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John Bardi teaches philosophy and religious studies at Penn State-Mont Alto. He is also a musician and has been playing blues and rock guitar since 1961. Author: "Conversations With A Philosopher From Another Planet" (available on Amazon)
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
What Might America's Fathers Say Now? The Founding Fathers had assumed a privileged and powerful upper class would be a bulwark against the corruption of the state, not the agents and emissaries of it.
Thursday, April 2, 2009What Might America's Fathers Say Now? The Founding Fathers had assumed a privileged and powerful upper class would be a bulwark against the corruption of the state, not the agents and emissaries of it.
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Are We Finally Waking Up...or Merely Trading One Set of Illusions for Another? Something is happening in our collective mind-space, but what is it? Is it a mass awakening...or merely the sound of people upgrading their illusions?
Sunday, February 15, 2009Are We Finally Waking Up...or Merely Trading One Set of Illusions for Another? Something is happening in our collective mind-space, but what is it? Is it a mass awakening...or merely the sound of people upgrading their illusions?
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Santa, Rudolf, Frosty and the Pollution of the American Mind "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" presents a world in which snooping without a warrant is completely normal. Indeed, Santa snoops in a way that would make even the Department of Homeland Security envious.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008Santa, Rudolf, Frosty and the Pollution of the American Mind "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" presents a world in which snooping without a warrant is completely normal. Indeed, Santa snoops in a way that would make even the Department of Homeland Security envious.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Do We Have to Choose Between Hope and Reality? Is hope a good thing (believing in Obama helps us to join together to be the change we want to see)...or a bad thing (believing in Obama only opens us to the same curses in a different disguise)?
Tuesday, December 2, 2008Do We Have to Choose Between Hope and Reality? Is hope a good thing (believing in Obama helps us to join together to be the change we want to see)...or a bad thing (believing in Obama only opens us to the same curses in a different disguise)?
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Change We Can Believe In or Change Our Beliefs? The core, basic beliefs of a people determine their horizon of possibility, both collectively and individually. This is why big changes in the collective life of a people cannot be implemented if the changes contradict the collective belief structures of the people.
Sunday, November 30, 2008Change We Can Believe In or Change Our Beliefs? The core, basic beliefs of a people determine their horizon of possibility, both collectively and individually. This is why big changes in the collective life of a people cannot be implemented if the changes contradict the collective belief structures of the people.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
We Deserve A Better Class Of People To Be Our Upper Class The notion that the "masters of the universe" provide employment for the rest of us has fallen away, revealing that they do not give employment but rather exploit it. They have been morally busted, and their mug shots reveal a group of greedy and shamelessly self-serving individuals who seek as much as possible for themselves no matter what the cost to others.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008We Deserve A Better Class Of People To Be Our Upper Class The notion that the "masters of the universe" provide employment for the rest of us has fallen away, revealing that they do not give employment but rather exploit it. They have been morally busted, and their mug shots reveal a group of greedy and shamelessly self-serving individuals who seek as much as possible for themselves no matter what the cost to others.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Are Social Conservatives Just Like Progressives, Only More So? Surely every progressive knows someone who spouts out odious and hateful political ideas but who is warm, friendly, and engaging in personal life....
Thursday, November 20, 2008Are Social Conservatives Just Like Progressives, Only More So? Surely every progressive knows someone who spouts out odious and hateful political ideas but who is warm, friendly, and engaging in personal life....
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
These Times They Are A-Changin' Our "defaults" are changing. many now blame the Bush administration for screwing things up, but the Bush administration actually succeeded in the context of their "defaults." They intended to gut the regulatory capacity of government, intended to make it easier for special interests to manipulate the levers of power, intended to expand the snooping abilities of the state, and intended to use the techniques of scientific...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008These Times They Are A-Changin' Our "defaults" are changing. many now blame the Bush administration for screwing things up, but the Bush administration actually succeeded in the context of their "defaults." They intended to gut the regulatory capacity of government, intended to make it easier for special interests to manipulate the levers of power, intended to expand the snooping abilities of the state, and intended to use the techniques of scientific...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Why do people who believe in God commit acts of terrorism? Examines the questionable theological assumptions made by people who support killing innocent as an act of service to God.
Sunday, November 16, 2008Why do people who believe in God commit acts of terrorism? Examines the questionable theological assumptions made by people who support killing innocent as an act of service to God.
