After Thanksgiving dinner we watched Tao Ruspoli’s Being in the World. 

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a documentary that didn’t piss me off. A nice introduction to Heidegger and a healthy level of skepticism towards our more abstract and over-intellectual look at nature and the world.

So nice to leave MIT for Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday.  

Also,  the movie was inspired by former MIT Prof. Hubert Dreyfus and this semester I’ve been TAing a seminar with Lee Perelman who’s kind of the Greek philosophy expert. I wonder if they know each other and I wonder what the spiritual and non-ivory tower Lee will think of the movie, and if he will agree with its interpretation of Plato.