“Live the Enduring Values”
It's a phrase on a poster where I work. A cynical person might think of it as corporate propaganda. What...
It's a phrase on a poster where I work. A cynical person might think of it as corporate propaganda. What...
It used to be the case, and maybe still is, that liberals were concerned with truth. In today’s postmodern society, however, and I hope I’m wrong about this, but it feels like liberalism is being replaced by leftism, which no longer concerns itself with truth as much as it concerns itself with power. Especially political […]
I’m hoping you find this post persuasive – really. If and when coercion replaces persuasion, you know you’re in a dictatorship or a cult or the Mafia or some other unhealthy institution or relationship. Or maybe you’re a character in a dystopian novel like George Orwell’s 1984. Contrast that with what I would call an […]
Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 gave us many commonly-used phrases, such as “Big Brother is watching,” “thought police”, “newspeak”, and “doublethink”, among others. He wrote of “smelly little orthodoxies” in the novel and in a description of his imagined view of Charles Dickens: “It is the face of a man who is always fighting against something, […]
Summary: Some Christians argue for a 6,000-year-old universe. It’s also called “young-earth creationism” and holds that the universe, Earth, and all life forms were created by direct acts of God less than 10,000 years ago.[1] It comes from a hyper-literal interpretation of the creation account in Genesis 1 and it ticks me off. I’m not […]
In his chapter titled “The Slavery of Childhood” in Real-Time Relationships: the Logic of Love, Stefan Molyneux writes, “… we are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war – but rather we are taught to fear each other. … The entire purpose […]
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