For my part, I am convinced that it would be as easy to change a blonde into a brunette as a fool into a man of genius.
— Rousseau
In other Britney news, nice to see the Daily Mail targetting her for a bit of health-as-discipline propaganda.
Given this blog’s title, it seems appropriate to quote Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View:
But in this judging of laziness, one can often do much wrong to a human being. For nature has also wisely placed the aversion to continuous work in many a subject, an instinct that is beneficial both to the subject and to others … for, if laziness did not intervene, indefatigable malice would comit far more ill in the world than it does now.
It’s pleasing to see that, 5 years after the event, people are still writing variations on “Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics.” Today’s contestant is Ron Hassner who, apart from gaining bonus points for the always-popular “more in sorrow than anger” posture, manages to flawlessly pull off one of the more advanced variants, “Why 9/11 Means That We Must Put Politics Aside and Support My Politics.”
Except, in a baffling and depressing turn of events, I do appear to have lost my happy hardcore CDs. I was writing a post, and I thought I should upload a particular track to illustrate it. So, I start looking through my CDs, and there’s no DJ Sy, no Hixxy, no Unknown And The Evolution. I can’t really explain it. Did I leave them in England? Did I really prepare to move a couple of thousand miles by discarding these CDs, pausing only to rip a copy of Raver’s Choice No. 7? Or perhaps they were stolen? Did the people who pinched my laptop also rifle through my CDs looking for mid-90s dance music from the north of England? Neither explanation is very satisfying.
Man is what he is not, and is not what he is.
— Sartre
And, of course, infinite thought’s recent extraordinary idea is not just TV gold, but also an exemplary humanism-beyond-humanism.
Paris Hilton has reached the attention of the Indian film industry. She has been invited to play Nobel Peace prize recipient Mother Theresa in a film partly written by Pope John Paul II. The film will include the talents of other notables of her stature such as Pandit Ravi Shankar. Pope Benedict XVI is expected to give his blessing to this film.
Actually, I’d already heard about this. Astonishingly, I’d managed to forget all about it.
Meanwhile, Ian Penman channels Julie Burchill , and is of course entirely right.