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05, 2020
Thoughts Within the Coronising Siege
This is the 2nd pandemia of global capitalocene (1st was/is the temperature and sea-level rise, but it's so slow banks don't worry). So we’re in kinda „medical pre-fascism,“ for the rulers a very welcome excuse for the future: only police and pass-holders on the streets, no unruly demonstrators, approaching total control
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04, 2020
COVID-19, Capitalism, and Socialism
by Victor Wallis The COVID-19 emergency underscores longstanding truths about capitalism and socialism. Acting on the most immediate demands that
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04, 2020
The Übermensch and Transhumanism
By: Dan Corjescu Does Nietzsche have anything important to say to us, the current inhabitants of a hyperglobal age? Nietzsche
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03, 2020
Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
By Craig Collins As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall
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02, 2020
Who’s Afraid of the 1%?
“It is not important that everyone should have the same. What is morally important is that each should have enough”
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12, 2019
Narcissism and the Idolization of Technology
By Glen Paul Hammond It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that
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12, 2019
Alien Visitors and a Categorical Planetary Ethic
By: Dan Corjescu Imagine this rather typical SF scenario: alien invaders arrive on Earth. They are vastly superior in intelligence,
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12, 2019
What Are Rights? Two Early Modern Attempts at an Answer
By: Brandy Harrison You only have to turn on the television or glance at the news headlines to encounter it:
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10, 2019
The Political Correctness of ‘People of Colour’
For me, “people of colour” feels like a hiding place, as if I must hide an important part of me because it still isn’t deemed vital enough to define myself.
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08, 2019
Arguing Dialectically about Abortion
How do we talk about abortion? How do we make arguments about a topic that evokes such strong reactions? In opposing articles, Nathan Nobis and Kristina Grob and Hendrick van der Breggen, approach the issue dialectically. One approach is to think dialectically--to critically examine arguments pro or con, in order to uncover the assumptions and grounds they rest on, and develop new arguments that respond to the faults we find in our prior positions.