On Writing of Wrongs
We should understand that because of the technology of the day, we may well be the most recorded and documented generation in history.
We should understand that because of the technology of the day, we may well be the most recorded and documented generation in history.
Enduring institutional death is a difficulty of another magnitude and rising again is all but impossible. But some can die healthy deaths.
The contrast between real love and fairytale love is something we access through what we thought love was during our childhood
One woman’s dystopia is another’s paradise, but if *I* were to describe a dystopian leftist culture, I’d describe something like this…
To say that something is socially constructed means, at least, that our social practices play a role in determining the content of some of our concepts
I find it very, very concerning the number of libertarians who are watching the riots unfold with a gleam in their eyes
A morally justifiable act isn’t always a morally preferable. That’s an important distinction frequently overlooked in thought exercises.
There are no jobs, certainly enough jobs that exist in the kind of numbers that it would take to employ a mass exodus of Joads like me.
The things people desire can generally be broken down into three categories: Money, power, and influence
The truth of humanity is that none of us, not even Gandhi, are capable of valuing all human life the same.
“Is Chomsky a tankie? The answer is unambiguously no. There is a more interesting question however: “What is Chomsky’s role in 2020?”
The old order has been shown for the lie it was. Putting things back the way they were is effectively impossible, and a new path forward must be made.
This reluctance to condemn, this refusal to delineate between protesting and rioting, bears responsibility for what happened in Chicago last night
I consider myself an agent of chaotic good. My avenue of chaos? Information.
When the George Floyd incident first happened, you could almost feel where this was going. With the release of the bodycam footage, here we are.
Our meritocratic society believes that people with neurological disabilities are worthless weeds. Nonsense. We are flowers that can be beautiful.
Bigotry was not a life sentence, it was a decision people made, and so it was possible to choose something different. You could choose to change.
The Supreme Court handed religious conservatives a major victory, a 7-2 ruling solidifying religious autonomy and diminishing reproductive choice.