Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I Am Not A Silent Poet
Happy to report I had five poems accepted, and published, earlier this year in the online anti-war journal, “I Am Not A Silent Poet.” Happy to share them here: 1. Heavy Legs I find myself disturbed at the sound of children laughing, running: my own grandson– his friends. I find myself touchy, testy, withdrawn. I…
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Trump Pardons War Criminals: Will Bush, Rumsfeld and and Cheney Be Next?
I realized this morning I should probably thank Donald Trump—which is not something that comes easily for me—for showing me the difference between a “military mindset,” and a “martyr mindset.” I realize I have unfairly lumped them together here on this website for a decade or more. My bad. Live and learn. As mentioned in…
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Gandhi Meets Abu Bakr al Baghdadi
As Gandhi reminded us, again and again and again, “The means and the ends are same.” It is for this obvious reason, and many other obvious reasons, that we should not be too quick to gloat about the forced suicide-murder of the terrorist Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and his three children. It’s worth repeating that…
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Should U.S. Soldiers Refuse Trump’s Orders to Go to The Border?
Many Americans, perhaps most Americans, would say yes, of course, U.S. soldiers should refuse any order to fight refugees at our borders. Trump’s first threatening to send soldiers to the border was a political stunt—a trick he pulled out of his hat hoping to garner a few votes before the mid-term elections. Who knows, maybe…
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What Does a Dad Tell His Son?
MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE LIED The teacher asked me to come to the class and talk about flying. He was my son’s teacher and the jet’s always popular. How fast? How high? Pretty standard stuff. I wore my flight suit and handed out stickers even though they weren’t toddlers. One kid asked if I killed…
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