All Warfare Is Based on Deception
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‘All warfare is based on deception’ may be applied to our present situation, where a very powerful enemy, who has taken the initiative from the start of the... Read more.
Science, Society, and Stability
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The natural sciences have a significant destabilising effect on culture and society. This was noted by social thinker and futurologist Alvin Toffler decades ago... Read more.
History, Technology, and a Balanced Attitude
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One can hardly speak cogently of ‘human development’ if the ‘human’ in this phrase is replaced (and obliterated) by ‘technical’ or ‘technological.’... Read more.
Why Denial Persists
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I am convinced that the uncritical use of an electronic apparatus like a smartphone is an important factor in this lack of concern, which equals an implicit denial... Read more.
The History We Make Today
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‘Progress’ in the traditional sense under these circumstances? Not likely. Today it seems more advisable to do our best to make history by imagining a position... Read more.
Do People Want Precious Freedom?
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Social theorist Bauman wondered about freedom – do people really want to be free? Can they bear the challenges and responsibilities of being free? He approaches... Read more.
Savage Reservations
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Unless we confront and fight these psychopaths, we shall all end up either in their obediently compliant perversion of a society, or in one of the internment camps... Read more.
Elite Envy as a Civilizational Toxin
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Despite their wealth, they lack the capacity for simple enjoyment, and consequently, their envy for the rest of us knows no bounds. After all, we continue meeting... Read more.
Two Sides of the Nihilistic Coin
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If nothing has intrinsic value and is merely the outcome of human creation in the past, this opens up the exhilarating opportunity to create one’s own values.... Read more.
Nihilism Strikes with a Vengeance
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Today our concerns about nihilism have less to do with capitalism than with the cynical nihilism evident in the actions orchestrated by the group of multi-billionaires... Read more.
Philosophy of Law for the Modern World
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Would it not have been unimaginably exhilarating if this court verdict and (hypothetical) sentence had binding power? But it does not. Hence, the struggle continues,... Read more.
Is ‘Avian Flu’ Anything to Fear?
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The very fact that, as Mercola indicates, avian flu has been ‘weaponized’ in various ways that make it far more likely for humans to be infected by it, is a... Read more.