You Are a Zombie
For reasons that are somewhat mysterious to me, zombie movies remain fairly popular. There has been a notable change in the genre, however. A few decades ago, zombie movies were…
For reasons that are somewhat mysterious to me, zombie movies remain fairly popular. There has been a notable change in the genre, however. A few decades ago, zombie movies were…
(This is part 4 in the โCrisis and Inertiaโ series.) While climate change constitutes a major if not terminal crisis for civilization (and possibly even for mankind) and certain technologies…
(This is part 3 in the โCrisis and Inertiaโ series.) Some advances of technology are feared by many. Some of those fears may be justified; others less so. Nuclear weapons…
Physical objects resist any change in their position and state of motion. This is inertia, often defined as the physical principle that moving objects keep moving in a straight line…
A decade ago or so, a โpopulistโ was someone who appealed to the supposed reactionary underbelly of the common folk to win votes and/or influence. โPopulistsโ were usually found on…
This is an edited collection of excerpts from my book/pamphlet The Hegemony of Psychopathy. * * * The Holocaust has received surprisingly little attention from social and political philosophers. This…
Surprisingly many people seem to think that anti-fascists are just as bad as the fascists they oppose. (According to one rather unreliable source even Chomsky recently made critical comments about…
Pride plays an important role in most โ if not all โ ideologies on the right of the political spectrum. National pride and racial pride are the most obvious examples.…
Nearly everyone seems to believe that they are entitled to their opinion, but it is not exactly clear what that means. This commonly claimed entitlement is some kind of supposed…