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Politics

A political stance is really just a way of sharing with the world what you think that people really are…

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Obsolescence

To live a life forever chasing the ineffable dragons of manufactured experience and superficial self-expression…

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culture

Words: Mistaken Identities

In a world such as this where we all have our guards up most of the time in response to the more bleak realities of life, we would still do well to remember that goodness, sincerity and honesty still exists within others and within ourselves…

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culture

Cult of Personality

The cult of the leader, of single isolated points of power and control and is an inevitable consequence and inversion of a fundamental social and psychological misunderstanding…

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Philosophy

On Unity

Self and world are nothing in themselves and it is only in the interactions and creative, fundamentally incomplete interplay that they both gain substance…

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culture

Facebook Tackles Fake News

Facebook provides an attempted technical solution in this opening salvo of the online Truth Wars…

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politics

Voting Against Your Own Best Interests

A wily political tactician may influence or deceive through emotional hypnotic suggestion to an unwitting neuropsychological susceptibility…

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culture

Online: Political Polarisation ?

The fault, as it goes, lies not in the stars but in ourselves…

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culture

Empty World

Some number of years ago now, I remember witnessing a filmic representation of something written by Charles Bukowski, its title eludes me. This was perhaps characteristically, miserably bizzarre and featured some peculiar and wicked strand of thought concerning a discovery that the narrator was the only real person and everyone else he encountered were soul-less, […]

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culture

Enigma: Dissolution and Emptiness

The psychological self is itself so deeply intertwined with the world from which it accumulates its ideas and opinions that it is in itself actually profoundly empty and void…

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culture

Minds: Individual and Collective

Have you ever considered that the myriad sorrows and insecurities we all share are really not ours at all?

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culture

Contexts: Conflict and Collaboration

Ours is a world in which there exists immense and unremitting uncertainty and doubt…