Philosophy Wire: Gay Superman? NO!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-02-13]: Gay rights activists protest and shout about the decision of the Superman comics creator to hire a homophobic author to write the new series of the hero. [source: web news] Since when loving gays (or “homosexuals”) is obligatory?!?!? YES, gays have all the rights people have! We have SOLVED THIS MATTER a long time ago! Get over it! Again: Since when loving gays is obligatory?!?!? Should we have a super-gay (since he is… Super-man) Superman, just for change? Just to show how much we all love gays, how much we all like to look like them, how much we accept them and wish all our children be like them? I ‘ve had enough of this hypocritical behavior and this oppression of the role models IMPOSED by society – just in order not to be called a “fascist”, a “conservative”, a man with “complexes”. If we must accept homosexuals, then they must also accept those who do not accept them! (see here) I DO NOT WANT the new writer of Superman to have weird thoughts when he sketches the hero saving a MAN from a fire!!! As simple as that.

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Philosophy Wire: Unemployed or Prostitute? Decide!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-02-10]: A German job center has tried to line up a position for a young woman in a brothel. A German job center is calling it an "oversight," but the young woman in question isn't taking it lightly. A 19-year-old woman in the southern German city of Augsburg had been hunting for a job for months before the local, government-run job center contacted her about a potential position. "I was absolutely outraged," the newspaper quoted the woman as saying. "My mother immediately screamed when she saw the letter". [source: web news] This is actually not the first time something like that happens in Germany. Some years ago another young woman faced the threat of losing her unemployment benefits if she did not accept a job offer to work as a prostitute!!! (see here) Our civilization has progressed. And we have now learned that work is no shame. Or maybe some kinds of work are? How much do we really mean it when we refer to equality or when we defend the right of hookers to work? (prostitution is legal in Germany) How much hypocrites are we when we say that we would get any job if we were left unemployed? Perhaps the difference between “civilized” and “uncivilized” is that the latter cannot lie so good as we can…

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Philosophy Wire: Genetic tests, Kaiadas, Hypocrisy

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-01-10]: A noninvasive, sequencing-based approach for detecting chromosomal abnormalities in the developing fetus is safer and more informative in some cases than traditional methods, according to a study published Jan. 10 by Cell Press in The American Journal of Human Genetics. This method, which analyzes fetal DNA in the mother's blood, could provide women with a cost-effective way to find out whether their unborn baby will have major problems, like developmental delay, intellectual disability, congenital defects, and autism. [source: Science Daily] It sounds great. But the basic question is: what will the mother do with this “information”? If the goal of science is death, things can go the wrong way all too quickly. And let us not fool our selves. This “advanced method” will lead many unborn children to their death because their parents do not want to lose their comfort… In the old Sparta it was called Kaiadas. Now it is called “medicine”…

 

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Philosophy Wire: Children? Yes, but not with us!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-01-01]: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie go for vacation at Caicos islands, along with 12 nannies to take care of their children so that they can enjoy vacation free. [source: web news] Other people trie countless times to have a child with no success and Angelina and Brand - who just can go into the "store" (call me Africa) and buy one - want to get rid of them. This is our civilization: we want to have children for status, as a kind of "property", as a means to show off and perhaps as a way to satisfy our vanity (or just to have someone to take care of us when we get old). Besides that, children as just a burden.

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Philosophy Wire: Vienna Philharmonic, Nazis, malakies

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-12-27]: The Green Party of Austria wants to investigate the relations of Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with Nazis back in WWII. [source: web news] Well, some people just can’t get enough. Even though we won, we must now crush into the ground like worms anyone who might had any relationship with Hitler’s party 60 years ago. We all know that winners are the ones who write history. What we do not know is how malakes (Gr. μαλάκες) can the winners be some times…

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Philosophy Wire: EU, Greece and the known parasites… (England, Sweden)

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-12-14]: A new centralized supervision of Eurozone banks is agreed upon. And UK and Sweden are the first to announce that they do not want (and will not) to be part of it.[source: web news, BBC News] UK and Sweden are once again mentioned in a post with the “hypocrisy” tag. They want to be in the EU but not when it comes to them making sacrifices. EU was based on the vision of some politicians who did not have money in their mind. And it is very difficult to find successors of De Gaulle (who had stalled UK as long as he could before accepting her the to the Union) in an era where people think highly of countries like Holland and feel contempt for countries like Greece…

 

PS. Yes. A country is NOT only its economy!

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Philosophy Wire: N. Korea, progress, worries…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-12-13]: The “civilized” world is worried about the satellite launched by N. Korea. [source: web news] You see, progress is a privilege of few…

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Philosophy Wire: Siemens, Desertec, ecologic hypocrisy…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-11-01]: Siemens departed from the Group that was formed to create a massive solar energy park at Sahara desert [source: web news]. A little ecology is always good, as long as it is limited to advertisements and in fixing the company’s public image. Too much ecology is bad however… (for corporate economic interests)

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Bullfights live on TV again! At last!

Bullfights are to be broadcasted again live on the spanish TV! [1]
People will be able to see the bullfights live here tommorow 18:00 CET.

At last!
Α small but important victory of bullfight lovers against hypocrits in Spain!

And for those who wander why should someone be happy for that, read Why we need more bullfights! ...

Philosophy Wire: France “swift” action – a VERY short joke…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-08-31]: France threatens Syria that it will take “swift” action againt it in case chemical weapons are used [source: web news]. Hahaha!!! If THAT is a real joke! The nation which was conquered in a week (and then faked a “grand" resistance” movement) in WWII now “threatens” with “swift” action! Nice…   This would be really funny if it wasn’t so hypocritical and fake…

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Philosophy Wire: Pussy Riot, art, “art” and the hypocrisy of International Amnesty

This IS art. Pussy Riot in a church is NOT!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-08-17]: Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot have been jailed for two years after staging an anti-Vladimir Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral. Judge Marina Syrova convicted the women of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, saying they had "crudely undermined social order" [source: web news]. The lawyers of the band say they will appeal in European courts for the case. It is also noted that International Amnesty has sent a letter of protest to the Russian embassy in London. Where is true art anyway?!?!? How can any idiot SMALL person who THINKS is an artist just get into churches and offend anything he or she likes without expecting to be punished or experience a reaction to his action? Where have true artists gone? And what the hell has the International Amnesty to do with this? If someone broke into the Dawkins Foundation and sketched Christian crosses on the walls and then was punished, would the Amnesty take a similar stand? Who the fuck would know Pussy Riot had it not been for this (and the stupid name they have)? Freedom and Art is not the same as “Doing anything I want” and “Doing bullshit”. We must all understand that.

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Philosophy Wire: Bad Chinese eating dogs! Good Westerners, eating... everything else!

“Bad”, “uncivilized” Chinese… Eating dogs…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-07-26]:

An article showing [source: web news] how appalled we should all be for the Chinese who pack together many dogs for slaughter. Why? Well. They just eat them! How horrific can that be?!? All those poor animals stacked together in the journey to their death...

Right?

Wrong!

A spinning sawblade about to slit the throat of one cow in an American industrial slaughterhouse. The cow swinging from the mechanical rack was in the same position 30 seconds before. No humans involved (we don’t want to see the blood, we are not “primitive”). Pure high-class industry…

Cattle just before slaughter in a high-class killing spa of the West… See the happiness in the animal’s eyes…

Who are WE to judge the Chinese for eating dogs and for packing them together to  slaughter them for dietary purposes? We also pack together all sort of animals, feed them anything non-healthy in order to grow them quickly (time is money), kill them in a industrialized inhumane way and then go on and... order a second dish! (let's not forget: we eat too much in the West. It is the job of the Chinese to work for us so that we can have all those goodies we want)

Arrogance.

Hypocrisy.

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Philosophy Wire: Sweden and the hypocrisy of “neutral” states…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-06-17]: Sweden’s FOI (the Swedish Defence Research Agency – subordinated to the Ministry of Defence) has secretly helped Saudi Arabia build a ballistic missiles factory since 2007 [1]. TeliaSonera, a Swedish company (40% owned by Swedish government), has also been reported to provide the world’s worst dictatorships with the technological tools required to spy on their own citizens [2]. Sweden reminds us of something we always tend to forget: when something looks too good to be true, then most of the times it is much worse than you could imagine…

 

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Philosophy Wire: Hypocrites bloggers, Internet, Huffington Post

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-04-01]: The court ruled against a group of bloggers who wanted their share of the money Huffington Post got from their buyout from AOL [source: web news]. Who said that bloggers are “innocent good people who write just for… writing” ?

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Hitler - Person of the Year (or Do you trust media?)

Hitler was declared "Person of the Year" from the "prestigious" international TIME magazine in 1938 (see figure above). And guess what happened in 1939: The new "Person of the Year" was... Joseph Stalin! Of course there is no need to tell you that the pictures of these front covers cannot be easily found today... Mass media always promote specific interests and unfortunately independent journalists can be counted with the fingers of one hand (well, after you cut off the fingers). How much do you trust media today?

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year

Main article: Allies trading with Hitler – Economic games during World War II

KONY: Please do NOT care! We have done enough!

The campaign on KONY has been intensifying as time passes by. But all you Western people, please give Africa a break! STOP "caring" please! Stop being hypocrits trying to "save" other countries from "injustice" when all you are trying to do is just another War... (and maybe to get some more money by selling Kony "kits")

Philosophy Wire: Houston, necrophilia, modern civilization…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-02-19]: Houston is dead and all her albums are now suddenly selling like crazy… Modern civilization…

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Philosophy Wire: Putin, US, UK and hypocrisy…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-12-24]: Anti-Putin rallies are reported extensively in western media [source: BBC News, CNN News]. Countries like US and UK which either ignore large protests or simply crash them, are now giving democracy lessons to another country. How typical… An old saying says “The thief is the one who shouts louder in favor of the police”…

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Philosophy Wire: Oscar, tomb, hypocrisy…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-12-01]: The new tomb of Oscar Wilde was revealed, since the existing one was “eaten away” from the kisses of people visiting him [source: BBC News]. Weird being people are. When someone lives in a different way than they are used to, they attack him. When he is dead, they can’t stop filling his tomb with kisses…

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Philosophy Wire: Protection of sharks, hypocrisy of humans

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-11-20]: Environmental organizations argue that the measures agreed by ICCAT for the fishing of tuna and the protection of a shark species (which is considered collateral damage as it is often caught in the same nets by accident) [source: web news]. The protections of other species many times go hand-in-hand with the “I do not want to be in the same place with the animal I want to protect”. Who wants to be in the same waters with a shark (especially an endangered one)? We have seen “friends of the environment” in outdoor activities protesting against the wild bees who bother them while doing their picnic. The “protection of the balance of nature” is much different from “keeping 10-20 sharks alive in the seas somewhere far away from me, in order just to be called ecologist”…

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