Tag: discussion
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Surviving the Fall of Babylon

“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.” ― Cormac McCarthy A nation, a country, a society, all fall regardless of how prosperous they once were. It now falls, not by just an external enemy, but also by its own hand. Athens was conquered,…
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A Certificate of Presence and Absence

What is Death Now? What if death no longer means disappearing? We used to bury the dead. Now we upload them.We used to grieve in silence. Now we grieve in comments.Death is no longer a curtain call, it’s a playlist. In this age of eternal footage, AI griefbots, and ultra-HD memories, death hasn’t stopped happening……
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Postmodernity and Progressive Liberalism

Postmodernity and Progressive Liberalism Metanarratives This is the first in an ongoing series of analyses and critiques on societal structures and politics, I thought I would start with the most current, relevant, and ideologically popular first. Jean-François Lyotard famously described postmodernity as an “incredulity toward metanarratives.” This means that postmodernity has scrapped old metanarratives (In…

