The Reality They Invent to Feed the Power They Crave
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For a certain part of the population, perhaps bereft of rituals and practices designed to help them transcend the crude, cruel and ambiguity-generating rhythms of... Read more.
A Note to My Well-Credentialed Friends
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Are you as a member of the well-educated Western elite class prepared to explore the possibility that members of the sociological cohort to which you belong are... Read more.
The Full Secularization of the Doctrine of Original Sin
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Perfectly healthy people were now considered “fallen” in the health sense, and basically told the only way they could be redeemed, that is, permitted to recover... Read more.
The Merchants of Moral Panic
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Let’s resolve now to not let the Covid warriors merely fade away, using our imaginations to find ways of making it as uncomfortable as we possibly can for the... Read more.
Vaclav Havel and the Semiotics of Public Masking
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To reject the ideological schemes of “reality” imposed from above to instead embrace the most true and fundamental impulses of life is precisely what those wonderful... Read more.
What It Means to Experience “Social Death”
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After quite consciously using the enormous moral and rhetorical force of the government and media to label a third to a half of its own citizens as social pariahs,... Read more.
The Treason of the Healers
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During the middle years of the 20th century, the social privilege, deference and power previously granted to clerics, and then to writers, was bequeathed to the... Read more.
The Frightened Class
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For most of recorded time prosperity and education have been the gateway to a life of relative freedom from worry. But now, the people who most enjoy these benefits... Read more.
Contrived Spectacles of “Protecting and Caring for the People”
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Does it seem normal to you that, in a dramatic reversal of historically predominant moral logic, the press harshly questions those who most want to preserve the... Read more.