Month: January 2013

• Thrasymachus vs Socrates or: How I learned to stop worrying and love oppression!

  One of the most important tenets of a rational outlook is to change one’s model of the world in light of new evidence, or persistent failure. I was watching the Oscar nominated flick, Zero Dark Thirty last night and was appalled by the implicit racism towards brown folks in general, and “Paks” in particular, as the […]

  rrameez

  January 20, 2013

  Modeling, Social Science

  israel, Might is right, Pakistan, palestine, Socrates, Thrasymachus, US, Vietnam, Zero Dark Thirty

• Profits over people: Aaron Swartz and the dominant model of our world

  

  For those who did not know, Aaron Swartz committed suicide on the 11th of January, 2013. He was being prosecuted by the state attorney for having ‘stolen’ thousands of documents from the online academic library JSTOR, and faced up to 35 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines. He did this at MIT, […]

  rrameez

  January 15, 2013

  Modeling

  Aaron Swartz, Copyleft, Intellectual Property Rights, Profits over people

• Complexity Science, Marx and Religion

  One of the tenets of a religious life is the acknowledgement of the fact that we are not in control; we surrender to the belief that there are bigger forces at work. This is construed by some people to be defeatist. It could be argued that this line of thinking is not only not defeatist […]

  rrameez

  January 6, 2013

  Modeling

  butterfly effect, Complex Systems, Marx, nonotheism, opium of the masses, religion, spiritualism