Recent posts tagged society
2022
Smarties
Our mistake with intelligence was to consider it as possession rather than a skillset.
2021
How Can You Say You Know Me When I Don't Even Know Myself?
It's impossible to control what happens when people pay attention to you in numbers. Just respond as gracefully as you can.
Let's Blow This Popsicle Stand
When you are faced with a world this chaotic and nasty, is the only sane response to reject it wholesale?
The Fault In Our Stars, And The Responsibilities Engendered Thereof
"I keep thinking," my friend said, "that if only I'd done more, we wouldn't be in this mess we're in now." Were they right?
2020
Fearful Asymmetry
If I could sum up the problem of modern politics in only a few words, it would be this: the asymmetry of the motivations of the participants.
Where They All Went
On losing touch with friends, and the difficulty of making new ones.
Cold World Blues
"The universe doesn't care about our feelings" isn't an excuse to be mean. No condition of life is an excuse.
From Inside Out, Pt. 3,276
Spiritual advice don't mean a thing if it don't come from within.
2019
No Hands On The Wheel
The problem of power, and why discarding power isn't a solution to it.
Why Nelson The Miscreant Was Right
"...the wretched of the earth might not be wholly responsible for their wretchedness."
Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
"...what we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument."
Out Of Touch
The number of things we need to have an opinion about right this second is not as large as it might seem.
Freedom Yeah Right
"... from where I sit, freedom isn't choice. Freedom is agency. Indeed, choice - by limiting agency - is often the opposite of freedom."
Nowhere To Go Drinking
People need a place to go that's just a place to gather.
2018
What We Put Into Our Heads
Most of us simply don't care what we stuff in there. It's a moral failing.
Kid Stuff
On how we've outgrown outgrowing things.
On The Other Hand, Insects Are A Pretty Efficient Lot
"Specialization is for insects", revisited.
No Humans Allowed
Once again: Whatever it is we're designing our world for, it isn't the human being.
Faceless
With Facebook out of my life, it's all the easier to spot unproductive discourse of all kinds, because of what else it reminds me of.
Erasure
Outside of the social media bubble, the void.
Getting Better All The Time
Why Steven Pinker's encomium to an improving world falls so flat.
Paranoia The Destroyer
On how the conspiracy theory mindset stems from emotional torment.
Typing With Both Fists
On blogging while angry.
Doomed To Repeat It
In re Parkland.
2017
Don't Techno For An Answer
"The computer has almost since its beginning been a solution looking for a problem."
