Tag: society
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Justice (part 2)
What is it about this incorrect idea of justice that is correct? Because Marx wasn’t on to nothing. There is a sense of injustice that he and others like him were attempting to correct. We’ve just shown, and history has also shown, that despite its best intentions, when used as a guiding, defining moral calculus,…
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What kind of justice should we seek?
There is a problem with justice, in that because the world is what it is and because people are what they are, you can’t get both kinds of justice that people seem to want. People think everyone should have a fair, as in equally advantageous, shot at success. Each person should have as much of…
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What the sexes owe one another
Marriage is a strange but curiosly persistent and widespread arrangement. How humanity arrived at it, whether by nature or by divine appointment, if there is any sense in making such a distinction from the perspective of the time, isnt really my concern here, and isn’t a question that can be empirically answered. It certainly seems…
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Fears for the future election
I’ve heard so many smart people discuss so many issues. But here is one question I would love to see addressed. How do you sleep at night? Knowing everything that going on, maybe knowing too much, how? Seeing the madness and tribalism slowly overtaking our safe corners, working it’s way into the people I work…
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Jung and Thomas Sowell
I finally understand, I think, what the archetypes of Jung are. I was thinking of them too much like an English major. They’re like built in concepts hardwired into human psychology. They map onto oract as symbolic representations of something built into the human psyche. They reflect some deep seated conceptual framework or concept that…
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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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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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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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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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Would men care about women without sex?
One thing I sometimes wonder is, what percentage of the love, attention, and respect that men show women is due to their sexual attraction to them? I’m willing to bet that it’s a lot. Looking at how men act toward men, there’s a lot of competition. There’s not a huge amount of personal interest. Men…
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