Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Friday, July 10th, 2026
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In discussion, we have wondered about the lunacies that are afflicting us, and I have been asked what I make of them. I begin by noting that the nonsense we observe is characterized by its uniformly destructive nature. I have previously noted that in order to determine whether the agents ...
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Thursday, July 9th, 2026
It has no foundational texts
We were discussing the origins of the multiculturalist ideology and the idea that ‘Diversity is Our Strength.’ (I shall call this the MCD Complex - MCDC.) I pointed out that although Liberalism could point back to JS Mill and any number of other philosophers, and Socialists ...
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Does the Analysis of Populism Rest on a Mistake?
Scholars who are struggling to come up with a coherent and plausible characterization of populism may be approaching the problem from the wrong direction. They seem to have assumed that there is a thing that ‘populism’ describes and that all uses of ...
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Sunday, July 5th, 2026
Almost all mainstream political programs have ultimately aimed at (or at least have been justified in terms of) improving the lot of humankind. In this respect you might call them Eudaimonist. Socialists think that humans will flourish better with equality maximised, liberals think the same for maximising liberty, and so ...
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Sunday, June 28th, 2026
What are these ‘indigenous ways of knowing’ (henceforth, IWK)? Let’s ignore the term ‘indigenous’ for the moment: we will see that it has its own problems. An unsystematic review of many of the official and semi-official resources available online is extremely confusing, since there seems to be no consistent distinction ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2026
Extract from the Brookings Report 182-4
The implications of a discovery of extraterrestrial life
Recent publicity given to efforts to detect extraterrestrial messages via radio telescope has popularized -- and legitimized -- speculations about the impact of such a discovery on human values. [33] It is conceivable that there is semi-intelligent ...
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Thursday, October 14th, 2021
I, me, my
Please keep up.
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
_ pronouns are _, _, and _. They may not be written or pronounced, for you are not worthy.
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Friday, July 2nd, 2021
I put this together in just a half hour or so after talking to a friend who remarked upon how much nonsense we were supposed to believe. Note that I didn't even have to talk about the temporary bullshits of the current news cycle, and I haven't mentioned any of ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2021
Here are mín preferred pronouns. Ic am currently identifying as masculine singular; if this changes the guide will be updated. It is your responsibility to check this noticeboard before attempting any pronominal reference to ensure compliance and avoid offence.
(The acute accent signs mark long vowel sounds. The letter 'g' in ...
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