Philosophy - indi.ca

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."
Why American Totalitarianism Is Totally Possible - 2021/07/13

Conspiracy theories, stupid mobs, demagogues, where do you think this all leads?
Confucian Parenting Advice - 2021/07/06

When your parents die, live in the backyard for three years.
How Totalitarianism Is A Total Nightmare (Hannah Arendt) - 2021/07/03

Totalitarianism is, to Hannah Arendt, someone else's dream invading your body, until it becomes a nightmare.
The Myth Of General Intelligence - 2021/06/25

And how it makes us dumb
A Demand For Nonviolent Government - 2021/06/23

Governments have no right to hit, cage, or kill us. None.
How Do We Get Out Of Capitalism? - 2021/05/28

The way to Acid Communism
How Modern Democracy Is Tyranny - 2021/05/17

The oldest trick in democracy is deciding that certain people aren't people at all
The Monkey Roots Of Inequality - 2021/05/14

We keep appealing to reason but we're just apes
Tolstoy, The Most Woke Anarchist Since Jesus - 2021/05/11

Tolstoy is the anarchist philosopher poet, trying to make peasants into philosopher kings.
Basecamp's Problem Isn't Politics. It's Philosophy - 2021/05/03

Basecamp's implosion—losing one-third of staff—is about much more than politics. It's a failure of philosophy.
To Solve Big Problems, We Need To Go Back To Preschool - 2021/04/29

I find myself teaching my children lessons I don't follow as an adult. That we don't follow as a society. We really should.
The Buddha’s Words — Mindfulness - 2020/12/11

What it means to live forever, in a Buddhist sense
The Buddha’s Words — The Pairs - 2020/12/08

A wholly inadequate Medium trip through the Dhammapada
The Power Of Being Useless - 2020/11/13

A lesson from the Taoist sage Zhuangzi
A Roundup Of Things Not On The Internet - 2020/11/03

A perception, a memory, a book
How To Garden Your Goodness - 2020/10/20

How little things can make you a better person, according to Mengzi (300 BC)
Confucius and the Programming Language of Power - 2020/10/14

How the sage connects to Computer Science today
How Dualism Is Killing The West - 2020/09/22

Try both. Or many. Try more.
The Problem With Facebook Is Us - 2018/01/24

Users are the problem, not publishers
Why Humans Are Bad (A Poem) - 2017/12/17

We’re asking the wrong question