In this society, they love to neuter you — to domesticate you, to neutralize you, to passively subjugate you — by forcing you to act only through them. Your natural impulses are wrong, they say, so let us fix it for you. Through this example we can see the weird paternalism of modern society, which [...]
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Wasted years
In the modern age, we avoid actual controversy because it’s unsociable. As a result, our debates are basically drama about minor modifications to the default path. That default path is inevitably one of decay for two reasons. First, if you aren’t shooting for something, the many modifications made over time get out of sync with [...]
Expectations define reality
When we plan, we project a vision of the future in our minds. We then filter out everything but what fits into that vision, and in so doing, make our expectations come to pass. Extrapolating this, we can see that how we shape our civilization now determines what it will grow into in the future. [...]
All the broken people
Voyeurism is prevalent in our society – in fact, it’s accepted. Where Dear Abby used to be the indulgence of bored housewives, things like Love Letters and similar blogs give people a view into the lives of their neighbors. It’s interesting reading into the relationship issues some people have – many are valid problems that [...]
Deconstructing our sense of self
A lot of what we do here at Amerika is to re-mix news articles. By changing context, we show you where the ideas discussed are applied. An idea by itself, in abstract, seems both universal and applied nowhere — an echo of our own self-perception, by which we are perceivers and only secondarily realize we [...]
Net neutrality: not what you think it means
As part of the progressive dumbing down of our society, we live by political “issues.” These are clever symbols for problems we need to solve. They are usually framed by whoever comes up with them first. This framing puts a spin on them so that it’s hard to disagree. When one side calls itself “pro-life,” [...]
New boss, same as the old boss
People think the media has changed rapidly. It’s the generational gap at work: Having graduated high school in the 1990s, I now think that what kids are getting into in the 2000s is insanity. Same will be true of people who are graduating now looking down at the class of 2020: “It wasn’t the same [...]
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