Existentialism |
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Well, it all started off with a desire to look fashionably emaciated,
maybe wear a beret, and upset as many people as possible by wittering on
about angst. Existentialist philosophy, unfortunately, doesn't seem to
offer any of the above. But it still has its interesting points.
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Bhuddism |
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I read Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance and it made
a lot of sense; that was a few years ago. Then I got into Kerouac and after
reading The Dharma Bums I decided maybe to look into this
Buddhism lark. It seems that I've been unconciously practising a good
whack of it for the last few years, though I've some reservations about
pure consumption (avoiding drugs and alcohol) and vegetarianism as yet
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Anarchy |
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Anarchism: nothing to do with gunz'n'bomz (well, except by historic
association), nothing to do with the Anarchists' Cookbook, and not really
about nastiness at all. Indeed, the essential precept as I see it is
'let's all get along, why don't we', with strong overtones of 'who needs
a government anyway'. But it's not the chaotic mess you might take it for.
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