Recent content by nazarbaz

Both political science and sociology could be fundamental research if you want them to be so. They would be mere verbiage though, if the "problem building" is mediocre at first. Nothing really deep in humanities and social science could come from a problem solving agenda : this is what a...

The worst thing I ever saw in my intelectual journey was a bunch of engineers, physicists and medical practitioners trying to think about society, humanities and art... A really awfull spectacle... Life, I mean "we", are not a technology...

I'm a sexist : I believe in the superiority of women in every aspect of human life... They would be godlike creatures if they weren't biologically programmed to make babies... I'm a sort of heretic believer though... Qui aime bien, châtie bien...

I'm not sure if we, as a species, really know what we're doing around here (l mean the universe), in a manner that allows us to make sensible or intelligent "propositions" about ourselves. Can we stop funding the noise and the gesticulations we make only by being alive ? Hum... Cosmology is a...

If physicists were more interested in philosophy, they would know that the diversity of interpretations is unsolvable and that there's no point to choose one of them over the others. My "personal view" (and I say this with a bit of detachment and irony) : if you could make a different choice...

Maybe what we call time (the flow of change from past to future states) is simply an equivalent to a quantum fluctuation of space: the degrees of freedom in which one single moment occur. Ok, I'm speculating.

If you don't buy the "universe from nothing" hypothesis you'll be stuck with some sort of eternal or infinite physical structure that has no beginnings and no endings to trigger the epiphany of our universe or many other ones... The two contradictory hypotheses (although it's not obvious that...

It's actually what I've said... Once you become an "analytical thinker", you realize that it is all phrases and words, "authority" and "rebellion" alike... You don't have to buy them anymore, just look at them with irony and detachement... Listen, yes, but don't believe...

Look buddy : there's only two intelligent ways to deal with "authority" and "power" : exert it as wisely as you could or get away from it as far as you can (true geniuses can do both at the same time). Those who want to "challenge", to "obey" or to share power are generally those you have to...

The democratic bias tend to stress on who is voting in the political organizations called democratic governments and societies : nowadays, informed analysts, and almost every intelligent person, know that the democratic ideals are mere theory or simply flawed. "Peoples" are not the main...

In this times of pure madness... Quatuor pour la fin du temps... To the limits, really...

A beautiful blues from the desert sands...

That's what gnawa is all about. The full effect cannot be reached before several hours of playing or listening and the guidance of a master. Some jazz musicians, like Randy Weston, got interested in it for the same reasons you mentionned and made very good stuff of it. Thank you for sharing.

This thread could be a lot more interesting to an archeologist from the future than the object itself... A civilisation sinking in an ocean of useless stuff looking nonetheless for some meaning and purpose to what it did not so long ago...

This guy here...