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Institutional Event Horizon

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Post date Jan 30, 2026
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By the time you understand how academia actually works, you are already trapped inside it. That is the trick. Entry is sold as freedom of thought, critique, and discovery. What you encounter instead is a dense lattice of reputation management, contractual silence, risk avoidance, and procedural obedience. Say the wrong thing, name the wrong problem, […]

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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