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Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-06-04]:It was always something that troubled me. Why do all communist states have zero aesthetics? Why are they colorless? Why are they grey? Well, a fellow-philosopher in the family made me realize the truth: Colours imply emotions. And emotions are too dangerous for a regime which wants you all “equal” and obedient…
Again and again… I just wanna feel this moment!
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-05-27]: Syrian political cartoonist Ali Ferzat, shown earlier this month at the Oslo Freedom Forum, says pens have the power to topple dictators. The self-taught artist has mocked authority since he was a young boy. His hands were broken by the Syrian government recently, before he managed to leave the country. [source: CNN News] If regimes fear of a pen, then how powerful are they really?
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-12-03]: Australia has become the first country in the world to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes. From now, all tobacco company logos and colours will be banned from packets. They have been replaced by a dreary, uniform, green/brown, colour accompanied by a raft of anti-smoking messages and photographs. [source: BBC News] There will always be people who think they can tell others how to live their lives. I am not a smoker my self, but I find the idea of someone dictating how others should live appalling. Today it is smoking. Tomorrow it could be the “I have sex” or “I sing opera” or “I play Playstation”…
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-08-18]: Moscow has banned Gay Pride parade for the next 100 years. Human rights activists are protesting around the world [source: BBC News]. But why do they protest? What is exactly that which non-homosexuals should tolerate? Why should we have annual parades of homosexuality and transexuality while all other parades (even those related to important national anniversaries across the world) are reduced or completely abolished? When does the fight for human rights ends and the oppression of the silent majority from a never-ending shouting minority begins? Homosexuals have now every right to vote, to walk along the street, to dominate TV and media and to get married. What more would they want? Gay Pride has changed from being the symbol of a fight to a mere street happening. Homosexuals around the world are trapped into the same trap feminists were trapped some time ago: after having win their game, they continue to move on with great speed and outside of the court field…
Is that really happening? What is the matter with “progressed” societies? Foucault would be turning over in his grave with this. Insanity as a tool of society to impose rules and codes of conduct…
The dream of every murderer is to be characterized as “insane” so as to get better off with the sentence. However modern Norway cannot let that happen! If you do something different in the “paradise” called “civilized” countries, you have no other choice but to “be” insane! Illogical! Out of your mind! It does not matter that naming you insane will lead you better off to a nice psychiatric resort instead of a prison. It does not even matter that you yourself claim that you are perfectly sane and have deliberately planned what you did months before.
Because we cannot handle exceptions to our nicely formed rules, we are too eager to tag anything irregular as “insane”. Breivik cannot have really thought of what he did. He cannot have really wanted to do what he did.
You MUST be insane!
So that all the others can remain “sane”…
Read more for the role of psychiatry in modern society at the “The Dictatorship of the science of Psychiatry” article.
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-06-12]: “We should do what is best for the majority!”, someone shouts. But who really believes that the majority is consisted of “very clever people” ?
