In March, Model Minority recorded "Vincent Chin." for our upcoming mixtape THE TIGER SONS, in the hopes of continuing to use music to educate our listeners and friends about the struggles and victories of Asians in America.
With Thursday being the 29th anniversary of his death, we decided to release "Vincent Chin." early, before the rest of the project, as a sign of respect for those who have come before us, and in the hopes that the tragedy that ended his life would never be forgotten.
The video clips that play during the song are selections from Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña's 1987 documentary Who Killed Vincent Chin? and the instrumental is from Fort Minor's Kenji.
-Model Minority
Grand Master Chu
D-One
Inglish
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Regarding the End of the World.
[a response to Gary Gutting's NY Times blog, Epistemology and the End of the World]
I moderately disagree with this article - if we buy into what he's saying, I think the scope of the argument may quickly broaden to the point where we lose any sort of certainty that's not grounded in what Gutting considers to be epistemically grounded rationale.
This includes, I suspect, not only future and even theologically dubitable events (as the Rapture distinctly is), but also present and even past warranted belief, including concepts such as salvation, the existence of God, the revelation of God to man, etc. I think that his argument easily applies to the status of Scripture, belief in my own spiritual experiences, etc.
So, yes, Camping's predictions are indeed "ill-advised". But Gutting has just pointed out the obvious; Camping's predictions failed. He provides no alternative schema for justification.
What would be interesting would be his providing a counterexample, some sort of spiritual belief that does turn out to be warranted or grounded. That would draw a clear line dividing epistemically warranted and unwarranted spiritual belief. But he doesn't - leaving me suspecting that he would a priori regard all spiritual belief as resting on epistemically shaky grounds.
I moderately disagree with this article - if we buy into what he's saying, I think the scope of the argument may quickly broaden to the point where we lose any sort of certainty that's not grounded in what Gutting considers to be epistemically grounded rationale.
This includes, I suspect, not only future and even theologically dubitable events (as the Rapture distinctly is), but also present and even past warranted belief, including concepts such as salvation, the existence of God, the revelation of God to man, etc. I think that his argument easily applies to the status of Scripture, belief in my own spiritual experiences, etc.
So, yes, Camping's predictions are indeed "ill-advised". But Gutting has just pointed out the obvious; Camping's predictions failed. He provides no alternative schema for justification.
What would be interesting would be his providing a counterexample, some sort of spiritual belief that does turn out to be warranted or grounded. That would draw a clear line dividing epistemically warranted and unwarranted spiritual belief. But he doesn't - leaving me suspecting that he would a priori regard all spiritual belief as resting on epistemically shaky grounds.
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