Many words on this blog have been dedicated to political abstractions, and to attacks on equality, but very rarely do these articles center on showing you what inequality would look like in daily life. Words are tokens. If two people understand roughly the same meaning between the tokens, communication can happen. It still requires both [...]
Posts under ‘Politics’
Conservatism
We suffer from information overload. The result is a total lack of clarity, since we receive so many impressions per idea that they lump together into a hazy definition. Since we do not get a clear statement of what any thing is, we tend to view it backward, from instance to essence. That means that [...]
Business opportunity
Want to hear a business proposition? It’s OK, keep on doing what you’re doing, just hear me out. Every few millennia I come around because I can tell my services are needed. It’s a certain smell in the air, like autumn or the singed scent of worn brake pads. That right there is the smell [...]
Silent world
Schopenhauer famously observed that tolerance for noise is inversely proportional to intelligence. If he is correct, our society has made itself a collective idiot through not only its tolerance for pointless and constant loud sound, but its seeming embrace of it. We might wonder why so few gadgets contain an option to not receive warning [...]
Modernity
Articulation is the process of sculpting concepts in words. It is hard work, both difficult and an endurance test. Not all of us have the time or inclination to do it. As the decades have passed, a growing sense of unease has bubbled up among people in this society. We cannot articulate this sensation because [...]
Do right
The shock of awakening to your actual position in history is overpowering. One minute you were stumbling along believing the convenient half-truths the media, government and socialization put into your mind, and the next… aware of that Rome is falling, the enemy is at the gates, and truth is a rare if not fully demonized [...]
Circle of blame
Two centuries or so ago, we decided to cut our society free from a center. No longer would we unify ourselves with transcendental values such as culture, values, spirituality and aristocracy, but we would focus on the body. Specifically, the equality of anyone who had one. Ever since that time, our society has been a [...]
Under the microscope
We live in a post-totalitarian age. Much like post-modernism is a decentralized form of modernism, post-totalitarianism is a decentralized version of the powerful regimes of the 20th century. To be decentralized, a post-totalitarian state must be self-enforcing. It achieves this through social disapproval. Nothing is against the rules, except that which is not sociable. You [...]
Jobs are jails
An unfortunate fact of modern life: we have replaced callings with jobs and careers. “Jobs” are things you attend where other people tell you what to do. In order to insure that you do not become too valuable to replace, your task will be broken down into simple steps and highly isolated fields of “expertise.” [...]
SOPA a distraction
The hysteria sweeps the country like a giant wave. If you do not join it, it threatens to crush you with its weight. Almost literally everyone you know has participated. The peer pressure is immense. Equally huge is the need to have some kind of response when people talk about it. The correct response is [...]
