“The ancient postulate of perennial philosophy - the inseparability of value and reality - is psychologized into the demand that reality must satisfy us; the denial of the necessity of this demand is followed by the exclusion from philosophy of most of its traditional problems and the "raising to the dignity of philosophy many trivial and often foolish questions"”
Wilbur Marshall Urban

The Intelligible World: Metaphysics and Value

Bruce Schneier: Trust, Security, Privacy, Society

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An excellent talk … except I felt he was too gracious and careful with his hosts:

In the end he speaks of hard-power turning into soft-power … got me thinking about femininity.
And also mentions that organic-food is a kind of defensive strategy against unhealthy food … loved that … continuing to feed my unwritten post on organic.

via Fred Wilson

Also from Bruche Schneier (came to me a day later) The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership via Matt Mullenweg

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