Woke: Collectivist or Individualist? A short debate A while ago reader Charles Pincourt contacted me with some thoughts on the nature of the “Woke” revolution and its challenge to liberalism and civilization. I found that we disagreed in ways that made for an interesting discussion, so we decided to turn the conversation into a
Philosophy
Lectures on the Mind for Young Samurai, by Mishima Yukio "The approximation of all forms of sex to the trifling, if expensive, escapist pleasure that comes from taking [sleeping] pills may be called the most critical phenomenon of our time." Lectures on the Mind for Young Samurai Mishima Yukio For Young Samurai Subscribe On Life After beginning life, people gradually
Live Your Own Truth: Finding Our Way Out of the Dead End of Propaganda, Mimesis and the Idea of Personal Genius to Begin the Process of Birthing a New Culture It is vitally important that we learn how to once again "ground" ourselves. But we cannot do this with reason or science. We cannot do it with universals. The only way out is through. Critical theory. Post-modernism. Politically, these terms spark revulsion in many. They are looked upon as the
The Greatness of Simplicity An addendum by William George Jordan While working on writing “Hard Lessons from Israel’s High-Tech Border Failure” earlier this week, including thinking through its arguments on the value of simple over complex systems, I kept finding my memory niggled by an old speech/essay on simplicity that I recalled