Saturday, December 29, 2007

Post-Communist democrazy in academic BG

A couple of days ago two people in a state academic place received official warning that they would be fired. For posting their protesting letters in a philosophical web forum. The letters protested against the imbecile system of evaluation at the academic place and were sent to the managing heads of the place. Instead of discussion the warnings, actually in the form of semi-official threats followed. Cheers!

Cake, "Frank Sinatra"

We know of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations,
A faintly glimmering radio station.
While Frank Sinatra sings stormy weather,
The flies and spiders get along together,
Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record.

Beyond the suns that guard this roof,
Beyond your flowers of flaming truths,
Beyond your latest ad campaigns,
An old man sits collecting stamps
In a room all filled with Chinese lamps.
He saves what others throw away.
He says that hell be rich some day.

We know of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations,
A faintly glimmering radio station.

We know of an ancient radiation
That haunts dismembered constellations,
A faintly glimmering radio station.
While Frank Sinatra sings stormy weather,
The flies and spiders get along together,
Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record.

Monday, December 03, 2007

RICHARD III

NO BEAST SO FIERCE BUT KNOWS SOME TOUCH OF PITY.
BUT I KNOW NONE, AND THEREFORE I AM NO BEAST.

Richard III

William Shakespeare

Sunday, December 02, 2007

The "no regrets" illumination

Now, that I look back, and I see the things in a quite different way that I used to. In fact, it is clear that it does not matter whether A would do a mistake first or B. Yes, it is true that B's mistake might have been influenced by A's one but not necessarily. For if A was a kind of unmistakable would not have committed a mistake in the first place. Time could show that once thought to be wrong choices are actually good ones. And therefore the attitude of no regrets is the adequate one and not the one that goes on digging and trying to rebuild the past with a back date. People should be as ready to acknowledge the mistakes of the others as their own. It is fair. Thus fuck you, past, welcome dynamic present. Pardon my French, if you know what I mean (and you probably don't).