Philosophy Wire: Sleep tight… War is nigh…

Love is not the primary reason humans developed music. A new evolutionary theory of the origins of music argues more evidence supports music coming from the need for groups to impress allies and foes, and for parents to signal their attention to infants. They also argue against the theory that making music arose out of a need for social bonding, or that it is 'auditory cheesecake' a fancy evolutionary byproduct with no purpose. [1] War. Death. Love. Pain. Life. Peace. The origins of music are not notes or sound. The origins of music is noise and silence. Fighting eternally. To provide meaning to what does not have. To stripe things of the meaning the void of nothingness gives them. Listen to the music. Can't you feel it? The only way to dream of smiling is to let yourself cry...

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Philosophy Wire: Hitler’s house. Memories lost in the dust…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2017-09-29]: Austria has demolished the house of Hitler. [1] Millions of dead crying. Now as dust, travelling to deep space. A star will soon be born. A sun will soon light again a cosmos. Darkness will come again. That house will forever be there.

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Philosophy Wire: Nuclear war. Nuclear war? It has already happened! It has already happened?

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-09-08]: A research tries to find out what would happen to Earth if a nuclear war errupted and 100 nuclear bombs exploded. The results seem disastrous. (among others, the destruction of the ozone layer - is it a coincidence that this happened after the nuclear tests of the Cold War?) [1] But... wait a minute! There HAVE BEEN so many nuclear explosions on Earth! To be exact, with all the nuclear tests of US, Russia, China and other nations, more than 2,000 nuclear bombs have exploded on Earth, under the earth or in the atmosphere! So maybe the research is a little bit off. Maybe we already experience what it says. To the multiple... Look at the obvious. It is so hard to detect...

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Philosophy Wire: Hello War! Meet your daughter.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-01-21]: New US warships will be fueled on water. [1, 2, 3] Bad intentions are luring behind our comfort. How good can that be? We may not like to admit it, but almost all progress we currently enjoy is the daughter of war. Literally.

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Philosophy Wire:Victory is defeat...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-11-26]: Victory defeats you. Only he who needs to fight continuously, stays sharp at all times…

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Philosophy Wire: Are wars over? Nuh...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-09-19]:

Are great wars over? "Experts" disagree. [1] No matter how hard I want to believe that we are progressing in this matter, I understand that "war" - in ANY form - is in our nature. It is in Nature's nature! We are at constant war with others, with our self, with our environment... And the point is not to win. But to let go...

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Philosophy Wire: War - A recent "conquest"...

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Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-08-26]: War seems to be a very "recent" conquest of our "civilization". [1] In the old days, no tribe attacked another in order to kill. Murders inside a tribe/ society always used to be more than killing of this kind. Until the world wars... Then we really show the world how much progressed and civilized we are...

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Philosophy Wire: Gulf War, Mind War...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-06-30]: Scientists found out that the Gulf Syndrome is based on biological factors. [source: web news] I kill innocent people > I have psychological problems > My brain changes BECAUSE OF there problems > A scientists sees this > The scientist derives conclusions.

Stupidity is unbeatable.

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Philosophy Wire: Eichmann, ethics, causes…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-05-24]:

Eichmann: I am not an anti-Semite.
A truth we cannot accept. [1]
We want to believe that dreadful deeds need a cause.
We are frightened to the possibility that such a cause does not exist...

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Philosophy Wire: Greek Orthodox, USA, EU, Islamists…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-04-24]:

One Greek Orthodox and one Syriac Orthodox archbishop abducted in Syria. [1] While some people are fighting for their faith, others (USA, EU) are fighting for their right to rule the world. Remember this day when "civilized" countries support Islamist terrorists...

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Philosophy Wire: Terrorist attack, USA, children.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-04-16]: Hundeds of children were killed in drone (UAV) terrorist attacks from the US in Pakistan. (see here and here) The world is shocked as the... Oups! My mistake! I was supposed to write about the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon which killed one child. My bad. Sorry.

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Philosophy Wire: Theater of War, Sophocles, Self.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-12-22]: Theater of War presents readings of Sophocles’ Ajax and Philoctetes to military and civilian communities across the United States and Europe. These ancient plays timelessly and universally depict the psychological and physical wounds inflicted upon warriors by war. By presenting these plays to military and civilian audiences, the organizers hope is to de-stigmatize the psychological injury of the veterans, increase awareness of post-deployment psychological health issues, improve the psychological health of the soldiers. [source: Theater of War] Sometimes science is not enough. Sometimes art is the only way of accepting reality. A reality which is as illogical and as incomprehensible as art. An art which can be indeed a path towards our self.

 

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Philosophy Wire: nEUROn. A dog that barks…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-12-06]: The first European UCAV made its maiden flight.  [source: web news] Too much advertisement for nothing. US is already using UCAV in its Secret Services (RQ-170 Sentinel) and in its Navy (X-47B) without announcing it as idiots. A dog that barks a lot…

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Philosophy Wire: European Courts, UCK and why Justice = Politics.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-11-29]: A UN war crimes court, the International criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, acquitted Ramus Haradinaj, former Kosovan prime minister and member of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), of war crimes committed during Kosovo's independence war (1998-1999) after a retrial in The Hague. Serbia reacted intensively, protesting for the Court being prejudiced against her. [source: web news] Once again, an international court shows how Justice is a synonym of Politics… Φεῦ ὦ Εὐρώπη!

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Philosophy Wire: The last Nintza…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-11-24]: Nintzas were once upon a time feared assassins. Now they are about to become extinct. The last Nintza Grandmasters of Japan are now determined to end this line of tradition. Both Kawakami (of the Koka ninja clan) and Hatsumi (of the Togakure nintza clan) are united in this: Neither will appoint anyone to take over as the next Ninja Grandmaster. [source: 1, 2]

Our society has changed (to the worst in this matter). The need to kill secretly has been eliminated. Governments and people in power now "kill" others (physically or psychologically) out in the open. Why hire nintzas to do the job when a Wall Street broker or a CEO can do the work legitimately and publicly without anyone taking notice or protesting?

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Philosophy Wire: Dolphins, army and the permanent inferiority of technology

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-11-16]: The US Navy plans to retire its dolphins who have been taking part in mine warfare operations for decades, with robots from 2017. [source: BBC News] Technology has the unique capability of being PERMANENTLY inferior to life in every sector. We have cars, but none of them has abilities that are considered as standard for a horse – the car does not return the driver back to his home alone after he has fainted. How much idiot must someone be to think that a robot can replace intelligent self-conscious beings in such operations?

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Philosophy Wire: Robotics, battle and the 3 Laws... Which 3 laws??

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-10-01]: New robots will soon start fighting along humans in the battlefields. The new generation of battle androids has more autonomy and can even fire against the enemy without guidance. A characteristic example can be seen in the photo above which depicts a robotic system developed in Korea by Samsung which has the ability of autonomous operation - being able to shoot people in the North-South Korea borders "on its own". [source: BBC News]  It seems like the 3 Laws of Robotics are just a blurred recollection from an era much more romantic and humane, then the one we currently live in...

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Philosophy Wire: Activism, dying, knowing…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-08-28]: An Israeli court has ruled that the state of Israel was not at fault for the death of US activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli army bulldozer in 2003. Ms Corrie's family had brought a civil claim for negligence against the Israeli ministry of defence. The judge said the 23-year-old's death was a "regrettable accident" and that the state was not responsible. She had been trying to stop Palestinian homes being pulled down in Gaza. Judge Oded Gershon, presiding at the court in the town of Haifa, said Ms Corrie had been protecting terrorists in a designated combat zone. He said the bulldozer driver had not seen her, adding the soldiers had done their utmost to keep people away from the site. "She [Corrie] did not distance herself from the area, as any thinking person would have done". Rachel Corrie's parents, Cindy and Craig, looked dejected after the verdict was read out. Friends and supporters in court offered hugs and handshakes. But nine years after their daughter was killed, they have failed in their attempt to get the Israeli army to take responsibility for Rachel's death. Speaking after the ruling, the family's lawyer was quick to say they would appeal against the decision in Israel's supreme court. For Cindy and Craig Corrie, that will prolong what must have already been an exhausting and expensive process. Their legal fight is believed to have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. They regarded their daughter as a peace activist, passionately behind the Palestinian cause and trying to protect civilians. On Tuesday, they listened to a judge tell them the activists she was working with were acting as human shields for terrorists. He ruled the state of Israel did not have to pay any damages [source: BBC News].

They go to war but without expecting that they might die.

These are the modern “activists”…

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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: Iraq, War, Heraclitus

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-12-18]: Americans have withdrawn from Iraq. So many wars, so many dead and still no result. The Iraqis still live in the same horrible conditions and still hate the Americans. The Americans still have not learned anything concerning their mistakes in foreign policy making. War is the father of all things, said Heraclitus. In this case war must have been sterile…

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