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My name is Thor Andersen. I hold a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy with a minor in electronic music from the University of California, Santa Cruz. I was awarded honors in the major.

I play guitar in a surf rock group based out of San Diego, CA called Monsters From Mars.

Articles of Interest

• Adolf Eichmann - "Transportation Administrator" for the Final Solution, a bureaucrat who was held morally accountable for obeying orders—acquiescences to hegemoic ideology, which is arguably the moral situation of complacent first world beneficiaries of the global marketplace.
• Anarcho-primitivism - an anarchist critique of the origins and progress of civilization.
• Bohemian Grove
• Cognitive dissonance
• Cosmopolitanism - [reminder to self: this article is pretty weak. edit it, especially the critique section]
• Cultural genocide
• Diogenes of Sinope - so consistentl in his skepticism that when asked, 'if there is no truth, what should the philosopher do?' replied only with a wiggle his finger.
• Eleatics - arrived at the fundamental truth that the All is One.
• Existentialism, criticisms of
• Folk psychology
• Four humours - special fluids associated with the four basic elements of nature, that were thought to permeate the body and influence its health and a person's personality.
• Globalization - the upshots of which include cultural genocide, slave and sweatshop labor, environmental destruction, animal exploitation, and—perhaps most devestating—the revaluation of "human" life to marketplace terms.
• Halldór Laxness - writer of Independent People and other novels, poems, etc.
• Harmonices Mundi
• Hegel - according to whom the ultimate goal of history was to reach a state approximating that of 1830s Prussia (which happens to be the time he was writing his philosophy).
• Heraclitus
• Herman Melville
• Hippasus - sentenced to death by the Pythagoreans for revealing the secret of irrational numbers.
• Instrumentalism
• Language death - An estimated 50-90% of Earth's more than 6,800 living languages will go extinct within the next 100 years. These cultures aren't dying out, but rather being pressured to abandon their languages and ways of life and assimilate into the capitalist mono-culture.
• Lemuria
• Logical fallacies (a list)
• Marketplace
• Nietzsche, Friedrich
• Nihilism - human existence is without meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value.
• Phlogiston theory - an obsolete scientific theory of combustion.
• Phrenology - is a discredited theory that claims to be able to determine character, personality traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head (reading "bumps").
• Situationist
• Synaesthesia
• Telepresence
• Terror_management_theory - the implicit emotional reactions of people when confronted with the psychological terror of knowing we will eventually die.
• Ultimate fate of the universe
• Waldsterben - forest death
• Weltanschauung - Worldview