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I have the Cola Boy "7 Ways to Love" record. St Etienne did production, but the track was actually by a person named Jesse Chin . . . . And not sure if I'd call Cola Boy "shambient." I think they were straight-up pop rave . . . . Great record, in any case

very possible that I got the threads mixed up

I might add that I can see how lawyers are not unlike priests, mediating between the Flock and the Law, keeping the former largely ignorant of what is in fact accessible to all, that is, the Law . . . . At the same time, lawyers properly strive for consistency and integrity in the Law, and for...

And finally I disagree with K-Punk on the following, which could have been lifted directly from Kant: This is "modern" rationalism, not "ancient" rationalism. Plato shows us true rationalism in his philosophic dialogues cum plays. Socrates is a "character" who talks to different...

Much more dicey, however, is K-Punk's contention that what people "want" is often Not in their own "interests," that what is in fact in people's interests is to submit to the discipline of serious thinking and get in tune with uttunul. This contention is not without surface appeal. We say, to...

Apart from the opening sally, in which K-Punk declares that there is no "spontaneous spirituality" but that "if there were it should be crushed without mercy," this passage is completely and utterly on the mark . . . . But I remain unconvinced that there is no such thing as "spirtuality."...

In any case, I don't think that Bush's actions are in any way "good." Therefore, he is not a "good" man. As for Blair, he certainly exhibits more virtues than Bush does (e.g., Blair is quite articulate and verbally resourceful). Therefore, Blair is at least a "better" man than Bush . . . ...

this thread is probably dead now, but i only now had time to check this site. as regards the above comment, i was contrasting kant w/ any number of philosophers, not trying to compare hobbes to heidegger. only in the light of kant's radical abstraction away from all that is "given" do hobbes...

i can't really discuss kant without first consulting a book. so, i'll refrain from characterizing his position. however, i think you're slighting aristotle big time. that is, i don't see how a person could read the "nicomachean ethics" and not come away with a more VIVID understanding of what...

Not to state the obvious, but I think that people come here for different reasons and make different kinds of contributions. Several appear to be highly learned, as though they knew karate. Probably because they do karate for a living. Others lead lives that are less exalted, having abandoned...

Given the quagmire in Iraq, the rift with Germany and France, the loss of "soft" power, the decline of the dollar, the budget deficit, the trade deficit, the imminent crisis of Social Security, the growing cultural divide between North and South/urban and rural, the continued failure of...

I agree with the substance of Jules' and K-Punk's position in this matter. However, I disagree with Jules' reading of Aristotle. Aristotle's ethics is action-centered, not agent centered. It is Kantian ethics that is agent centered . . . . What matters, in Kant, is that a person have "good...

so, i'd say (1) into music, (2) openness to drugs, use of drugs, (3) personal bearing/manner, and (4) style of dressing

and in the States, there's also what is known as "Asian Cool." But that seems to go more to what outsiders perceive as aloofness, rather than from the supposed space in the head, the inner vibe

and yet lots of introvertibly cool people don't keep things in perspective, and are quite easily fazed. for instance, miles davis. no definition of cool is satisfactory if it cannot account for miles davis, on the one side, and the cool dread carribean guys, on the other. plus, all the white...

i think the above gets pretty close to the core. people who make music or who are really into music are, so to speak, on a different "vibe" than others, or at least this is how they imagine themselves (and how we, or I, imagine them) . . . . the vibe comes from being "more aware of our...

"I'm trying to remember, Tim has an older brother or something who was a real scenester, was in some band. Back when I did Plant Bar on mondays my friend Kevin dj'd happy hour, he's always been a standard bearer of that type of stuff, he put out the Love Is All single recently, anyway, he had...

Was there a connection between the Zap Club in Brighton and the Shark Club, which I believe was located beneath the boardwalk? Also, I'd be interested in reading about this era in Brighton nightlife. Has there been anything written on the subject? What kind of music was played at the Zap Club?

definition of spiritual discipline = (1) the protestant who, fearing the wrath of god, shuns the voluptuous exteriority of Italy and makes solid his inner faith through work, labor, toil; (2) the slave who, faced with death by the lord's hand, renders his preconceptions about himself more than...

as for Catherine's remark that "WASP spiritual discipline" sounds dreadful . . . . well, I'd probably never choose it for myself (too unpleasant), but K-Punk is basically correct when he argues that spiritual discipline is necessary for cultural achievement by the individual (as opposed to by...