Society

Intelligent machines are beginning to impinge on the exclusive franchise of human meaning, by stealing some of our thunder in language and the arts.

“Keep right except to pass,” is not as simple as it might seem.

Verbal responses to sneezing are near-universal across human cultures. What is the meaning of these sayings? What should you say?

How did religion come to be opposed to universal civil rights?

Nilou expounds on how she developed her anti-hierarchy philosophy, that could be viewed by some as being “communist.” Interior colonization.

Masculine essentialism is largely mythology. Yet that world view is rampant in boardrooms and video game chat feeds across America.

Envisioning a new system of global governance which will require constitutional reform for the United States and the world.

Words not only describe the world, they do much more, they shape the world.

The January 6 insurrection as white supremacist violence. Wage slavery vs. meaningful work. Vaccine mandates.

The false fragility of the American system, being forced to choose between Social Darwinism and the feared “Utopias.” The connection between laissez-faire capitalism and racist outcomes.