Category: cultural critique

  • The Ubiquitous drug of modernity.

    Our first and most obvious craving was for sugar. You don’t realize that sugar is really just a low-level cocaine addiction until you don’t have it … Knowing your addictions… ——— most people do not think about it. But when you do, you must have some sort of sinking feeling in your stomach. Then also…

  • Racism as Psychological Disorder.

    I would add that to suggest a return to a “primary source” as looking at evidence from history, does not take the full step; but it is indeed a necessary step to allow for the condition which is indeed primary. We should not stop at historical materialism.

  • Fear of Losing Power.

    Trump voters motivated by fear of losing status, study finds. We just might find one day that the only power that can be lost is that power which is invested of fear of losing power. ☺️✨ Somehow, I doubt it though. People love their fear.

  • Opinion: Putin, Kremlin were unprepared for a US-EU assault

    Opinion: Putin, Kremlin were unprepared for a US-EU assault Opinion: Putin, Kremlin were unprepared for a US-EU assault — Read on virtualborscht.com/2018/04/11/opinion-putin-kremlin-were-unprepared-for-a-us-eu-assault/ This may be a stretch, but like Fergie, I’m not afraid to experiment. We like to play nice in the west. Even our meanest playing is still often nice. But we are smart and…

  • An Attempt at Discussing Some ‘Disparities’: Terrorism, Religion, Truth and Belief.

    Taking a cue from Amorinblog, I am making an attempt to speak to the notion of disparities. Lets see how is goes.   What is terrorism? When we think about the activities of terrorism, a marginal view might situate terrorism in terms of truth. What we have with the possibility of terrorism is a function…

  • Post-modernism’s Worth. 

    When we are too close to an event, we talk about it as from a distance. That is, what we say is automatically distanced from the event, a maximum distance. The event is thus, by this occurrence, an object. As opposed to our psychotherapeutic model, the closer we are to an event, the more dishonest…

  • The Impossible, part 4: Spiritual Oneness and the State of Incorporated Reality.

    The operative question that motivates the essays on the impossible can be formulated by the questions of determinism and contingency: Is the random aspect of the physical universe of science responsible or otherwise enacted or present in the random aspect that involves human choice, such that choice is determined by the state of the universe,…

  • The impossible, Part 3.

    The impossible, Part 3.

    When we talk about the impossible we might see a light at the end of the tunnel, but this light is really just the part of the tunnel that has electricity. The point of any discussion that wishes to find a solution, should not be about solutions. So far as reality proper and ideological power…

  • Non-Philosophy and Aphilosophy: Departure. An Exercise of Metalepsis; Spinoza and the term part 2; Laruelle and the Quadripartite.

    If we are steadfast in our undertaking we will not labor our attitude of righteousness. Yet, we likewise must not fall back into the comfort of the easy way. The challenge is to indeed be challenged, and not to again be presented with another variation of puzzle, for by now the puzzles are seen to…

  • Issues and Existence.

    I subscribe to a blog called “Bigstoryguide” where he author is involved with a running commentary as he goes through the Bible. Yes, the whole Bible. His blog he calls ‘Jesus’s death to life project’. I think he just got to the New Testament. I am not a Christian; I am not religious nor prescribe…