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Strange Days

Post author By G
Post date Jan 18, 2026
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What strikes me most about the current president of the United States is a strange inversion that would be almost comic if it were not so consequential. He shows little regard for the role he occupies, scant respect for the law, and no evident commitment to the country beyond what it can deliver to him […]

Philosophy

Moral Inversion

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Post date Jan 17, 2026
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Nietzsche’s The Antichrist was not written to identify a villain in the conventional sense. It was an intervention aimed at disturbing complacency. His target was not a person, but a reversal: a situation in which values publicly affirmed as moral, spiritual, or redemptive had become detached from the practices and dispositions they purported to sanctify. […]

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