Tag: society
rhetoric of heroism
“Wouldn’t you rather die on your feet, than serve on your knees?” This statement employs a type of vain morality…
Sin as sublime
Every deadly sin can become mystical at excessive levels. Transgressions at the extreme explode the individual: which is why they…
Intolerable Contradictions: Egality vs Liberty
There is a contradiction in appealing to equity and egalitarian outcomes in a society that proclaims individuality as a natural…
Two reactions to Precarity: optimization and vitalism
One reaction to the precarity is to return to the body, eschew ecstasy and escapism, get more sleep, optimize your…
Return to Nature: a reaction to precarity that is precarious
The first reaction to precarity from complexity is returning to a natural state (rejecting society). Which is noble and -definitionally-…
The blame game
When we excessively shift fault to the negligence of others (by insisting they should’ve thought more of us or prevented…
liberalism: Flattened Freedoms
Liberalism, in the classical sense, promotes individual freedom and civil liberties, that is, the agency of the individual citizen and…
Your absence of rut is your rut
Without being pressured, one thinks they are free from being influenced. However, the absence or negation of pressure creates a…
Psychopathy and schizophrenia is reasonable responses
If your society rewards sociopathy (or psychopathy), it is reasonable to become antisocial, nonempathetic, and egotistical. Then why are we…
Feedback from Systemic Distortion
The problem with relying on feedback is that it interprets the event and modifies it into an "abstract" (simplified) form.……