Why Denial Persists
I am convinced that the uncritical use of an electronic apparatus like a smartphone is an important factor in this lack of concern, which equals an implicit denial of possible catastrophe.
Death Gods and the Attack on President Trump
I thought of the advocacy for abortion upon abortion…the blurring of the bright line between life and death…the acts of degradation all around us…of obscenities played out in public…of genocidal language amplified in the public arena.
The Fraught Relationship between Science and Power
The biggest breakthroughs in the history of science usually come from the outsiders. So there’s a paradox in that proper science often dies when it makes an unholy alliance with the state.
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The History We Make Today
‘Progress’ in the traditional sense under these circumstances? Not likely. Today it seems more advisable to do our best to make history by imagining a position where humanity can start afresh, but with less innocence.
Do People Want Precious Freedom?
Social theorist Bauman wondered about freedom – do people really want to be free? Can they bear the challenges and responsibilities of being free? He approaches this question from the angle of ‘liberation,’ which is sometimes the prerequisite of being free.
Eradication Fantasies Don’t Come Free
Over the years, I have come to fear people who suggest they are above hate, and its correlates like prejudice and anger, more than I fear people who quite openly assault me with their hostility.
Life among Anti-Life Forces
If anti-life philosophy threatens our most sacred values, then what exactly are those values which it threatens? How can we make sure that we do not lose sight of all the positive actions we can take to nourish their seeds?
Savage Reservations
Unless we confront and fight these psychopaths, we shall all end up either in their obediently compliant perversion of a society, or in one of the internment camps already being built in all 50 states in America ‘for non-compliant dissidents.’
Elite Envy as a Civilizational Toxin
Despite their wealth, they lack the capacity for simple enjoyment, and consequently, their envy for the rest of us knows no bounds. After all, we continue meeting under festive circumstances, chatting, laughing, dancing, singing, and drinking wine.
Triumph of the ‘Mass-Man’
The Pope cannot afford to be a mass-man, but he is one: unable to understand that his job is not to please his flock but rather to encourage them to become conscious of the historical reality of their own existence.
Two Sides of the Nihilistic Coin
If nothing has intrinsic value and is merely the outcome of human creation in the past, this opens up the exhilarating opportunity to create one’s own values. This is precisely what active nihilists do.
We Approach State Singularity
At state singularity, the state becomes society and society is a product of the state. The rule of law may be acknowledged as important in principle while it is rejected in practice.