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“I don’t know what to believe any more”

March 26, 2015 by William Eaton

False Claims / Empty Beliefs: Why is this not a comedy? A month or two ago it was brought to my attention that, as there are Holocaust deniers, so there are now those (in Iran, for example) who say that some or all of the “Charlie Hebdo” events in Paris did not happen. The events were, in this view, in some way staged as part of the battle between Islam and the West. I will quote right below from […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: advertising, Charlie Hebdo, Colin Powell, FBI, Iran, James Madison, lying, media, truth

The Death of Free Speech

February 16, 2015 by fritztucker

(Warning: The above video depicts or describes the murder of several individuals, including children.) The recent shooting in Copenhagen, like most terrorist acts, was reprehensible, unforgivable, ineffective, and immature. At the same time, holding a free speech conference in Copenhagen seems somewhat masturbatory. According to the Committee To Protect Journalists, no Danish journalists have been killed since at least 1992; whereas the most deadly country in the world for journalists in the last two decades has been Iraq, with Syria in distant […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: civil rights, Copenhagen, ethics, free speech, media, politics, war

Reading: 27 January-2 February 2013

January 28, 2013 by William Eaton

From Tyler Peckio, Zeteo Contributor 28 January 2013 Hollywood loses the plot Every Thursday for the past month myself, and a few friends from my undergraduate studies, meet up and discuss an agreed upon book. We always make an effort, no matter how abstract the content is, to establish connections between the material and our current lives (whether in an existential, political, economical, or societal way). Philosophical material should be read as a living, breathing, constantly evolving thing—not as something existing in […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Adorno, critical theory, culture, film, guns, Jorge Luis Borges, literature, media, psychology