• The Bureaucratic Control against Indigenous Australia

    Captain James Cooke arrived on Australian shores in the year 1770. After charting the east coast, he officiated that Australia was uninhabited, desolate and belonged to no one, identifying Australia as terra nullius and acquiring it authoritatively for King George III . The savages, as Captain Cooke elucidated, were primitive, uneducated and uncivilised, roaming peripatetically, consuming what the land bared, and...

  • Violence is not just Physical – Words that Underpin Intolerance

    Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence. When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a C...

  • The Bureaucratic Control against Indigenous Australia

    Captain James Cooke arrived on Australian shores in the year 1770. After charting the east coast, he officiated that Australia was uninhabited, desolate and belonged to no one, identifying Australia as terra nullius and acquiring it authoritatively for King George III . The savages, as Captain Cooke elucidated, were primitive, uneducated and uncivilised, roaming peripatetically, consuming what the land bared, and...

  • Violence is not just Physical – Words that Underpin Intolerance

    Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence. When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a C...

  • The Real History of Capitalism

    Take a look at the history of “trucking and bartering” itself; look at the history of modern capitalism, about which we know a lot. The first thing you’ll notice is, peasants had to be driven by force and violence into a wage-labor system they did not want; then major efforts were undertaken – conscious efforts – to create wants. In fact, if you look back, there’s a whole interesting literature of conscious discussio...

Posts tagged Truth

Is the majority or minority stronger?

Oct 22nd

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Philosophy

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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant, when it is evident that the minority is the stronger, assume its opinion. Where upon its revise truth again reverts to a new minority.

Is it wrong to challenge the integrity of an accepted “truth”?

Jul 5th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Other Sites

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All premises, even if they are accepted as truthful, should still be challenged on a regular basis. Just because a truth may be valid for one instance does not mean that it always will be.

Here is an excerpt from On Liberty by John Stuart Mills:

1. If an opinion contains truth and the opinion is silenced, the truth is lost.

2. Even if there is only a particle of truth in a wrong opinion, the truth is still lost if the opinion is silenced.

3. Even if a popular accepted opinion is the truth, people will hold onto that truth as a mere More >

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