Philosophy

How stories got whitewashed out of philosophy

Confucius said the most important thing was ‘rectifying names’. What did he mean?

Get me out of this damned spot

was given

Your body is a temple, quarried from the stars

Ashes from ashes, dust from dust

How I was born in the Big Bang

The 'dark' and 'black' nature of most reality.

The next part of a book I'm writing.

Meditations on the self and names

The intro to the intro of a book

Grouches of the world unite

Row, row, row your boat, merrily down the mainstream

At least it acknowledges that there’s a big problem

And its continuing zombie existence, eating brains

We still have servants, we just don’t look at them

Modern buildings are so shit compared to cathedrals and climates

Grave goods mark the evolution of commodities, not human beings

On the unreality of reality and the power of dreams

As the curse goes, we live in interesting times

Not planning our economies is just planning to fail

Property is winning.

Sri Lanka is a systemic collapse, and you live in the same system too

These terrible years are actually better than what’s to come. Sorry to harsh your buzz

Watching ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’

There is no free press. It’s very expensive

A Blade Runner future, Metaverse, and eating Soylent should all be terrifying. Instead, they’re cool.

Look at Magritte instead

Toddlers of the world unite

We keep looking for AI that looks like us and missing what’s right in front of our eyes

Reading Tolstoy in a Sri Lankan protest village

Real collapse is just another on-screen dystopia

Polls and the polis

When bad guys try to change the world, heroes put them down

People don’t have power. Elites do

A Marxist reading of Spiderman

We love violent movies but get dismayed at violent news

When there’s blood on the streets, do philosophy

Electile dysfunction

And it’s a nightmare for human beings

Every artist paints a window to another world

How economists are the worst

How the loneliness of capitalism trends towards fascism

Walking through an airport like walking through a temple

Democracy is just a hammer, and lately it’s been clawing peoples eyes out

Mexico made them do drugs, Russia made them elect Trump, oligarchs made them launder money

Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free

Why having one ‘official’ name is so alien

Most COVID rules are just rituals. They preserve hierarchies, but don’t change reality

We are born together and die together