Tag: society
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Politically educational Google searches
I was skeptical after reading in Douglas Murray’s book about the political educational prejudices of Google image search. He claimed that searches for black couple gave you black couples, searches for gay couples gave you gave couples, searches for white couples gave you almost entirely mixed race or non-white couples, and searches for straight couples…
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Wolves in the Wastes
Today I was reflecting on the strange cycle of distortion that a polarized populace and media have created, and how much it defines our view of the world around us. Having spent plenty of time living with the distortions and bias of the conservative media, it’s actually made it easier to see the same distortions…
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Leaving space for others to stand and oppose us
If you make white supremacy the only place white people (or cops) feelsl safe and understood, the only beneficiary will be white supremacists. Forcing people into ideological extremes with our rhetoric only erodes the great bulk of ordinary people caught in the middle and feeds the fires of the extremists at both ends. When enough…
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The importance of resisting all political extremes
I feel the same obligation to fight extreme leftist woke culture as I do to fight extreme right Trumpist culture. They’re similar extremes of differing strategies. I see value in both conservative and liberal approaches, and I think what they really are is approaches or attitudes or instinctive value structures more than they are a…
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Why words like “mansplaining” only make things worse
I have to question the value and effects of terms such as “mansplaining”, that reduce the moral and cognitive value of someone’s words, actions, and motivations to merely a function of their class belonging. Such terms were developed as a type of intellectual weapon, in principle to address a perceived power imbalance. Unfortunately, they do…
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The pursuit of the self
What percentage of your day is spent deliberately caring for or trying to bring pleasure to someone else? What effect is this likely to have on you as a person if it is little? If it is a lot? What are the likely long term effects of a society that encourages us to spend more…
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Strategies for unity
Unity and peace among people won’t be found by focusing on our differences but by embracing our commonalities. Representation is an incoherent concept for fixing human society and eliminating injustice because there is no limit to how you can divide people by their differences. If we can’t find the commonality within one another and set…
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Muck
In the current culture of muckraking and accusation and everyone constantly flinging dirt at everyone, there are two types of people who can escape and thrive. Those who absolutely refuse to get involved and stay out of the puddle, and those in the middle who are so inured to the mud that they don’t even…
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The lies of omission
The myths of our time, that don’t tell us the truth about the world. They have power because they are a skins of partial truth, or they’re a counterbalance to the abuse of the actual truth. They have the right spirit, but the wrong content. Instead of correcting the truth, they contradict it. And the…
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Incitement to violence and Christianity
Kill the white devils! Viva la revolution! The key difference between King and many other revolutionaries who have preached similar ethics about the need to directly overturn systems of order for the sake of justice is that King was deeply committed to the doctrine of Christian love as the guiding and restraining principle that tamed…
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