Philosophy - indi.ca

The Myth Of A Free Press - 2022/06/22

There is no free press. It’s very expensive
How Dystopian Art Became Utopian Advertising - 2022/06/20

A Blade Runner future, Metaverse, and eating Soylent should all be terrifying. Instead, they’re cool.
Why It’s So Hard To Talk About Feelings - 2022/06/19

Look at Magritte instead
Socialism For Babies At Least 👶🏾☭ - 2022/06/17

Toddlers of the world unite
How We Misunderstand AI - 2022/06/11

We keep looking for AI that looks like us and missing what’s right in front of our eyes
Anarchy For An Anarchic Village - 2022/06/10

Reading Tolstoy in a Sri Lankan protest village
Science Is The New Science Fiction - 2022/06/08

Real collapse is just another on-screen dystopia
What If Opinion Polls Actually Mattered? - 2022/06/05

Polls and the polis
How The Hero’s Journey Is Totalitarian - 2022/05/29

When bad guys try to change the world, heroes put them down
How Liberal Democracy Is Bullshit - 2022/05/24

People don’t have power. Elites do
How You’re In A Symbiotic Relationship With Your Job - 2022/05/23

A Marxist reading of Spiderman
Our Love/Hate Relationship With Violence - 2022/05/20

We love violent movies but get dismayed at violent news
At Least It’s A Good Time For Philosophy - 2022/05/18

When there’s blood on the streets, do philosophy
Why Voting Is Dumb - 2022/05/15

Electile dysfunction
Advertising Is How Corporations Dream - 2022/05/11

And it’s a nightmare for human beings
How Art Creates Parallel Universes - 2022/05/08

Every artist paints a window to another world
The Economy Is Far Too Important To Be Left To Economists - 2022/05/03

How economists are the worst
All The Lonely People, That’s Where Fascism Comes From - 2022/04/15

How the loneliness of capitalism trends towards fascism
How We Live In A World Of Modern Ritual - 2022/03/24

Walking through an airport like walking through a temple
How Democracy Is Not Good - 2022/03/20

Democracy is just a hammer, and lately it’s been clawing peoples eyes out
How White Empire Blames Everyone Else - 2022/03/17

Mexico made them do drugs, Russia made them elect Trump, oligarchs made them launder money
How Western Propaganda Has Been Privatized - 2022/03/16

Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free
What’s In A Name? - 2022/03/14

Why having one ‘official’ name is so alien
The Pointlessness Of COVID Travel Theatre - 2022/03/11

Most COVID rules are just rituals. They preserve hierarchies, but don’t change reality
The Illusion Of Being Alone - 2022/03/05

We are born together and die together
White People Keep Looking For Hitler Everywhere But In The Mirror - 2022/03/04

White Empire needs to keep creating Hitler everywhere, to distract from their own atrocities
We Never Lose Our Imagination, We Just Spend It Imagining Dumb Shit - 2022/02/16

Children imagine unicorns and talking animals. Adults imagine dumb shit like borders and money
How Reality Is Breaking Down - 2022/02/14

And how other realities are building up
How Video Games Become Religions - 2022/02/11

Did ancient religions begin this way too?
Why Corporations Are Getting Rich Off Plague And War - 2022/02/08

They’re not human beings. It honestly doesn’t affect them
When People Lose Trust In The Mainstream, They End Up Swimming With Crocs - 2022/02/07

When you don’t trust institutions, the media, or the government, who do you trust?
How Cars Are The Apex Predators - 2022/02/05

If aliens were looking down from space, why would they think the roadkill are in charge?
How AI Evolved In Money - 2022/02/02

Chapter 3 of Das Kapital: dat money
How Too Much Data Makes People Stupid - 2022/02/01

This is your brain on TMI
Why Capitalism Is A Dead Faith - 2022/01/24

That’s me in the corner, losing my religion
How Self Help Is A Dead End (A Buddhist View) - 2022/01/18

If there is no-self, how do you help it?
How Buddhist 'No-Self' Can Solve Social Problems - 2022/01/13

What if pandemics, 'weight', and mental health can't be solved at the individual level at all?
Happy New Year, 1922 - 2022/01/07

It's just a little bit of history repeating.
Why I—A Buddhist—Love Jesus - 2021/12/24

Some Christ for Christmas
How Humans Must Adapt To Climate Collapse Or Die (And How We'll Probably Die Anyways) - 2021/12/10

A long historical view on climate, capitalism, and life
How Marx's Capital Is About AI - 2021/11/01

Capital is not a form of human life, it's a lifeform.
How AI Has Already Taken Over Democracy - 2021/10/27

When corporations have the right to speech and influence, humans are screwed
Capitalism Is A Golem Run Amok - 2021/10/22

We made artificial beings out of corporations and they suck
America's Soggy Taco Problem - 2021/10/15

How the middle has fallen out of American politics.
Why American Democracy Sucks - 2021/10/08

Chinese Democracy Part II
Why Democracy Sucks - 2021/10/06

How Chinese democracy is like ancient Greece
How I Lived Through The End Of History - 2021/09/04

The rise and fall of America in one generation. Mine
How Carmela Soprano Is A Dharmic Hero - 2021/07/23

Tony Soprano was TV's first anti-hero, but the show still has a hero. It's Carmela.
How News Makes You Stupider - 2021/07/22

News is the processed food of information, the Doritos of literacy.
How Conspiracy Theories Are Killing America - 2021/07/20

"The discovery of the Nazis was that the masses were not so frightened by Jewish world rule as they were interested in how it could be done."