Redmond’s opposition makes sense, as the animation capabilities Canvas provides would conflict with Microsoft’s plans to speed adoption of its Silverlight platform, which affords web authors many of the same capabilities using a proprietary plug-in and commercial development software— Microsoft Wants to Separate the Canvas 2D API from HTML5 (via feedly)
“You don’t have to do anything. Let it do you!”
“…character is not existential, it is performative. It is not rooted in a single human trait but must be produced from the conscious cultivation of those good traits that all humans possess…”
In one of my favorite reads this last year, Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, author Stuart Brown talks about play as “an un-realized power that can transform our social and economic lives.”
“Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination. Therefore her only concern is her own sincerity.”
Verse Twenty-Five Not all spiritual paths lead to the Harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more. Why not trust the plainness and simplicity of the Integral Way? Living with unconditional sincerity, eradicating all duality, celebrating the equality of things, your every moment will be in truth. ~ Translated by Brian Walker ~
Yet the belief that the right of the community can trump the rights of the individual - and that this is not incompatible with liberalism but exactly what humanizes it - really is a distinctly Canadian intuition. It is argued in different ways, and with different emphasis, by the influential McGill philosopher, Charles Taylor - who as an N.D.P. candidate in the 1965 elections, was defeated by the newcomer Trudeau in his first run for Parliament - and by the essayist John Ralston Saul and the Queens University philosopher Will Kymlicka. We are not, and have never been, the Canadian collectivists argue - in conscious opposition to older Anglo-American traditions - the rational individuals of liberal contract theory. No man is an island, and rule made for imaginary islands ignore the fragile ecology of the actual archipelago. We are people who live in communities, and our sense of who we are derives from what the people around us are like. To exalt the individual and his rights at the expense of nurturing the tenuous threads of togetherness leads to violence, alienation, political apathy, and the growth of crazy movements that can supply, in moonshine form, the sense of solidarity that pure “rights” liberalism can’t - the very traits that Canadians see in a nearby country, they name no names— Canadian Confucians (via feedly)
Yet the belief that the right of the community can trump the rights of the individual - and that this is not incompatible with liberalism but exactly what humanizes it - really is a distinctly Canadian intuition. It is argued in different ways, and with different emphasis, by the influential McGill philosopher, Charles Taylor - who as an N.D.P. candidate in the 1965 elections, was defeated by the newcomer Trudeau in his first run for Parliament - and by the essayist John Ralston Saul and the Queens University philosopher Will Kymlicka. We are not, and have never been, the Canadian collectivists argue - in conscious opposition to older Anglo-American traditions - the rational individuals of liberal contract theory. No man is an island, and rule made for imaginary islands ignore the fragile ecology of the actual archipelago. We are people who live in communities, and our sense of who we are derives from what the people around us are like. To exalt the individual and his rights at the expense of nurturing the tenuous threads of togetherness leads to violence, alienation, political apathy, and the growth of crazy movements that can supply, in moonshine form, the sense of solidarity that pure “rights” liberalism can’t - the very traits that Canadians see in a nearby country, they name no names— Canadian Confucians (via feedly)
