by Jason Thomas Kocher August 19th, 2010 - Culture » Philosophy » Politics » Society »
There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free…
To sing & dance & love (dance and love)
There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil…
That we can rise above (rise above)
Who cares if you’re so poor you can’t afford
To buy a pair of mod a go-go stretch-elastic pants…
There will come a time [...]
by Jason Thomas Kocher July 17th, 2010 - Culture » Philosophy » Politics » Society »
Here is a call to outlaw Obscenity Laws on the grounds that they are the only obscenity.
Full Disclosure: I don’t feel that I am defined by these things…but I do like sex…and I do like porn…
…and for me, the question of whether something is artistic or not is moot. In less controversial realms, I think Revenge of the Nerds and [...]
by Jason Thomas Kocher March 24th, 2010 - Politics »
It may well be true that very many self-described libertarians tend to be of a such a stubborn independent bent that they themselves might suffer from their aversion to community. However, adopting the life of a cane-shaking, iconoclastic hermit is not necessary of or necessarily connected to the philosophy of libertarianism.
Libertarianism is not a personal philosophy. It is a philosophy [...]
by Jason Thomas Kocher February 26th, 2010 - Philosophy » Politics »
In debate over hotly contested legislation in the last few years, politicians have more and more spewed forth noble, heartwarming, selfless pleas to the effect of: “Now is not the time for ideology. Government must do what works and abandon what does not work.”
In my attempts to imagine a government actually taking actions without ideological foundation, I was made to [...]