Payscale Study says college is a poor investment | Seer Press. But this cliché would otherwise be gradually disapproved by a recent study done by PayScale for Bloomberg Businessweek. In their study, there are a depreciating number of schools that produce graduates that would actually earn back the money that they spent for college. The [...]

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… I’ll take the time to leave this here. I’m far to the left, and could never see myself going past ‘unsavory’ (although I probably do that once every couple weeks as it is). I’m giving a speech about libertarianism at school tomorrow – ditching the anecdotal tripe that gets so many people in trouble [...]

“Just as the individual egoist puts further questions up to a point, but desists before reaching conclusions incompatible with his egoism, so also the group is prone to have a blind spot for the insights that reveal its well-being to be excessive or its usefulness at an end.” – Bernard Lonergan, Insight If that doesn’t [...]

BWAHAHAHAHA… I go to a public university in GA. The comments on the Augusta Chronicle’s page are, as always, worth the read. One of the commentrs sounds suspiciously like one of my professors from last semester (and the fact that he hints at the fact that he has his doctorate). Chapters 6 & 7 of [...]

Face to Faith: However, shamanism cannot be described as a religion or a faith. No faith is needed in a visionary experience; in these states, the individual receives direct personal experience of the divine, becoming unified with their own subconscious and with the rest of the universe. In a timeless moment you realise that God [...]

Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor: What has been lost, according to Jacoby, is a culture of intellectual effort. We are increasingly ignorant, but we do not know enough to be properly ashamed. If we are determined to get on in life, we believe it will not have anything to do with our ability to reference [...]

I’m writing a criticism of Jane Austin for school. Nothing special, nothing new. It’s in the “New Critical” style, which makes it somewhat boring and restricts my ability to say, “they’re flirting. duh.” That’s not the nerdy part. No, the nerdy part is that in my frustration to note something, I actually went looking for [...]

Philospher Zero: “Reality can’t lie. A thing either is, or it is not. And whatever it is, unless it is sentient and deceptive, cannot be hidden from observation. Reality does not bend, nor does it (or can it) use symbolic manipulation to deceive. Perceptions, however, can deceive. The nature of human perceptual frameworks and mechanisms [...]

Question Period: Noam Chomsky on being censored, CHRC censorship, Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick and libertarianism PJ: Pushing aside the Canadian Human Rights discussion for a moment, I was curious why you call yourself a “libertarian”? I call myself that, too. Except when I use it, I mean to say that I believe in private property [...]