Showing posts with label the 'Forms'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the 'Forms'. Show all posts

Monday, July 11, 2016

Identity Politics and Abortion Argument

Is this post, on the idea of a universal positive right to an abortion, an example of or does it contain any instances/examples of "identity politics"?  In the good sense of the term as used by those who profess its value?

At least in style it seems to me not; maybe in some sense about the content, since it directly concerns only part of the population, it is.  But so if it does count as identity politics for its content--despite or without regard to its style--then I only have a problem with the style of identity politics.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Procrastination as a Collective Action Problem

It looks like I'll be widening the scope of this blog very significantly pretty early, with a post on philosophy that is not quite political.

It was appropriate to post about procrastination in light of the absence of any new posts for a considerable time for a young blog.  Hence, a post on the form inherent in procrastination.


So, procrastination is a collective action problem among the many different time-slices of a person.  The you that exists in any particular moment values the quality of its own experience more than that of the you that exists at any other moment; in other words, there is a preference for immediate consumption over future consumption which is inversely proportional to the ability to delay gratification.