Author: Mr Nobody
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What makes me hard to shock?
From a purely psychological standpoint, how people respond to a crisis or to a traumatic event tells you a lot about them and their belief system. A lot of trauma results from the catastrophic encounter with genuine danger or malevolence (either in the world or in yourself) that you did not believe was posssible within…
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Peter Enns
I’m not sure what to make of Peter Enns. On the one hand, I can see how a line of similarity might be drawn from my own ideas to his. And I don’t think he’s on to nothing. And I don’t entirely agree with his critics. And yet because I find myself often honking along…
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A cultural holdup
I was listening to the recommendations of critical race theory recently, and it was sounding oddly familiar. If you’re white or male or some other privileged class, shut up, step aside, and hand over your privilege. And I suddenly realized, it’s a cultural holdup. The gun to our heads is the threat of public social…
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Is morality harmlessness?
There is an idea today that to be moral is to cause no harm. To please yourself, I suppose, and do not harm to others. Now, whether or not those two goals are actually compatible in a complex society is a question for another time. But the essential argument, that agreeability, pleasantness, causing no distress…
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Equality and tyranny
There is a basic fact that explains why any attempt to enforce equality as an outcome of life must always inevitably involve more despotic control, injustice, and force than any system that allows for difference. And it is the fact that neither the world, nor people, are in fact in any way fundamentally. All places…
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WAP and women’s empowerment
I was reading this morning various statements people had made about the new song and video WAP. If you haven’t heard about it, it’s a new song by Cardi B and a collaborator. Many women and black media outlets invariably described it as “empowering”. A new anthem for women in the modern age. There were,…
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A dream
I had a dream. And in my dream I asked why I couldn’t trust my body. And the answer given was, because it will betray you. Your body is only matter, held together by purpose and information. And it can only be held together for so long. That purpose can only be exerted so far.…
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Why sex must always be sacred
Sex must be sacred because it is a psychological necessity that it be so. The proliferation of ritual, religious significance, taboos, ideals, legends, and art across the entire world that focus on sex is an inescapable universal phenomenon. We cannot help but turn sex into a temple, a god, a ritual, an idol. It is…
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Choice, agency, and morality
There’s this very odd argument I keep hearing about all kinds of things. It’s a moral explanatory argument. I’ve seen in used in many circumstances, about homosexuality, transexualism, race, economics. It’s a two stage argument. The first stage, typically left unsaid and assumed, is that people aren’t responsible for things they didn’t choose. Moral responsibility…
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Recreation vs redemption
There is much about humanity that could be complained about. There is much that is harsh, biased, infuriating, and even unjust. It would be nice if there were some other way of being in the world, some other kind of creature that we could be, some new man and new woman. And much of what…
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