Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Right to Internet
Why we must prepare to defend our freedom in the inevitable fight to come. Freedom is precious thing. Too often people of wealth and power try to take it away from us to advance their agenda. One of our favourite free places in the world is the internet. We use to escape the real world.…
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Not-so-Free-Speech
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” -Evelyn Beatrice Hall I recently re-read the old classic “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. The first time I read it was when I was in fourth grade. Back then my childlike mind couldn’t spell “political assassinations”, let…
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Human Hypocrisy
WARNING – THIS POST EXPRESSES SOME HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL AND UNPOPULAR OPINIONS. IF YOU GET EASILY TRIGGERED PLEASE TURN AWAY NOW Humans. Of all possible traits they could ever express, hypocrisy had to be one of them. We are all hypocrites. I’m one, you’re another, we all are; we’re just too afraid to admit it. We…
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A Grand Rebirth
Have you ever had that hollow sensation? That acute sense of apathy? That calm realisation that nothing bothers you anymore? An asteroid could collide into the planet in the next five minutes and the most emotion you would show would be a strong “meh”. Literally anything could happen, but you just don’t care. For you…
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A.L. Ashkenaz 