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	<title>Matthew T Grant &#187; existentialism</title>
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		<title>It Doesn&#8217;t Get Better, You Have to Make it Better</title>
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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>You Live in a World Without You</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Garcia once said something like, &#8220;You have to remember that we live in a world without a Grateful Dead.&#8221; It&#8217;s an interesting perspective. When you are the Grateful Dead, you are known to millions and adored by many. You are an object in the world of your fans and followers. But in your own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/01/25/the-myth-of-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Publish and Perish</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/03/04/publish-and-perish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many reasons why my academic career didn&#8217;t pan out, but among them is undoubtedly the fact that I didn&#8217;t publish very much. For example, I never turned my dissertation on the Baader-Meinhof Gang into a book (though part of my research did end up in an obscure, Canadian journal called, Border/Lines). When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man against Nature, Nature against God</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/12/24/man-against-nature-nature-against-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative critic Ross Douthat recently took James Cameron and Hollywood to task for rampant pantheist sympathies writing that pantheism &#8220;represents a form of religion that even atheists can support.&#8221; While I believe he is mistaken to equate, as he does, pantheism with &#8220;nature worship&#8221; &#8211; the latter being more akin to polytheism or animism and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epistemology versus Ethics</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/12/06/epistemology-versus-ethics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A local, recently gender-reassigned nanny drove a car which featured the following bumper sticker: While sympathetic to the sentiment expressed, believing, as I do, that reality, taken in the totality of its sordid, mundane, and astonishing details, is nothing if not outrageous, I felt nevertheless rankled. Said rankling arose from my even stronger belief that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Joker</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/06/25/the-joker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may be late to the party, but I always have a good time. See, I final caught Heath Ledger&#8217;s swan song in The Dark Knight and, like many people, his performance as the Joker really got under my skin. Weird, damaged, and menacingly off-kilter, Ledger&#8217;s Joker embodies everything that Western rationalism apparently opposes and [...]]]></description>
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