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Pilgrimages to Nowhere?
What I did not understand was just how disrespectful of transcendental thinking consumer culture is, and how it can turn the search for human and esthetic discoveries into an endless series of economic transactions.
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Power Outage, Inner Power
April 28th will be remembered as the largest blackout in European history. Power went down in the whole of continental Spain and Portugal. Whatever the cause, we can see it as a symptom of something deeper and more far-reaching.
Is “Freedom” a Non-Word?
It is my hope that one day soon our nation will wise up enough to do the heavy lifting which is required to reclaim what is rightfully ours, and what is absolutely a word unto itself – Freedom.
The Existential Threat of the Existential Threat
Climate change is an existential threat. Misinformation is an existential threat. Inequality is an existential threat. The next pandemic is an existential threat. Our democracy is facing an existential threat.
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Transhumanism and AI: An Ideology of Death
Transhumanism aims at superior intelligence, superhuman strength, and unending life. But because it is grounded in a false notion of what it means to be human, if we embrace the transhumanist dream, we will find ourselves in a nightmare dystopia.
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Node without Consent
The fundamental question isn’t whether this technology will be developed – it’s already underway. The real issue at stake is whether we’ll maintain autonomy over our own biology as these technologies emerge.
How Postmodernism Became Posthumanism
If there is one thing we should be clear on today, it’s that the origin of this plague of imbecility is the Enlightenment, a movement of civilizational annihilation in the service of predatory imperialism.
In Praise of Elegance
Elegance matters, not only because it makes the world more aesthetically pleasing, but because it reminds us in these times when obscenely powerful elites are trying for their own nefarious reasons to convince us that we are all pretty interchangeable.
The Limits of Immanent Critique
Immanent critique is the ultimate academic flex. It shows that you understand your opponent’s argument better than they understand it themselves. It disarms your opponent without a clash of swords (metaphorical or literal).
Generational Dialogue in the Age of Machines
The acting of becoming a mindful and hopefully ethical being has, for millennia, centered on a very simple dialogical process: one in which the child learns to view sensorial inputs in light of the wisdom of those who preceded him.
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Complacency Is Dangerous
While I love seeing DOGE upend the government and expose both wasteful spending and heinous criminal operations masquerading as bureaucracy, we can’t let our guard down. Traditional methods won’t work – the deep state has its claws in everything.
Concientización and the Rebirth of Critical Thinking
The most profound idea that I learned was concientización. There isn’t an exact equivalent in English. Concientización is the process of becoming aware of how the world actually works. It’s about learning to break free from mental colonization.
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