Wilfred Owen, 'Dulce et Decorum est.' That's it for that poem but he wrote more.
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Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
I say this as someone who read Russell's chapter on Nietzsche and avoided reading his work, then read it.
Critiques should be accompanied with salt.
Books with psi by forgotten writers that are interesting (to me): Stapleton's 'Odd John' and May's 'Intervention'.
There's only one way this could work and how it's drawn has very little to do with it.
The mirror is read by people who think they run the country.
The guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country.
The times is read by the people who actually run the country.
The mail is read by the wives of the people that run the country.
The morning star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country.
And the telegraph is read by people who think it already is.
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd...
The correspondence between the hexagrams and the binary numbers nothing more than a necessary consequence of the representation chosen: the number of states of a string of 6 characters in a system of 2 symbols.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Not much latitude there.
If a social media presence (or disclosure of a social media identity) is a condition of employment at some particular (or peculiar) firm, then I think the only recourse is that I should prefer to be a scrivener and that I should prefer not to.
For the sake of an unfamiliar reader, in the problem, we have a man standing by the buffers and an out of control trolley car. We're asked to choose between pulling a lever, which will divert the car to the buffers, thus killing the man but saving the people on board the car, or not pulling the lever, which results in the deaths of the trolley passengers but allows the man to live.
Choice one:
The out of control car is 'not your fault' but deliberately choosing to kill the man would be. You couldn't live with yourself knowing you'd been the cause of his death. You opt not to pull the lever.
Choice two:
That's crazy. None of this is your fault but it's your 'responsibility' to choose now. It's a simple utilitarian calculus - more lives = better. You pull the lever.
My problem with all this is that either response (and people split on the response) is nothing more than a reflection of the unconscious biases of the respondent. This is revealed when we discover that by changing the framing slightly - e.g. asking the question in another language (a different part of the brain is engaged = more utilitarians) or making the killing of the innocent man a direct act (you push him off an overpass = more 'not my faults') - changes the balance of responses in statistically significant ways.
The right answer, of course, is to toss a coin and do what it tells you.
I convinced the rest of the participants that choosing was in fact immoral and the only fair way to decide who lived and died was a lottery.
The explanation that Alice the loose woman (really! old material I guess) was getting a new liver because she was lucky was not a well received.
Willful blindness is what it is.