“ The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it
— Bertrand Russel (via saneman8)
— Bertrand Russel (via saneman8)
“Before you grab for that box of tranquilizers, let’s meet a group of young men who delight in taking their bath on the public highway”
Noël Coward’s “Let’s do it” (by SannettaTrampolini)
Hugely fascinating debate between two giants of the past century - linguist & political philosopher Noam Chomsky and french philosopher Michael Foucault - on human nature, and power. Full transcript here: http://www.chomsky.info/debates/1971xxxx.htm
“a fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effect of coercive institutions, then, of course, it will follow that a decent society should maximise the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realised.”
Now a federated, decentralised system of free associations, incorporating economic as well as other social institutions, would be what I refer to as anarcho-syndicalism; and it seems to me that this is the appropriate form of social organisation for an advanced technological society, in which human beings do not have to be forced into the position of tools, of cogs in the machine.
