Socialism, Communism & Historical Materialism —

A Discussion on Woke Ideology —

The Book of Revelations is quite the paradox. It found its way into the Bible by being shortlisted by a certain Bishop, barely making it into the lineup we have nowadays, but beating out other ‘revelations’ such as the Revelation of Peter. It is said to be written by a…

The world is teetering on the brink. The doomsday clock is now 90 seconds to midnight, closer than we’ve ever been. By any likely estimation, we are closer today to WW3 breaking out than ever before. …

Aristotle says that “all men by nature desire to know”[1] but this desire stems not just from a childlike curiosity. We are driven, we are compelled to know. We have eaten from the tree of knowledge, and have awoken both to the beauty and the harshness of the world, both…

Camus declares life to be absurd and takes this given as the starting point for his philosophy. He claims that this absurdity is established in the “impossibility of knowledge” which we respond to with “everlasting nothingness” and “irremediable despair”. …

Death, Liberation, and the Third Path — The Tibetan Book of the Dead describes a strategy for escaping the cycle of rebirth (which can only be attempted and achieved during the death process). During the days following one’s death, many scenes are said to come before the individual, each masquerading as the truth. The goal is to…

These so-called culture wars are emblematic of something much larger at play. It’s not just about preferences and opinions, it’s a struggle for the narrative control over reality. In fact, though, that is what culture is. As an anthropologist wrote (years before The Matrix), culture is the “matrix into which…

On the Theory of Nonviolence — When I was a kid, one of the required readings for school was a book about a teenage boy in a frontier family who struggles with his commitment to nonviolence as the Indians (yes, they were called Indians), who were on their war path, headed to his home. The family…