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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Generational Dialogue in the Age of Machines Read Journal Article
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.
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.
Concientización and the Rebirth of Critical Thinking Read Journal Article
Experiencing the diversity of the world’s cultures enables the traveller to savour different customs without relinquishing the thought that these all belong to humanity as a whole. No globalistically homogeneous world could offer that.
The ultimate battle isn’t just for truth – it’s for the human spirit itself. In the end, their greatest fear isn’t that we’ll reject their manufactured world – it’s that we’ll remember how to see beyond it.
USAID and the Architecture of Perception Read Journal Article
The world has changed in many ways since March 2020. And the world needs to change a lot more, especially our human institutions, if we are to prevent the tyranny of Covid from being repeated.
Like Augusto Pérez, the European “leaders” were angry to discover that they were essentially fictitious figures who act daily at the mercy of their puppet masters in Washington. They have unleashed a grand concert of yips and yaps.
In our time, we have witnessed a homogenisation of culture under the hegemonic sway of a supposedly ‘liberal’ worldview, which has turned out to be anything but. In Gramsci’s terms, it has assumed the shape of a hegemony promoting ‘conformity.’