Meta tags:
Headings (most frequently used words):
2016, october, overweening, generalist, tuesday, monday, september, blog, 1895, 1973, robert, william, edward, wilson, chomsky, 1600, alan, watts, pound, 2007, the, for, and, on, few, of, in, november, 31, 25, sunday, 16, thursday, 19, wednesday, 14, followers, my, list, archive, about, me, montaigne, 1533, 1592, alfred, korzybski, 1879, 1950_, martha, nussbaum, erik, davis, george, lakoff, max, horkheimer, wilhelm, reich, 1897, 1957, walter, benjamin, 1892, 1940, jonah, lehrer, niels, bohr, 1885, 1962, terence, mckenna, 1946, 2000, peter, berger, sapolsky, burroughs, 1914, 1997, marshall, mcluhan, 1911, 1980, friedrich, nietzsche, 1844, 1900, voltaire, 1694, 1778, eqbal, ahmad, 1933, 34, 1999, nassim, nicholas, taleb, noam, giordano, bruno, 1548, cornell, west, ray, kurzweil, ada, lovelace, 1815, 1852, james, 1842, 1910, thomas, kuhn, 1922, 1996, buckminster, bucky, fuller, 1983, natalie, angier, umberto, eco, kenneth, rexroth, 1905, 1982, 1915, ford, joyce, quinn, anton, 1932, camille, fierce, paglia, barbara, ehrenreich, orhan, pamuk, aldous, huxley, 1894, 1963, antonio, damasio, giambattista, vico, 1668, 1744, richard, rorty, 1931, said, 1935, 2003, path, thought, labels, sir, isaiah, berlin, leonardo, da, vinci, athanasius, kircher, 1680, ezra, douglas, rushkoff, late, medieval, early, renaissance, economics, promiscuous, neurotheologist, vol, or, ish, many, varieties, codes, deceptive, behaviors, history, bob, dylan, wins, nobel, prize, lit, our, neurogenetic, archives, notes, decoding, by, chris, knight, surveillance, unistat, pre, snowden, file, 23a,
Text of the page (most frequently used words):
the (618), and (409), that (156), was (130), this (105), for (93), his (81), about (81), but (78), with (71), you (69), who (68), from (64), #chomsky (60), one (53), have (49), what (48), had (46), all (46), not (45), book (44), has (43), are (40), more (40), how (40), know (39), were (38), pound (37), they (37), john (35), some (35), like (34), read (34), can (34), dylan (33), there (33), which (33), out (32), ago (32), now (31), him (30), get (30), time (29), our (29), books (28), watts (28), years (28), because (28), work (28), when (28), world (27), their (27), people (26), science (26), robert (26), been (26), only (25), very (25), thought (24), right (24), see (24), ideas (23), new (23), david (23), idea (23), social (22), then (22), think (21), knight (21), raw (21), share (21), much (21), many (21), being (21), first (20), way (20), economics (20), seems (20), language (19), michael (19), most (19), too (19), even (19), wilson (18), don (18), problem (18), well (18), history (17), william (17), rushkoff (17), into (17), intellectuals (16), culture (16), reading (16), linguistics (16), life (16), code (16), those (16), just (16), things (16), intellectual (15), thomas (15), knowledge (15), great (15), george (15), douglas (15), cognitive (15), here (15), long (15), may (14), drugs (14), paul (14), money (14), could (14), experience (14), never (14), them (14), seem (14), moment (14), james (13), music (13), noam (13), human (13), lakoff (13), sense (13), said (13), say (13), found (13), probably (13), few (13), media (12), politics (12), joyce (12), guitar (12), alan (12), century (12), made (12), also (12), really (12), might (12), did (12), own (12), must (12), man (11), where (11), leary (11), she (11), anton (11), year (11), information (11), daniel (11), haytham (11), generalist (11), than (11), why (11), before (11), after (11), would (11), these (11), always (11), any (11), its (10), religion (10), philosophy (10), pentagon (10), edward (10), chris (10), korzybski (10), huxley (10), other (10), write (10), already (10), file (10), back (10), knew (10), make (10), genes (10), thing (10), same (10), secret (9), theory (9), political (9), plato (9), perception (9), krassner (9), good (9), fbi (9), ezra (9), bob (9), 2016 (9), writer (9), essay (9), anything (9), your (9), war (9), going (9), came (9), early (9), find (9), got (9), talk (9), doing (9), codes (9), interesting (8), writing (8), pynchon (8), open (8), bacon (8), richard (8), public (8), mind (8), nobel (8), left (8), mark (8), facebook (8), labels (8), west (8), favorite (8), october (8), lives (8), main (8), maybe (8), days (8), old (8), email (8), comments (8), posted (8), realized (8), down (8), didn (8), hoover (8), research (8), told (8), yet (8), friends (8), records (8), trying (8), everyone (8), became (8), love (8), against (8), electric (8), best (8), off (8), does (8), far (8), will (7), income (7), two (7), reality (7), society (7), black (7), freud (7), short (7), art (7), dick (7), peter (7), deep (7), anthropology (7), cia (7), church (7), beatles (7), anti (7), alfred (7), aldous (7), 20th (7), local (7), part (7), need (7), between (7), nature (7), june (7), pinterest (7), blogthis (7), age (7), past (7), while (7), called (7), via (7), true (7), ever (7), later (7), over (7), another (7), says (7), least (7), something (7), still (7), minded (7), looking (7), possibly (7), feel (7), since (7), wrote (7), study (7), sort (7), turned (7), point (7), works (7), thinking (7), playing (7), sound (7), cromwell (7), leonardo (6), writers (6), woody (6), state (6), edgar (6), self (6), control (6), novels (6), roger (6), rock (6), freedom (6), quote (6), psychedelic (6), police (6), philip (6), peace (6), neurogenetic (6), olmsted (6), campbell (6), intelligence (6), brain (6), free (6), death (6), foia (6), consciousness (6), digital (6), conspiracy (6), jung (6), carl (6), american (6), late (6), philosopher (6), among (6), thinkers (6), overweening (6), want (6), line (6), july (6), september (6), nothing (6), massive (6), anyone (6), her (6), official (6), unistat (6), understand (6), etc (6), should (6), interested (6), look (6), certain (6), through (6), often (6), every (6), writes (6), take (6), decoding (6), though (6), lot (6), mit (6), doesn (6), let (6), help (6), review (6), next (6), polymath (5), everything (5), vinci (5), believe (5), zen (5), words (5), guthrie (5), wilhelm (5), basic (5), tom (5), biology (5), sociology (5), sixties (5), sex (5), psychotherapy (5), body (5), poverty (5), oliver (5), coded (5), prize (5), archives (5), max (5), literature (5), kathryn (5), karl (5), jean (5), day (5), historical (5), hidden (5), group (5), revolution (5), eric (5), epigenetics (5), treffert (5), matter (5), computer (5), charles (5), bruce (5), ginsberg (5), 1960s (5), america (5), high (5), professor (5), erudite (5), influenced (5), born (5), form (5), proto (5), order (5), august (5), november (5), january (5), february (5), march (5), april (5), medieval (5), blog (5), plus (5), either (5), government (5), california (5), fairly (5), story (5), files (5), hearst (5), course (5), furthermore (5), tried (5), british (5), making (5), others (5), subject (5), under (5), spies (5), aware (5), wonderful (5), emotional (5), example (5), interview (5), understanding (5), heard (5), learn (5), hadn (5), such (5), isn (5), come (5), went (5), head (5), whose (5), once (5), worked (5), degree (5), models (5), written (5), quite (5), hell (5), himself (5), character (5), better (5), myself (5), again (5), around (5), king (5), last (4), universal (4), berlin (4), person (4), men (4), word (4), allen (4), bright (4), reich (4), wallace (4), ulysses (4), jackson (4), timothy (4), frank (4), third (4), surveillance (4), steve (4), stanley (4), sophists (4), sociobiology (4), sciences (4), credit (4), sexual (4), definition (4), scott (4), scientific (4), fiction (4), savants (4), russell (4), risk (4), quantum (4), pop (4), oxytocin (4), origin (4), herbert (4), neurolinguistics (4), model (4), obama (4), metaphor (4), mental (4), marshall (4), linguistic (4), lee (4), learning (4), genet (4), harvard (4), harry (4), orwell (4), genetics (4), general (4), gary (4), food (4), famous (4), davis (4), system (4), empire (4), snowden (4), donald (4), delillo (4), power (4), moynihan (4), cultural (4), counterculture (4), culleton (4), christianity (4), catholic (4), buddhism (4), buckminster (4), fuller (4), artists (4), crowley (4), adam (4), author (4), stellar (4), half (4), based (4), view (4), cuz (4), beginning (4), soon (4), article (4), western (4), case (4), needed (4), dangerous (4), decided (4), spy (4), gets (4), mitgang (4), apparently (4), bit (4), held (4), wondered (4), national (4), means (4), given (4), info (4), playboy (4), level (4), light (4), asked (4), during (4), biography (4), today (4), someone (4), easily (4), able (4), each (4), rather (4), passed (4), gives (4), loved (4), notion (4), place (4), needs (4), answer (4), seemed (4), away (4), extent (4), somehow (4), sophisticated (4), folk (4), close (4), basically (4), finally (4), recently (4), influence (4), makes (4), saying (4), locke (4), minds (4), genetic (4), drug (4), remember (4), end (4), non (4), try (4), unconscious (4), beyond (4), passage (4), believed (4), led (4), learned (4), jewish (4), stuff (4), jew (4), rolling (4), crack (4), minutes (4), suspected (4), known (4), within (4), faith (4), antiphon (4), use (4), essays (4), privilege (4), renaissance (3), isaiah (3), conversation (3), possible (3), yourself (3), night (3), burroughs (3), mathematics (3), comes (3), walter (3), benjamin (3), wall (3), values (3), translation (3), theology (3), construction (3), whorf (3), future (3), terry (3), southern (3), terrorism (3), mckenna (3), ted (3), taoism (3), waksman (3), steganography (3), sports (3), socrates (3), semantics (3), san (3), francisco (3), brooks (3), ron (3), roman (3), stars (3), francis (3), ray (3), rationality (3), ralph (3), radical (3), feminism (3), propaganda (3), rising (3), pragmatism (3), criticism (3), poetry (3), poetic (3), spending (3), paranoia (3), pacific (3), occupy (3), obscure (3), individuals (3), neuroscience (3), neo (3), negative (3), mythology (3), origins (3), murray (3), morris (3), law (3), mike (3), mass (3), mary (3), martin (3), mcluhan (3), smith (3), lsd (3), logic (3), literary (3), israel (3), kenneth (3), jesus (3), jonah (3), maynard (3), lanchester (3), jim (3), jews (3), jerome (3), jack (3), investigative (3), internet (3), increase (3), inequality (3), ian (3), humor (3), henry (3), shapiro (3), guy (3), grateful (3), god (3), gnosticism (3), giambattista (3), vico (3), genius (3), school (3), finnegans (3), wake (3), film (3), states (3), existential (3), evolution (3), erik (3), economic (3), earth (3), trump (3), dog (3), dean (3), lewis (3), kahn (3), foster (3), darold (3), patrick (3), corporate (3), cointelpro (3), claire (3), cannabis (3), problems (3), big (3), berkeley (3), beer (3), audience (3), grey (3), andrew (3), allan (3), north (3), academics (3), academia (3), abstract (3), 1935 (3), current (3), novelist (3), thinker (3), 1973 (3), structure (3), philosophical (3), figure (3), having (3), page (3), europe (3), took (3), outside (3), drop (3), please (3), december (3), org (3), return (3), wing (3), actually (3), posts (3), secrecy (3), important (3), put (3), along (3), cold (3), upon (3), congress (3), mostly (3), show (3), allowed (3), fdr (3), happened (3), deman (3), 1968 (3), company (3), reasons (3), folks (3), threat (3), assholes (3), major (3), 200 (3), personal (3), request (3), nowhere (3), three (3), okay (3), ran (3), tis (3), sent (3), won (3), tell (3), movement (3), talked (3), wanted (3), chicago (3), paranoid (3), ask (3), services (3), pre (3), fascinating (3), reason (3), quasi (3), changes (3), acquisition (3), pretty (3), tough (3), tender (3), four (3), post (3), speak (3), embodied (3), taken (3), solved (3), further (3), ultimately (3), wonderfully (3), 1950s (3), decades (3), without (3), deeply (3), anthropologist (3), answers (3), student (3), getting (3), job (3), different (3), cracked (3), english (3), lead (3), kill (3), themselves (3), grammar (3), mentioned (3), humans (3), enough (3), almost (3), account (3), mean (3), brilliant (3), wrong (3), aye (3), certainly (3), mom (3), winning (3), memories (3), nirenberg (3), linked (3), epigenetic (3), gene (3), hormone (3), feedback (3), generation (3), wasn (3), telling (3), rich (3), speaking (3), marijuana (3), 1965 (3), difficult (3), acoustic (3), consider (3), acid (3), struck (3), songs (3), stone (3), funny (3), both (3), turn (3), met (3), natural (3), slothrop (3), reminds (3), allies (3), italy (3), ciphers (3), brother (3), postmodernists (3), kept (3), wife (3), pope (3), optics (3), 11th (3), become (3), lots (3), toward (3), radio (3), religious (3), citing (3), theologian (3), meeting (3), capital (3), wisdom (3), insecurity (3), cookson (3), section (3), market (3), bankers (3), cause (3), vegetable (3), increases (3), buchan (3), town (3), financial (3), responsibility (3), abc (3), theme (2), blogger (2), athanasius (2), kircher (2), 1600 (2), wants (2), whatever (2), boring (2), unreal (2), apocalypse (2), yes (2), alcohol (2), wordsworth (2), irwin (2), wealth (2), water (2), warfare (2), street (2), voltaire (2), violence (2), unemployment (2), unabomber (2), umberto (2), eco (2), turks (2), toxoplasmosis (2), travel (2), kuhn (2), rail (2), issues (2), kaczynski (2), sapir (2), hypothesis (2), class (2), swan (2), terence (2), technology (2), technical (2), tea (2), party (2), tribe (2), synthetic (2), stupidity (2), structuralism (2), stewart (2), stephen (2), statistics (2), owners (2), specialists (2), space (2), migration (2), justice (2), sirius (2), sigmund (2), sexuality (2), fascism (2), magick (2), adams (2), method (2), sarah (2), roland (2), sapolsky (2), temple (2), searle (2), rorty (2), revolutionaries (2), descartes (2), relativity (2), kurzweil (2), abraham (2), rachel (2), physics (2), qualia (2), psychology (2), prophets (2), prometheus (2), progress (2), privacy (2), pornography (2), pleasure (2), complex (2), effect (2), van (2), singer (2), dale (2), berger (2), studies (2), craig (2), roberts (2), paper (2), opinion (2), ontology (2), odd (2), instruments (2), texts (2), authority (2), niels (2), bohr (2), nick (2), york (2), atheists (2), neurotheology (2), neurobiology (2), nessa (2), carey (2), nassim (2), nicholas (2), taleb (2), naive (2), myth (2), mysticism (2), musical (2), swift (2), montaigne (2), modernism (2), galaxy (2), freedman (2), metaphors (2), memory (2), medical (2), horkheimer (2), ernst (2), gavin (2), masturbation (2), jay (2), markoff (2), turner (2), adler (2), marc (2), mafia (2), mad (2), scientists (2), lera (2), boroditsky (2), leonard (2), leo (2), strauss (2), lawrence (2), hubbard (2), koch (2), keith (2), marx (2), judith (2), judgement (2), chase (2), jonathan (2), lehrer (2), jon (2), von (2), taylor (2), keynes (2), dewey (2), coltrane (2), gottfried (2), jimmy (2), hendrix (2), feldman (2), wagner (2), jane (2), bach (2), regardie (2), islamic (2), reporters (2), design (2), individualism (2), illuminati (2), ideology (2), howard (2), hippies (2), hitler (2), imagination (2), hillary (2), clinton (2), herman (2), heavy (2), metal (2), guns (2), selection (2), gregory (2), gravity (2), rainbow (2), priest (2), gore (2), goddess (2), glenn (2), giordano (2), bruno (2), saunders (2), carlin (2), geoffrey (2), generalists (2), johnson (2), molecule (2), fritz (2), friedrich (2), nietzsche (2), fraud (2), franz (2), kafka (2), frankfurt (2), extremistan (2), evolutionary (2), erotic (2), weinstein (2), bell (2), elizabeth (2), electronic (2), einstein (2), eight (2), sanders (2), censorship (2), ecology (2), dot (2), com (2), domestic (2), star (2), disinformation (2), dialectic (2), depression (2), democratic (2), lynch (2), dave (2), dark (2), lord (2), cryptology (2), critical (2), cosmology (2), cosmic (2), controversial (2), theories (2), simulation (2), common (2), college (2), education (2), collecting (2), change (2), claude (2), christmas (2), chemical (2), sagan (2), capitalism (2), brian (2), blogging (2), birth (2), data (2), bertrand (2), bernard (2), barbara (2), bad (2), astral (2), arthur (2), arnold (2), aristotle (2), anxiety (2), ants (2), antonio (2), semitism (2), animal (2), behavior (2), anarchism (2), alvin (2), alternative (2), histories (2), altered (2), alienation (2), alien (2), contact (2), alex (2), aleister (2), ada (2), lovelace (2), 4th (2), presidential (2), election (2), 2012 (2), 2007 (2), 18th (2), 1963 (2), circle (2), rexroth (2), eastern (2), speaker (2), trust (2), popular (2), atheist (2), live (2), 1895 (2), 1996 (2), easy (2), conscience (2), activist (2), ultimate (2), oracle (2), 1914 (2), hero (2), 1940 (2), conclusion (2), paid (2), independent (2), scholar (2), esoterica (2), heretical (2), 2013 (2), 2014 (2), special (2), edge (2), agent (2), 2020 (2), issue (2), feed (2), moved (2), update (2), trip (2), building (2), months (2), month (2), table (2), weeks (2), evonomics (2), confessions (2), hope (2), zero (2), boing (2), companies (2), slate (2), game (2), stories (2), net (2), hours (2), caused (2), followers (2), home (2), adventure (2), below (2), losers (2), openness (2), era (2), published (2), predicting (2), exist (2), earlier (2), labor (2), persuasive (2), named (2), thoughts (2), shared (2), groups (2), cops (2), sources (2), obviously (2), duck (2), titled (2), send (2), cover (2), convention (2), patty (2), mother (2), gave (2), 000 (2), owned (2), investigating (2), bought (2), 1000 (2), missed (2), currently (2), presented (2), 192 (2), arrived (2), pages (2), released (2), heavily (2), writings (2), watched (2), couldn (2), notes (2), largely (2), due (2), overt (2), judgments (2), merely (2), reflect (2), relationships (2), act (2), morisy (2), muckrock (2), note (2), identify (2), security (2), wonder (2), numbers (2), symbols (2), transparent (2), friend (2), scads (2), involved (2), acquired (2), meaningless (2), introduction (2), finds (2), panthers (2), agents (2), country (2), offered (2), thick (2), guess (2), questions (2), worth (2), radically (2), spying (2), executive (2), explained (2), closed (2), door (2), editor (2), fat (2), covered (2), brave (2), examiner (2), telephone (2), gas (2), lines (2), esquire (2), university (2), uttered (2), sentences (2), previous (2), miraculously (2), forebears (2), ability (2), drawn (2), takes (2), device (2), publisher (2), gotta (2), wait (2), till (2), flesh (2), challenge (2), five (2), felt (2), although (2), safe (2), spoke (2), literally (2), academy (2), practice (2), hand (2), consequences (2), catch (2), piece (2), seeming (2), value (2), using (2), particular (2), nonsense (2), wildly (2), run (2), large (2), secondary (2), dissonance (2), oeuvre (2), holocaust (2), virtually (2), faculty (2), rostow (2), adept (2), theorists (2), talks (2), vastly (2), apex (2), perfect (2), give (2), land (2), looked (2), moving (2), name (2), spanish (2), minute (2), lies (2), signs (2), dramatic (2), strange (2), rules (2), program (2), admires (2), scholarship (2), spent (2), knowing (2), department (2), series (2), solve (2), goes (2), astonishingly (2), 1945 (2), version (2), neurolinguist (2), despise (2), harris (2), wars (2), worldwide (2), championing (2), mentioning (2), foreign (2), mention (2), less (2), studied (2), impact (2), suffice (2), monday (2), established (2), loaded (2), presumably (2), inherit (2), dad (2), inheritance (2), environment (2), lecture (2), metaphorical (2), turns (2), immediate (2), expression (2), experiences (2), nurture (2), effects (2), connected (2), plenty (2), room (2), studying (2), abilities (2), traditional (2), thinks (2), bashed (2), instead (2), throughout (2), riffs (2), topic (2), olla (2), podrida (2), mere (2), awareness (2), multiple (2), provided (2), immeasurably (2), vast (2), constitutive (2), framework (2), fun (2), modern (2), children (2), alter (2), appeared (2), rumors (2), award (2), press (2), carly (2), rate (2), 1964 (2), woodstock (2), done (2), groovy (2), 1967 (2), loder (2), picked (2), kind (2), hear (2), song (2), taking (2), hebrew (2), lessons (2), killed (2), beatnik (2), stoned (2), desire (2), creative (2), smoking (2), ended (2), phil (2), ochs (2), absurd (2), nevertheless (2), claims (2), tracks (2), blonde (2), heads (2), allied (2), army (2), enigma (2), agreed (2), anyway (2), captured (2), cantos (2), set (2), saw (2), simply (2), suspect (2), embedded (2), serious (2), structures (2), white (2), noise (2), jungle (2), operative (2), tradition (2), little (2), tired (2), enjoy (2), mail (2), happen (2), hilarious (2), redford (2), working (2), condor (2), films (2), messages (2), decipher (2), decode (2), function (2), priests (2), else (2), gotten (2), occurs (2), roughly (2), persecuted (2), explain (2), hasan (2), ibn (2), cairo (2), polynesian (2), recent (2), happens (2), perceive (2), pure (2), sensation (2), event (2), died (2), small (2), thrilling (2), navigator (2), chants (2), varieties (2), tuesday (2), sick (2), innovative (2), nuanced (2), avant (2), indeed (2), christian (2), caesar (2), muslims (2), sensualist (2), transcendent (2), extensive (2), hardly (2), interest (2), 1951 (2), cool (2), key (2), living (2), realities (2), forget (2), gorgias (2), weirdo (2), protagoras (2), according (2), protestant (2), entertaining (2), guru (2), entertainer (2), philosophers (2), stand (2), onto (2), fantastic (2), fell (2), riff (2), repeated (2), 1959 (2), fake (2), houseboat (2), boat (2), began (2), gnostic (2), besides (2), itself (2), hide (2), fate (2), 1917 (2), weird (2), cut (2), stock (2), mussolini (2), civilization (2), included (2), role (2), goods (2), until (2), economists (2), addressing (2), mineral (2), players (2), increasing (2), sexy (2), hyper (2), hyde (2), banker (2), addressed (2), assumes (2), usury (2), sodomy (2), whistle (2), beautiful (2), proof (2), peer (2), currencies (2), face (2), monopoly (2), wage (2), wal (2), mart (2), billion (2), selected (2), prose (2), 1909 (2), privileged (2), classes (2), ethereal, powered, egyptologist, archaeologist, mathematician, vulcanologist, physicist, biologist, 1680, epitome, ramin, jahanbegloo, unless, discussing, remain, catalogue, unexamined, doctrines, terribly, sir, zombie, zeitgeist, yuval, noah, harari, tube, yanomamo, aversion, witches, winifred, gallagher, vollmann, shakespeare, thompson, gaddis, faulkner, dilthey, wilbur, scoville, wicca, weather, underground, wassily, kandinsky, kotschnig, walmart, stevens, walker, pearcy, quine, merwin, auden, vitamins, visions, affiliations, vision, viruses, verum, factum, ramachandran, utopianism, universalism, unemployed, uncertainty, ufos, cultures, twilight, zone, trash, transsexuality, transhumanism, totalitarian, tony, quagliano, tomatoes, robbins, paine, malthus, luckmann, laqueur, theodore, enemies, rise, metzger, testosterone, testicles, temporal, lobe, epilepsy, television, teilhard, chardin, rall, mccagg, gioia, technological, intelligentsia, taxonomies, taste, tale, eliot, syria, synthesizers, surrealism, surgery, supertasters, suicide, sufis, suetonius, suburbia, subconscious, stylometry, style, brand, almond, wolfram, hawking, stem, cells, statins, kubrick, hyman, stanislaw, lem, stanislav, grof, sri, syadasti, team, spinoza, specialist, soloists, solitude, smell, smedley, butler, sloth, slime, molds, skepticism, sitting, singularity, simeon, strunsky, silence, sickness, shulamith, firestone, sherry, turkle, shelly, kagan, males, shaman, seti, seth, rosenfeld, sentimentality, modulation, experimentation, seduction, societies, season, witch, sds, timberg, scientology, illiteracy, sanity, schizophrenia, satire, manguso, sanjay, gupta, sadomasochism, hayakawa, kirk, jacoby, rupert, sheldrake, rumi, rosa, ronald, reagan, rosenbaum, jarzombek, romance, polanski, jakobson, griffiths, barthes, roe, wade, robots, robin, dunbar, warshow, walser, trivers, sheaffer, scheer, pula, heinlein, hass, darnton, crumb, benchley, rick, nixon, feynman, dawkins, brautigan, rhoney, gissen, rhetoric, reproductive, repressive, desublimation, rene, reed, hadley, reductionism, realpolitick, bradbury, randall, collins, radicalism, racism, maddow, donezal, montage, qualities, publishing, relations, psycholinguistics, psychogeography, psychobiology, healing, psy, ops, cults, madness, programming, prison, primatology, primates, prehistory, pranks, practical, postmodernism, possessions, porn, corruption, brutality, humanism, plutocracy, pliny, elder, platonic, planetary, placebos, placebo, pierre, bayard, pico, iyer, photography, philippe, parijs, tetlock, marlowe, jenkins, phenomenology, pharmaceuticals, lamborn, bebergal, pessimism, perspective, performance, republic, china, pearson, shaw, zak, staments, krugman, fussell, feyerabend, dirac, bloom, patton, oswalt, paradigm, shifts, panspermia, panopticon, pandemics, palindromes, painting, paideuma, paganism, garbage, patch, pablo, casals, randolph, owsley, overpopulation, outliers, orson, welles, organoleptic, methodology, organic, optimism, sacks, olaf, stapledon, odors, disciplines, occultists, obesity, obes, obedience, nuzak, number, nsa, novelty, novel, norman, pollack, normalcy, noosphere, nonexistent, nomadology, noel, nitrous, oxide, nicolo, paganini, bostrom, niccolo, machiavelli, monastic, neuropathology, neurologic, neurogeography, neophilia, neologisms, neoliberalism, cons, neil, postman
Text of the page (random words):
ing to say about noam s politics lakoff is definitely a liberal of some sort so social anthropologist chris knight wiki has almost miraculously solved the chomsky problem i ve been trying to solve it for 20 years i now feel the euphoria that one of us has solved it my many blogspews here as the overweening generalist on my own attempts to solve the chomsky problem now seem horribly unsophisticated and so it goes decoding chomsky science and revolutionary politics recently released is an astonishingly well written and researched volume that will probably be the most important work in the history of ideas post world war ii that you ll read for quite some time and i say this if only out of chomsky s massive influence knight has made a stellar contribution to the sociology of knowledge the sociology of intellectuals 1945 now and has explicated lucidly a new and dynamite version of how the cognitive revolution arose knight has apparently spent the past 20 years researching this book and has managed to boil it all down to 240 pages plus endnotes a massive bibliography and index in an interview he mentioned that he d finished a work in his field of anthropology and hadn t really covered the origin of language in humans because he felt he didn t know enough about the subject knowing chomsky was mr linguistics having virtually single handedly made it into a science and moving linguistics from the anthropology department into the new cognitive science labs at your nearby big university he read chomsky s linguistics in order to understand and he ran into what i ran into it s a cold abstract to a painful degree literally meaningless an unworkable series of models that get this by definition has nothing to do with humans communicating with each other chris knight says he admires chomsky s political work and there s no reason not to believe him he clearly admires chomsky s scholarship and courage in this regard as do i at times knight s said there are a lot of conscientious academics and intellectuals who have criticized the us as imperial power but no one really even comes close to chomsky that said noam chomsky whose linguistic models are finally seeming to be exposed as going nowhere anyone who has tried to follow chomsky s many models of cartesian linguistics aka masochists and thought to themselves either i m an idiot or this is a put on or possibly massive fraud that was me at one point will know what i m referring to phrase structure rules transformational rules grammar deep structure the nature of the language organ the minimalist program universal grammar and merge all scientistic all going nowhere basically knight runs all these down pp 173 179 so wait a minute what how can noam write about lies and propaganda which are by definition language and signs and symbols and social work among human beings while his linguistics work has nothing to do with our social being because of an admitted schizophrenic life chomsky admits he must lead because since the 1950s he s worked in the very place that the pentagon has funneled enormous sums of research money into mit perhaps because his quasi kabbalistic linguistics allowed him that ivory tower opiate he needed to deal with the cognitive dissonance if so if this is anywheres near a close view of chomsky then it s dramatic and strange to the nth degree no chomsky once wrote an article on the fall of barcelona in the spanish civil war he greatly admired the anarchists he had just turned 10 years old he decided he d rejected trotskyism by age 12 this is an interesting fellow eh noam had friends help him land the job at mit where he was able to work on the pentagon s new idea that computers and cybernetics and information theory would help make the world safe for capitalism after wwii the idea that there s a language acquisition device a very sophisticated computer inside every human being s head very appealing to pentagon folk this was a computer whose source code must be cracked and chomsky s work looked like it was moving in exactly the direction they wanted maybe we can develop a computer that can translate any language into english that should help in the cold war effort against the godless commies let s let chomsky lead a disembodied cognitive revolution and he did but noam didn t want to do any intellectual work that would help kill people in the name of omnicorp here s where adept conspiracy theorists can take this book and run with it did chomsky hijack linguistics and purposefully make it useless neither knight nor i believe this to be true chomsky seems to genuinely have ideas which seem bizarre and fruitless to me about a sort of purity of work in science there s one of william james s lectures on pragmatism from the early 20th century in which james talks about two vastly different temperaments among thinkers the tough minded and the tender minded somehow chomsky is the apex of tough minded when doing his political work while his linguistics is the very apogee of the tender minded his persona as a man of conscience and political integrity seems to have been a perfect match for the pentagon see the top man in cognitive science is free to write his books give talks criticizing the pentagon all over the world because we re a free society but how does chomsky manage this cognitive dissonance does he feel it what have been the unintended consequences of chomsky s total oeuvre knight answers these questions to my satisfaction to those of you who ve heard or read that chomsky defended a holocaust denier named robert faurisson was is friends with former cia director john deutsch and went against virtually the entire faculty and student body at mit in defending walt rostow in getting his job back at mit even though rostow has been nailed overwhelmingly in chomsky s books on vietnam knight satisfactorily answers these queries too as an anthropologist knight treats the heavily funded by pentagon cognitive scientists as a tribe why did this particular form of nonsense catch on so wildly in postwar unistat knight gives a fascinating answer if the only other superpower seemed to run on ideas based in matter dialectical materialism then what if we do away with matter and to a large extent they did information data is weightless travels at the speed of light matter is secondary so is the body along the way you ll learn about the deep roots of sociobiology and a form of scientific feminism that needs to come back from being beaten down by anti science leftists in academia how a russian futurist surrealist from the first two decades of the 20th century influenced chomsky without chomsky seeming to know about it and much more if you had to ask me what was the overall value of chomsky s linguistic work at mit i d say it was don t study language using this approach language is and has no doubt always been a deeply social thing if you re interested in politics philosophy and the idea of science being an open and public and possibly ultimately unified thing decoding chomsky is for you if you re already a seasoned reader of chomsky i feel safe to say you ll learn a few new things from this book for me the book spoke to my interests in the origin of language of which chomsky s work is literally laughable and the fallout from the new and wonderfully interdisciplinary cognitive sciences knight let me on to some reasons i hadn t even considered about why my valuation of being a generalist has taken such a beating since the 1950s not long ago i wrote a piece about why i thought alfred korzybski s work had waned and knight fills in a lot of gaps there too i m interested in the history of structuralism the academy pr mass stupidity intellectuals embodied knowledge descartes plato newton galileo and bertrand russell the possible synthesizing of all knowledge why many people have the idea that science isn t for them the idea of theory and practice going hand in hand and the timeless notion that ideas have consequences and one clue to this is looking at the time and place and social situation in which ideas blast off and catch on so i loved this book my intellectual friends have already heard way too much about my problems with chomsky and i m only so lathered up over noam because i love him although i know it doesn t seem like it ya just hafta take my word og chris knight s website for further ideas about chomsky and mit here s an interview with chris knight in the journal radical anthropology from five or so years ago that gives a lot of the gist and pith of decoding chomsky it was this interview sent to me by sue howard that felt like a revelation here s a guy who seems to have maybe solved the chomsky problem if you have been taken by chomsky s ideas about language and want to remediate some suggestions the major transitions of evolution by john maynard smith and eors szathmary adam s tongue by derek bickerton cultural origins of human cognition by michael tomasello philosophy in the flesh the embodied mind and its challenge to western thought by george lakoff and mark johnson from molecule to metaphor by jerome feldman mothers and others the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding by sarah hrdy the way we think by mark turner and gilles fauconnier here s something many of us are looking forward to 7000 universes how the languages we speak shape the way we think by the stellar lera boroditsky gotta wait till 2018 though if you re way too busy and don t think you can get to reading decoding chomsky soon here is a pretty damned good podcast interview of chris knight about chomsky by the thoughtful and erudite publisher and science fiction writer douglas lain post scriptum after writing about the two chomskys in light of william james s ideas of the tough minded and tender minded i remembered i blogged on it four years ago psychedelische grafik von bob campbell posted by michael at 11 27 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels anarchism anthropology chomsky problem chris knight cognitive science intellectuals karl marx neurolinguistics noam chomsky sociobiology sociology of knowledge william james wednesday september 14 2016 surveillance in unistat pre snowden file 23a life is either a great adventure or it is nothing see below a case can be made that secrecy is for losers for people who don t know how important information really is the soviet union realized this too late openness is now a singular and singularly american advantage we put it in peril by poking along in an age now past it is time to dismantle government secrecy this most pervasive of all cold war regulations it is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us daniel patrick moynihan in his 1998 book secrecy the american experience p 227 moynihan the intellectual in the senate published 10 books before going to congress vacillated from neoliberal to neocon you figure it out meanwhile after the berlin wall came down the intellectuals i was reading kicked out of academia or were never part of it or noam chomsky as special case were mostly predicting islamic terrorism as what the pentagon would need in order to keep their rotten show on the road none of these writers i was reading were allowed on tv so for most unistatians this idea didn t exist kathryn olmsted history professor at university of california davis who writes books on spies and national security issues earlier this year i read u c davis history professor kathryn olmsted s book right out of california which has the thesis that the unistatian right as it s now constituted started in the farmland of california in the depression because fdr s labor people realized he needed the south so there were no protections for labor organizers of the farmworkers in california i found it fairly persuasive and i m a fan of olmsted s books now in this book i happened upon the story of a us general named ralph deman who had accumulated a massive file on anyone he thought might harbor thoughts he might deem dangerous that is anything that didn t toe the corporate state line and he shared his files with right wing groups and the cops see right out of california pp 151 157 and some of us at one time thought j edgar hoover was the only one i thought so in my 20s regarding ralph deman one of olmsted s grad students responded to an email query about information sources on him obviously you can duck duck go deman but scott pittman cited books titled policing america s empire and negative intelligence esquire magazine decided to send william s burroughs terry southern and jean genet to cover the 1968 democratic convention in czechago genet had a line the danger for america is not mao s thoughts it is the proliferation of cameras see smiling through the apocalypse esquire s history of the sixties p 98 poet as distant early warning system while patty hearst s trial was ongoing it came out that her mother catherine gave or lent 60 000 to 70 000 to a company called research west back in 1969 what was research west it was a private right wing spy organization that maintained files supplied by confessed burglar jerome ducote patty hearst and the twinkie murders paul krassner p 35 there had been journalistic investigations of this but hearst owned newspaper reporters were told to stop investigating for obvious reasons a santa cruz paper the sundaz not owned by the hearsts did investigate and found that before mrs hearst bought it it was supported by contributions averaging 1000 and well i ll quote krassner here on who was contributing pacific telephone pacific gas and electric railroads steamship lines banks and hearst s own the examiner in return the files were available to those companies as well as to local police and sheriff departments the fbi the cia and the irs the examiner paid 1500 a year through 1975 to retain the services of research west p 35 krassner it gets deeper and more of course nefarious but i d like you to read krassner s book to see how much we ve missed from the official story investigative satirist and national treasure paul krassner the good folks at open culture are currently as of the date i m writing this featuring an animated 1958 aldous huxley predicting our world dystopian threats to freedom how alarmist and yet aldous immediately presented a threat to assholes like j edgar hoover who denied the mafia existed because they knew he was gay and could crush him and furthermore he protected and was friends with a major mobster frank costello see the secret histories an anthology ed by john s friedman article official and confidential the secret life of j edgar hoover by anthony summers 1993 pp 192 200 and other protectors of the 1 huxley arrived in unistat in 1938 and author herbert mitgang obtained huxley s fbi files of the 130 pages 111 were released to me many heavily censored the net of them he and his daring and original writings were watched dangerous dossiers exposing the secret war a...
|
