Is blogging outdated?

May be the answer is yes. While I didn’t maintain a blog for several years I felt that a website is necessary for keeping my online presence in order. It seems like an old school project to maintain one in the social media age with video streaming being the norm and yet here I am.

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Electronic (digital) NIC, biometric data collection and fundamental rights

The introduction of an electronic identity card for all Sri Lankan citizens have come back to the discussion table. It is not a new initiative but the so called "minister of digital stuff" of previous government as well had commented on the initiative. It is unclear what pressing issue this initiative aims to solve as far as Sri Lanka is concerned. Furthermore, there are reports of a plan to introduce methods of identifying individuals using biometric data. It is also said that a powerful neighboring state will provide a grant or a loan for implementing this system. My own opinion is that Sri Lankans have no real need to have an eNIC not to mention the biometrics based identification. What we already have in our NIC and the security is sufficient for ordinary citizens to function in the current society. Of course recording biometric data of convicted criminals may be a different issue. One eNIC proponent had mentioned the need for implementing voting for Sri Lankans working ...

A short exchange on the philosophy of Quentin Meillassoux

RB: Hello, I just finished reading After Finitude. I think its a very exciting book as it attempts to access and come into direct contact with the ”thing in itself”, escaping the Kantian prison. Meillassoux claims to achieve this by saying that contingency is the absolute principle behind everything, the very thing itself. My problem is that Meillassoux does not explain why contingency is the the thing itself. If this is so there must be some evidence or some logical argument to prove this. Why can the laws governing the universe change at any moment? Perhaps I missed something. Me: His argument is that the so called laws are not enforced by anyone. If one says that there is some condition that keep those stable then he can ask the previous question on the new 'law enforcement agency'. This becomes an infinite regression which discards the existence of any such entity. So he resorts to the eternal danger faced by all laws of sudden collapse. RB: Ok, so he disca...

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