Politics

A lecture on politics of the 21st century

Point was intellectuals are not necessarily academics and academics are not necessarily intellectuals. Intellectuals are those who voice their opinions in a social, political, economical, religious way.

But I mean who is someone who is in the process of working on an idea, say world hunger through research on genetically modified crop and does not have the means necessary to go out there and shout at the social, political, and economical system or even if he or she can shout, has nothing new or more important than what is out there already to say? This is my immediate emotional response. My second emotional response is related to some dangers of the classification systems we come up with. I may think of more to say later.

A biological standpoint by Darwin: It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.

A point I really liked however was that you can't simplify all of philosophy or philosophical thought using a comic strip [was that a critic to Persepolis? I don't know]. Simplicity is good, but complexity behind simplicity is better.

[I have a headache now. I really do. Tylenol was the best political invention of the 21st century. I don't mean to make fun. I really don't. This is a serious matter. Let's take it seriously. But serious enough to keep us headache free.]