Tag: politics
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The Mushroom and I
Part 11: An introspection on the legacy of trauma, the gang is saved by Keir Llama, and Melanie might finally be a human again.
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The Online Safety Act
One mans jork, is another mans VPN… Your choices are submit your face scan or passport to a third party AI to have a good gander and guess at your age. Or, download a VPN, free ones usually give you about half an hour per location, and most of Europe is following suite. So, you…
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The Recursion of Morality
“If you crush a cockroach, you’re a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you’re a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria.” – Nietzsche A recursion is when a problem is solved internally by itself, with continuous feedback of slowly fragmenting the issue until it is solved. This method is well known to programmers, often used…
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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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Sustainability
Introduction With the emergence of the industrial revolution humanity has, in turn, until more recent times disassociated itself with its naturalistic origins, and so had the field of sociology. The prominence of sociological concern in environmental and sustainability issues began to see rapid expansion during the 1970’s. Before that, the social science theories on human…
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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…
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Is Absolutism the Key to a Strong and Undivided Government?
A Philosophical Discussion by A.M. Kent Introduction Absolutism is a term used to describe the total sovereignty of a singular entity, be it a monarch or government over the collective people (Fichter, 1939). The discussion and critical analysis of this essay will first look at the history of enlightenment thinkers, most notably Thomas Hobbes, and…
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