‘INSPIRING QUEER WOMEN’ from “THAT CAN’T BE TRUE!” (Seattle NOW) – with a contribution by Youth Director of the API, Stella Crouch

“That Can’t Be True!”

is a new monthly feature on the Seattle NOW website where we’ll share young feminist opinions on various images, articles, poems, books, and experiences. All of the content that will be posted caught our attention at one point and quite literally made us think, “that can’t be true!”

French Lyrics to Leonard Cohen’s ‘Bird on the Wire’ (translated by Serge Lama):

Paroles : Vivre tout seul / Bird on the wire 

Je veux vivre 
Tout seul 
Libre comme 
Un oiseau sur son fil 
Sans famille 
Sans femme 
Et sans amis 

Je veux vivre 
Tout seul 
Rien que moi 
De face et de profil 
Sans visa 
Sans papiers 
Et sans pays 

J'en ai marre 
De toujours faire le beau 
De sourire 
Quand j'ai mal dans mon coeur 
J'en ai marre 
Je veux monter plus haut 

Old Policies - by Stella Crouch This poem was first published by the National Organization for Women (NOW) in the April 2021 edition of That Can’t Be True!

Sensationalism isn’t a formula for success 

It is an overused devise to attract attention 

I yearn for escapism 

We are loaded with tropes and antiquated traditions 

Debt by David Barrows

Introduction

Personal and public debts are contentious issues. Emotions with respect to debt can be very strong. There may, as well, be religious connotation. What are the emotional issues of having a debt obligation? Have we borrowed for consumption or for purposes of productive investment? The emotional issues complicate the scientific exploration of appropriate levels of private and public debt obligations.

Ronen Grunberg on Epicureanism (by John Smithin)

Hello. My name is John Smithin and I am the Executive Co-Director and a Fellow at the Aurora Philosophy Institute (API) here in Aurora, Ontario. On 10.04.2021 our friend and colleague Ronen Grunberg gave a very interesting talk to the API on ‘Epicureanism’. Several of our members who are philosophy majors remarked that this is a topic that is rarely, if ever, covered in university courses in philosophy. Listening to Ronen, I am convinced that it should be.

An Innovative Approach to Policy Development Executive Briefing Note: President-Elect Strategy to Solve Inequality Lise Hebabi, PhD Director & Senior Consultant Generativ.ca consultants inc.: David Barrows Aurora Philosophy Institute

ABSTRACT

 

A New Way to Think About Capital by leonidas Zelmanovitz Editors Note: The following essay presents part of the basic argument from the author’s new book, The Representational Theory of Capital.

Arguably, there is no concept more difficult to understand in economics than that of capital. However, capital is central to economic reasoning, so we must understand it rightly. In order to use this concept, economists tend to identify capital either as “goods” or “funds.” The conception of capital as “goods” considers capital as a collection of heterogeneous things that enhance the productivity of human labor—anything from an ax to a web browser could qualify.