Trump’s proposal to ideologically screen immigrants would be unjustified and immoral Government has no business deciding people’s ideology—whether citizens or not.

My new oped for the OC Register: www.ocregister.com/2023/09/17/t...

However, there’s good and bad philosophy, and good and bad teachers of philosophy. The difference can make or break you.

For both good philosophy and good teachers, I recommend university.aynrand.org.

Philosophy is so tremendously useful for every aspect of human life. The way in which studying philosophy has enriched my life is impossible to describe.

This example of an epistemological issue having direct application to daily life and mental health is only one example.

As someone who has suffered from anxiety in the past, I wish I had read this at that point, just as succinctly put. It would’ve made an enormous difference. Never heard a therapist put it this way. (And this is not even a book on psychology, but on epistemology!)

The cure for anxiety is logic.

I keep coming back to these pages from Harry Binswanger’s book “How We Know.” There’s a lot of useful applications for what HB says here— one of them is if you place it in the context of anxiety disorders, which detach your thoughts from reality.

I just moved last weekend and I feel you. What an awful thing.

I’ve come to greatly dislike Twitter. Not because of Musk himself, but IMO TW was in decline before he took over and rapidly went down the hill after— whatever the reason.
In any case, what are the chances of Bluesky developing an engaged and vibrant (and hopefully less vitriolic) community like TW?