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	<title>Matthew T Grant &#187; Ethics</title>
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		<title>It Doesn&#8217;t Get Better, You Have to Make it Better</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/02/03/it-doesnt-get-better-you-have-to-make-it-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commiserating with a friend about jobs a few years back, it turned out that while we both expressed dissatisfaction with our then current situations, we were also pessimistic about finding attractive alternatives. [Ironic aside: Neither one of us is at the job we had then. For my part, the gigs I've done since have been, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Disappointing Film About Norwegian Black Metal</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/12/18/a-disappointing-film-about-norwegian-black-metal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched the documentary film Until the Night Takes Us and was disappointed. I really think it fails on every level. Neither a true &#8220;history&#8221; of black metal (Norwegian or otherwise) nor a revealing portrait of the genre&#8217;s main innovators (Fenriz of Darkthrone and Varg Vikernes of Burzum), the film never even raises the questions it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consensus, Hierarchy and the #Occupy Movement</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/10/22/consensus-hierarchy-and-the-occupy-movement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/10/22/consensus-hierarchy-and-the-occupy-movement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street; Consensus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine posted this video on Facebook: It explains the consensus process used by the Occupy Wall Street folks. I lived in a cooperative house in college that relied on this process to make all decisions, so I am familiar with both the theory and the practice behind it. The basic notion, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fundamentalism vs. Liberalism</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/09/26/fundamentalism-vs-liberalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just realized that in two recent posts, one on class warfare and the other on the Web, I raised the issue of &#8220;neutrality.&#8221; In the first instance, I was considering the neutrality of the state and specifically the liberal, constitutional state. If &#8220;equality before the law&#8221; is the ideal behind this state form, then, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Articles of Faith</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/06/07/articles-of-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/06/07/articles-of-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The amount of money one makes is the clearest indicator of one&#8217;s value to society. Success or failure is solely determined by an individual&#8217;s intelligence and strength. Suffering results directly from one&#8217;s own personal choices. There are no accidents, only instances of weakness, ignorance and indiscipline. The purpose of the state, society and culture is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odd Future in a World that Allows Rape</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/05/24/odd-future-in-a-world-that-allows-rape/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/05/24/odd-future-in-a-world-that-allows-rape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 22:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In 12 years, there have been 6 million dead men and women in Congo and 1.4 million people displaced. Hundreds and thousands of women and girls have been raped and tortured. Babies as young as 6 months, women as old as 80, their insides torn apart. What I witnessed in Congo has shattered and changed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unions, Business and the State</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/05/13/unions-business-and-the-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/05/13/unions-business-and-the-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 15:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I listened to this episode of the Diane Rehm Show last night and became increasingly depressed about China&#8217;s human rights record. While already long aware of China&#8217;s ongoing crackdown on Falun Gong adherents and artists like Ai Weiwei (where is he?), and, frankly, not having very high hopes for the defense of human or civil rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two and a Half Thoughts on Charlie Sheen</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/03/02/two-and-a-half-thoughts-on-charlie-sheen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/03/02/two-and-a-half-thoughts-on-charlie-sheen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently become obsessed with Charlie Sheen. This obsession—which is far from mine alone—must be understood against the backdrop of current events. On the one hand, there is the spectacular political turmoil in the &#8220;Arab World,&#8221; whereby the successful regime change in Tunisia and Egypt has been followed by increasingly violent responses from the state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/01/25/the-myth-of-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/01/25/the-myth-of-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times ran a story on Friday about the spotlight Glenn Beck had cast on an &#8220;obscure CUNY professor,&#8221; Frances Fox Piven, and how this had attracted some very hostile attention from Beck&#8217;s followers. One fine fellow had left this comment on Beck&#8217;s site, The Blaze, &#8220;Somebody tell Frances I have 5000 roundas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing It Safe</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/01/24/playing-it-safe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old friend accused me of &#8220;playing it safe&#8221; on my blog. Apparently, writing about death metal, however aesthetically outlandish the music or my love of it may be, is of little consequence, big picture-wise. Of course, I thought that my post on communism and change was kind of edgy—not to mention my frequent advocacy [...]]]></description>
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