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The Analog versus the Digital Worlds
This piece is going to be an exploration of my own thoughts on the analog versus digital worlds from both a physical and a philosophical point of view. It will be an exploration of being “real” or “not real”.
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Nationalism and Globalism Revisited
To understand the modern system of sovereign nation-states, it is necessary to understand the origins of this system dating back to the early 1600s. Before that time, sovereign large cities were often autonomous from what we might call nations.
The Biodefense Oligarchy and Its Demographic Defeats
Two decades ago, factions argued that biowarfare threats were so significant that biodefense responsibility needed to be removed from the purview of the uniformed military and placed within NIAID under NIH and under HHS.
The Biodefense Oligarchy and Its Demographic Defeats Read Journal Article
The Demoralizing Downward Spiral of Algorithmic Culture
Caught in the “measure-grab-and-control” tyranny of the algorithmic mind, they cannot imagine how those they see as lesser than them, might, if left to their own devices, be capable of generating greater efficiencies than their vaunted oh-so-rational systems.
The Demoralizing Downward Spiral of Algorithmic Culture Read Journal Article
The Limits of Transactionalism
When was the last time you talked with a young person about what it means to live a good life as it is conceived of outside the parameters of economic gain or the game of acquiring reputation chits?
When Information Had Weight
We’re still learning how to integrate these technologies into our lives, much like we did with search engines and the internet – remember when answering a simple historical question required a trip to the library?
Is Peace Possible Today?
As we the New Year, when one traditionally comes up with ‘resolutions’ for the year ahead, and of initiating creative projects, one has to ask: is all of this just Heideggerian ‘idle talk,’ or is peace a realistic possibility?
The Light That Shines above the Void
The Christmas story, beyond the current themes of presents, food, and self-gratification, provides a window on how distant the world’s dominant value system is from that which recognition of meaning in life represents.
Merry Christmas to the Merchants!
We should all do more to celebrate our local merchants. They connect the community through hard work, great risk, tremendous creativity, and service, and yet too often, they do not get the appreciation they deserve.
The Banalization of Education
Working within the classic canons of liberal reformism, we can surely institute changes that will slightly improve the educational experience of students. But it seems to me that incremental reforms of this type will no longer suffice.
The Season for Living
There is a happiness that only comes from keeping menace at bay. It is what has made Christmas so joyous – a festival of warmth and light reclaimed from the frost and the night. A hearth of all things human.
War, Revolution, and Ambition
Arendt’s elaboration on ‘deterrence’ (1990, p. 15-17) is equally relevant today, insofar as its focus on the (nuclear) arms race during the Cold War similarly applies to the conflict in Ukraine, but with important differences and specifications.