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The Myth Of A Free Press
There is no free press. It’s very expensive
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How Dystopian Art Became Utopian Advertising
A Blade Runner future, Metaverse, and eating Soylent should all be terrifying. Instead, they’re cool.
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Why It’s So Hard To Talk About Feelings
Look at Magritte instead
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Socialism For Babies At Least 👶🏾☭
Toddlers of the world unite
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How We Misunderstand AI
We keep looking for AI that looks like us and missing what’s right in front of our eyes
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Anarchy For An Anarchic Village
Reading Tolstoy in a Sri Lankan protest village
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Science Is The New Science Fiction
Real collapse is just another on-screen dystopia
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What If Opinion Polls Actually Mattered?
Polls and the polis
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How The Hero’s Journey Is Totalitarian
When bad guys try to change the world, heroes put them down
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How Liberal Democracy Is Bullshit
People don’t have power. Elites do
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How You’re In A Symbiotic Relationship With Your Job
A Marxist reading of Spiderman
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Our Love/Hate Relationship With Violence
We love violent movies but get dismayed at violent news
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At Least It’s A Good Time For Philosophy
When there’s blood on the streets, do philosophy
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Why Voting Is Dumb
Electile dysfunction
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Advertising Is How Corporations Dream
And it’s a nightmare for human beings
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How Art Creates Parallel Universes
Every artist paints a window to another world
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The Economy Is Far Too Important To Be Left To Economists
How economists are the worst
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All The Lonely People, That’s Where Fascism Comes From
How the loneliness of capitalism trends towards fascism
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How We Live In A World Of Modern Ritual
Walking through an airport like walking through a temple
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How Democracy Is Not Good
Democracy is just a hammer, and lately it’s been clawing peoples eyes out
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How White Empire Blames Everyone Else
Mexico made them do drugs, Russia made them elect Trump, oligarchs made them launder money
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How Western Propaganda Has Been Privatized
Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free
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What’s In A Name?
Why having one ‘official’ name is so alien
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The Pointlessness Of COVID Travel Theatre
Most COVID rules are just rituals. They preserve hierarchies, but don’t change reality
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The Illusion Of Being Alone
We are born together and die together
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White People Keep Looking For Hitler Everywhere But In The Mirror
White Empire needs to keep creating Hitler everywhere, to distract from their own atrocities
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We Never Lose Our Imagination, We Just Spend It Imagining Dumb Shit
Children imagine unicorns and talking animals. Adults imagine dumb shit like borders and money
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How Reality Is Breaking Down
And how other realities are building up
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How Video Games Become Religions
Did ancient religions begin this way too?
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Why Corporations Are Getting Rich Off Plague And War
They’re not human beings. It honestly doesn’t affect them
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When People Lose Trust In The Mainstream, They End Up Swimming With Crocs
When you don’t trust institutions, the media, or the government, who do you trust?
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How Cars Are The Apex Predators
If aliens were looking down from space, why would they think the roadkill are in charge?
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How AI Evolved In Money
Chapter 3 of Das Kapital: dat money
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How Too Much Data Makes People Stupid
This is your brain on TMI
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Why Capitalism Is A Dead Faith
That’s me in the corner, losing my religion
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How Self Help Is A Dead End (A Buddhist View)
If there is no-self, how do you help it?
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How Buddhist 'No-Self' Can Solve Social Problems
What if pandemics, 'weight', and mental health can't be solved at the individual level at all?
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Happy New Year, 1922
It's just a little bit of history repeating.
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Why I—A Buddhist—Love Jesus
Some Christ for Christmas
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How Humans Must Adapt To Climate Collapse Or Die (And How We'll Probably Die Anyways)
A long historical view on climate, capitalism, and life
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How Marx's Capital Is About AI
Capital is not a form of human life, it's a lifeform.
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How AI Has Already Taken Over Democracy
When corporations have the right to speech and influence, humans are screwed
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Capitalism Is A Golem Run Amok
We made artificial beings out of corporations and they suck
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America's Soggy Taco Problem
How the middle has fallen out of American politics.
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Why American Democracy Sucks
Chinese Democracy Part II
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Why Democracy Sucks
How Chinese democracy is like ancient Greece
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How I Lived Through The End Of History
The rise and fall of America in one generation. Mine
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How Carmela Soprano Is A Dharmic Hero
Tony Soprano was TV's first anti-hero, but the show still has a hero. It's Carmela.
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How News Makes You Stupider
News is the processed food of information, the Doritos of literacy.
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How Conspiracy Theories Are Killing America
"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."