Do you believe that there is a hedonically ideal set of propensities for aesthetic pleasure to which all should aspire, and that this sets the standar...
Today’s humanity, that is me and you, are living dead — sharing the unhealable inner wound of disillusionment that cannot be healed. The basic reason ...
A useful counterweight to all our talk about the return of history, the new age of great-power conflict, etc: ********** Russia is dying. In just the ...
On Friday the wholesale price of domestic energy was nine times what it was a year ago. But the cost of production of energy hasn’t changed. The entir...
High culture has just demonstrated that it has its own version of more plebeian jingoistic pursuits like "liberty cabbage," "freedom fries" or, today,...
I keep thinking about Julia Ioffe’s on-target criticism of the US media narrative of this war: —the underdog Ukrainians, —the hear-throb president, —t...
This absurd debacle over whether Novak Djokovic can enter Australia and play in the Australian Open despite being unvaccinated illustrates so much of ...
The distorted logic that suicide is a personal, even selfish, whim based on some kind of external happiness quotient remains pervasive, despite effort...
And...... there is a right to suicide, for whatever reason, and access to information and the means. It's in your head: Why reducing all problems to '...
The existence of faultless aesthetic disagreements, even given the arguments that often accompany such disputes, supports a subjectivist and relativis...
Empirical psychological aesthetics is confronted with an initial logical difficulty analogous to that which confronts empirical objective aesthetics. ...
Does anyone owe anyone else his or her life? Does anyone have a duty to suffer for anyone else's benefit (or to forestall anyone else's prospective su...
While anyone can get infected, there is more than a thousand-fold difference in the risk of death between the old and the young. The failure to proper...
Requiring healthy citizens to get vaccinated against a virus that is not particularly deadly — whilst using a vaccine not particularly efficacious — n...
The indication to (mass) test was Bullshit. The rapid test was Bullshit. The diagnostic criteria are Bullshit. Antisocial distancing, quarantine, isol...
We no longer understand melancholy. Today we lump all forms of melancholy together into one indiscriminate bundle and call it “depression”. While a lo...
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