To Starve our Feudal Overlords of Attention
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As Covid showed us, an unusually high number of those trotted out to us by our “noble” class as possessing inordinate wisdom are little more than self-interested... Read more.
Lives Unleavened by the Gift of Wonder
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The rational and calculating human mind’s ability to deliver something approaching personal contentment to you has been massively oversold during your lifetime.... Read more.
In Praise of Semantic Warfare
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Could it be that most of us, in fact, are pre-programmed to surrender our agency at the first sign of a canceling putdown or threat of ostracism, however absurd,... Read more.
How Modeling Can Go Terribly Wrong
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The intellectuals bombarded the populace with empirically unproven models of their own making about many things connected with Covid. And when the vast majority... Read more.
The Drumbeat of Trauma-Inducing Events in Our Lives
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If left unaddressed, the top-down trauma our “leadership” class seems bent on serially inflicting upon us leads to widespread psychic numbing and a nation of... Read more.
The Social Meaning of Hortatory Yard Signs
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Growing up in a nice suburb and studying at a brand-name university one can really come to believe that life is inherently well-ordered, and that “doing well”... Read more.
Stuck to Our Own Metaphors
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If there is anything that the Covid phenomenon has shown us, it is that in the third decade of the 21st century, it is precisely our most putatively literate classes... Read more.
The Art of the Encounter
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That still leaves us with 65-70 percent of the population who are not quite ready to accept the reality of the intense disdain our predatory government and corporate... Read more.
Hi Doc, How’s It Going?
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Given that you and the majority of your colleagues showed no moral and intellectual ability to mount a counterargument this time, what makes you think you’ll be... Read more.
Experts have Abdicated Their Responsibilities
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The social class that has received university education during the last thirty years has taken control of our institutions without assuming the responsibilities... Read more.
The Cunning Tyranny of Abstract Notions of the “Common Good”
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One of the cardinal precepts of today’s Machiavellians and their esoteric court philosophers is the imperative of rewriting the operative rules early and often... Read more.
Let’s Stop Investing Rhetorical Flourishes with Legal Weight
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We now face an entrenched elite, backed by the full might of the Deep State and its well-researched tools of cognitive conditioning who see us as a largely unindividuated... Read more.