demonvaska

"The history of philosophy is the history of succesive and non-identical retreats. Philosophy first tried to discover the ultimate categories of the world; then the absolute categories of reason; while we, as knowledge accumulates, see more and more clearly philosophy's vulnerability: because every philosopher must regard himself as a model for the entire species, and even for all possible sentient beings. But it is science that is the transcendence of experience, demolishing yesterday's categories of thought. Yesterday, absolute space-time was overthrown; today, the eternal alternative between the analytic and the synthetic in propositions, or between determinism and randomness, is crumbling. But somehow it has not occurred to any of our philosophers that to deduce, from the pattern of one's own thoughts laws that hold for the full set of people, from the eolithic until the day the sun burns out, might be, to put it mildly, imprudent."

"Simulated drowning is a very effective way of getting someone to confess to something. If you remember it helped us catch all those witches in the 1600's."

"I had a conversation with an elderly gentleman in Kazakhstan over a couple of vodkas and he proposed a new route via the north of the country which I suggested involved a lot more kilometers but he suggested to me that my route via the south involved a lot more wolves."

Part of the 'Movies You May Not Know' series.



No sensible being could ever call this a good movie but despite some appallingly bad dialog, an uninspired plot and some cheap special effects it was nevertheless amusing to watch. The actors take a delight in chewing the scenery to a bloody pulp and occasionally the movie finds the right mixture of camp and adventure. It's certainly an improvement over the original comic strip which was virulently racist and anti-Chinese.