Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Even if you don’t haven’t read the book or seen the Kubrick-directed movie, you’ll know the familiar scene from A Clockwork Orange featuring Alex with his eyes forced open, made to stare at re-plays. While I don’t condone strapping down any bridge players, one thing that can be taken from the image is that seeing…

A few weeks ago, somewhere between one month leading into the next, one of our neighbors had let us know that they discovered the body of a deceased cat in their yard – presumably having fallen from a tree, with the neck broken on impact. More or less everyone in the neighborhood knows us as…