The Instagram Ethos
I'll take with me The Polaroids and the memories But you know I'm gonna leave Behind the worst of us --Selena Gomez, Kygo, "It Ain't Me" There is a certain…
The Slave Morality: An Alternative Hypothesis
The Slave Morality was a famous theory of the origins of "good and evil" proposed by Friederich Nietzsche, which argued that based on the etymological origins of the words "good" and…
Rhetoric and the Morality of Hatred
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WQaNnafo1w Yesterday, I presented In Defense of Hatred to the Northwest Forum, run in absentia by Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents. My speech focused primarily on the importance of rhetoric in defending…
The Death of the Father
In my ongoing interrogation of the Nietzschean criticism of Christianity, I can't help but go into Nietzsche's own personal life. His criticism is framed in a very personal manner, both his…
Resolutions
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared No one…
Why Swim in Cold Water
Author (black shorts with arms in the air) and friends, January 2, 2013 "You're crazy!" is still the most common response when I ask people if they want to join…
#PizzaGate: Conspiracies, Conspiracy Theories, and the Retention of Aristocratic Power
"We must, indeed, all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." —Benjamin Franklin I read a novel about a year ago called Conspirata, a semi-historical account of the…
It’s All A Metaphor: Dreams, Memory, Language and Stories (Part I)
Why care about dreams? Dream interpretation has been a mystical art for thousands of years, and yet dreams, as they appear to us (when we remember them), look absurd. They…
Film Analysis: Apocalypse Now
I watched Apocalypse Now for the first time yesterday, and was impressed by the depth of its' exploration of morality, war, human-nature, and sanity. It may very well be among…
Geeks Bearing Gifts: An Argument Against Transhumanism
A friend and I were watching a TED talk on the subject of aging. The speaker was Aubrey de Grey, a British biologist who proposed a simple but fascinating new…