tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63678485936123194152024-02-22T04:41:32.681-08:00The Three SriRants from a Mental AsylumThe Three Srihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06829520534095202978noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367848593612319415.post-74237496157121061732020-04-29T12:05:00.001-07:002020-04-29T12:05:22.738-07:00Irrfan Khan: Remembrance and Reflections (Podcast)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Three Srihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06829520534095202978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367848593612319415.post-14207313931394795532020-04-26T10:04:00.002-07:002020-04-26T10:04:20.953-07:00Maqbool: The Story of a Half-Insane (Podcast)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Maqbool is one among many. I came across him few years back. He is a half-insane among all the sane men I have met.<br />
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The Three Srihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06829520534095202978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367848593612319415.post-87380533225115793202020-04-25T11:27:00.002-07:002020-04-25T11:33:22.767-07:00The Monologue: Podcasts by Rants From A Mental Asylum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Three Srihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06829520534095202978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367848593612319415.post-11876156576818714422019-07-16T10:51:00.001-07:002019-07-16T10:52:28.275-07:00On Historical Reason <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"…Man alienated from himself encounters himself as reality, as history. And, for the first time, he sees himself compelled to occupy himself with his past, not from curiosity nor in order to find normative examples, but because he has no other thing. Things are never done seriously but when, truly, they are absolutely necessary. For this reason, the present hour is the time for history to re-establish itself as historical reason.<br />
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Until now history has been contrary to reason. In Greece the two terms “reason” and “history” were opposed. And until now, in effect, hardly anyone has been concerned to search in history for its rational substance…. Hence the expression “historical reason” must be understood in all the rigor of the term. Not an extra-historical reason which appears to fulfill itself in history but, literally, a substantive reason constituted by what has happened to man, the revelation of reality transcending man's theories and which is himself, the self underlying his theories<br />
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The Three Srihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06829520534095202978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367848593612319415.post-87961381575352970142019-07-08T08:02:00.000-07:002019-07-08T08:07:09.831-07:00Are we experiencing un-freedoms in the guise of its opposite?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is a multitude of forms of this appearing of un-freedom in the guise of its opposite: in being deprived of universal healthcare, we are told that we are being given a new freedom of choice (to choose our healthcare provider); when we can no longer rely on long-term employment and are compelled to search for a new precarious job every couple of years, we are told that we are being given the opportunity to reinvent ourselves and discover our creative potential; when we have to pay for the education of our children, we are told that we are now able to become 'entrepreneurs of the self," acting like a capitalist freely choosing how to invest the resources he possesses (or has borrowed).</span><br />
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The Three Srihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06829520534095202978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6367848593612319415.post-50826510306768634392019-07-06T10:18:00.003-07:002019-07-06T10:18:41.280-07:00To Know... is To Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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