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Determinism

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-11-3 · 4 Comments

Everybody knows the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor and the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” (Sung by Don Henley, ©1995) [...]

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The Incredibles (review)

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-02-14 · 2 Comments

Pixar. The Incredibles. 2004. 9/10 Last night, I finally saw The Incredibles. A while ago, I read “a review”:http://www.objectivistcenter.org/articles/dkelley_rff-the-incredibles.asp of the movie by David Kelley of “The Objectivist Center”:http://www.objectivistcenter.org/index.asp, an organisation that promotes and investigates the philosophy of Ayn Rand. It assessed the movie pretty accurately, so I won’t go into detail: read “Kelley’s review”:http://www.objectivistcenter.org/articles/dkelley_rff-the-incredibles.asp [...]

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