My friend Phil Paine deserves some kind of designation as a great Canadian eccentric
The only thing preventing this is that the country is full of them.
But really, this is inaccurate. Phil is a truly original thinker, the most original I have ever met. He and I have sometimes worked together, with him coming up with the unexpected insights and me reorganizing them into a form acceptable to normal intellectuals and scholars. What I have done with Phil may be some of my most important work.
A few days ago I went over to his blog at PhilPaine.com and found that Phil
had reorganized it to feature its most important content, his Meditations on Democracy.
Go have a look.
The only thing preventing this is that the country is full of them.
But really, this is inaccurate. Phil is a truly original thinker, the most original I have ever met. He and I have sometimes worked together, with him coming up with the unexpected insights and me reorganizing them into a form acceptable to normal intellectuals and scholars. What I have done with Phil may be some of my most important work.
A few days ago I went over to his blog at PhilPaine.com and found that Phil
had reorganized it to feature its most important content, his Meditations on Democracy.
Go have a look.
