of language and ideas, the trivium — grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic — while the other four focused on either theoretical or applied math in the forms of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. It never was about either developing language or math skills. Each one helps you understand the other. Intensive study of grammar and poetics, at some point, makes you feel like you’re studying algebra:
A Humanist Apologizes to Numbers – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Got the new Jacobin magazine and the cover is fucking brilliant especially when you realize it uses the hieroglyphic IKEAn language to express it’s timely message.
Assembly is indeed required ASAP. Go to http://jacobinmag.com and subscribe.
Vive la révolution!
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