Interpretation is not the same as translation, although some will confuse the terms, by design or otherwise. I am in the midst of listening to Dan Carlin’s podcast, Hardcore History, Show 48 — Prophets of Doom. It is a recounting of the European period often called the Reformation, a time most characterized by a dramatic…
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Lifelong Learning
Nobody asked but … Yesterday I started a new term at OLLI at UK. My first class is a meta-class about how to build an OLLI course. Btw, OLLI stands for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. My preliminary idea is to do a discussion group centering on classical liberalism, but my mentor believes that using that…
Law Is Not a Product of the State
Nobody asked but … Today I am sharing a link with you: Law Is Not a Product of the State. This topic is connected to one of my favorite themes. All human behavior arises for a reason, but that behavior must include a process to reach the object of a reason. The trouble is that…
Words Poorly Used #40 — Commemoration
Looking at the etymology of this word, we can deduce that it means a group recalling something together. Unfortunately, here in the nation, it means remembering mythology together so we can forget individually what has happened in reality. Today, we commemorate the events of war and our fellow nationals who have served and died in…
Common Core
Nobody asked but … If you laid all the educators in the world head to toe, they would never reach a consensus on what was a common core. In the small HBCU (about 2,000 students) where I used to teach Computer Science, you couldn’t even get two professors teaching the same course to come up…
Words Poorly Used #39 — Self-Esteem
Lately I see many occurrences of the term “self-esteem” being used in a pejorative sense, and less frequently in a congratulatory way. The phrase is intended, however, to describe self estimation (neither good nor bad). All philosophies end in knowing one’s self and one’s place in the scheme of things. The estimation of these matters…
The Usual Suspects
Nobody asked but … We had a primary here in Kentucky yesterday. Who won and who lost? The usual suspects. Kilgore
A Law of Nature
Nobody asked but … A voluntaryist may frequently talk about the laws of nature in an abstract way, urging that we consider natural law as good and artificial laws (legislation, governmental regulation, rules, authoritarianism, even in many cases traditions and religions) as bad. The fact is that natural laws are only inevitable, having good or…
Words Poorly Used# 38 — Utopian
The people who would gainsay voluntaryism would claim it is utopian. First of all, everything is utopian in that it is moving in a direction that someone sees as good, and it may or may not be based on false premises. It may come to pass, and it may end well or end badly. But…
Where in the World Is The Ukraine?
Nobody asked but … Actually, somebody did ask, and an excellent facebook friend posted “I like this: Only 1 in 6 Americans surveyed could find the Ukraine on a map of the world.” There is somewhat of a reason why we don’t know where the Ukraine lies. FDR and Churchill blithely tossed it into the…