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Christopher Hobson

Below a selection of some news pieces, articles and podcasts that have caught my attention. I might try doing notes like these more regularly if there is interest. The full name is ‘Very Intense Tropical Cyclone Freddy’. From FT: What is remarkable is that the cyclone circled around and hit Madagascar and Moazambique <em> twice </em> . It came back for a second shot. And add in that Malawi is experiencing its worst cholera outbreak on record.

Christopher Hobson

A collection of fragments related to the writings of Franz Kafka. If he was able to see aspects of the world taking shape a century ago, what might his work suggest now? It strikes me that it has to do with that space where absurdity and brutality meet.

Christopher Hobson

Simone de Beauvoir, <em> The Ethics of Ambiguity </em> (1947): - Robert Oppenheimer, Hearing Before Personnel Security Board (1954): - Bill Joy, ‘Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us’ (2000): - Victoria Krakovna, ‘Risks from general artificial intelligence without an intelligence explosion’ (2015): - Ezra Klein, ‘This Changes Everything’ (2023): - Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher, ‘ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution’ (2023):

E. I. Bryukhova

The topic of lies is of considerable interest in linguocultural analysis. The article discusses the role of lies in the language behavior of the Japanese in connection with the most important Japanese socio-cultural attitudes. Lying in Japanese culture is characterized as a social phenomenon without negative components. Japanese culture, which reflects the main features of traditional societies of the Far East, has its own special socio-cultural space with the dominant role of Shinto beliefs. Shinto is characterized by following the natural and traditional order of things and the absence of a firm scale of assessment of good and evil. Lies for the Japanese do not create a rejecting effect: they are not condemned harshly and are not punished and lying is not a source of internal experiences and torment. The morality of the Japanese is situational and intuitive, moral virtues are often replaced by a sense of shame, and the Japanese need to maintain harmony, so lies are allowed and accepted favorably. A lie is even necessary as an element of etiquette, polite (decent) behavior to preserve harmony in the group. The Japanese tend to behave relating to the surrounding group members, so the use of easy, inconspicuous, and kind lies may be caused by a specific situation, by the rules of group behavior. In addition, the Japanese are not characterized by the anguish of conscience, internal awareness of their guilt, or reasoning about immorality — the main motivating point for them is what others will say. And people around them will recognize it as acceptable and necessary. Lying is closely related to the concept of tatemae — an external model of behavior demonstrated before another person. A person, hiding behind a facade, under a mask, says what the listener wants to hear. That behavior seems a little insincere or duplicitous but is usually used to avoid conflict and ensure smooth social communication, rather than to trick or deceive. One who does not use the rules of tatemae may hurt the feelings of the person he or she is talking to or make the conversation unpleasant by revealing too much. Lying can take the form of polite and socially acceptable silence when the speaker hides his disagreement and true thoughts from the listener.

Christopher Hobson

Quotes taken from ‘Putin’s war’, <em> New York Times </em> (16 December 2022). Leo Tolstoy, <em> Bethink Yourselves </em> (1904). Ken Jowitt, ‘Undemocratic Past, Unnamed Present, Undecided Future’ (1996). Ken Jowitt, ‘Setting History's Course’&nbsp;(2009). Adam Curtis in <em> The Guardian </em> on his recent series, <em> Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone </em> (2022). Fyodor Dostoevsky, <em> Notes from Underground </em> (1864).Subscribe now

Charles Seymour

Thomas McHugh Reed

E. Y. Mullins

Sergey Martynovich

J. Randall Groves, Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion

Piotr Szydłowski

Antoine Vergote

Philip Goodchild

Anton Geels

Alison R. Marshall, Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion