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If the material world produces ideas, then there is no truth and ideas can’t be wrong: it’s all just, like, your opinion, man. But if consciousness and ideas come first, the creati…

You make a great point. People had no hope. This is why Hope is an essential survival strategy.

> Whatever one thinks of Marx's idea that objective reality is a middle class fiction, I don't think people would agree that those ideas are associated with the elite of Western ci…

You are pointing directly at the philosophical bedrock of western civilization, something which most white collar elites implicitly believe but don't state outright. It shows up ri…

> I genuinely don't know how someone can look at something like the dismantling of USAID as anything but an increase in "large pain". Maybe try asking people why they think it’s ba…

We’re watching the Protestant reformation 2.0 play itself out. The role of the Catholic church is this time being played by the technocratic establishment of NGO’s, academia and ma…

There are many Christians who would happily to get in long arguments over which values are “clearly Christian.” If you really want to understand, it’s not hard. It just requires ma…

“Teams selecting leaders” or “randomly choosing the spokesperson” still gives rise to an explicit hierarchy, but in this case it’s not permanent and there’s a mechanism that preven…

Vivek Ramaswamy argues that these actions are still first amendment violations because the government pushed corporations to do this, under something called “state action in privat…

Can you give an example of a principle that isn’t made up?

For some reason this seems really hard for people to accept: That religious people actually think there are consequences for their choices, even if no human being ever knows.

> That's not something done because zombie mothers will rise up to enforce anything. This was done in cultures where people really believed their deceased ancestors were watching t…

I can believe that being reminded of your convictions helps you abide by them, but this is only true if you really have convictions! If you think your being in power is more import…

Hi, thanks for sharing - do you mind explaining what DI and NK mean? Thank you :)

My interpretation is that school is a not a great place to learn how to act in the real world. In particular, school is way more hierarchical and command-and-control than the real …

What about people who own and operate their own small business?

Which country do you live in where you think they aren’t doing this?

Your government is torturing and killing people on your behalf. Are you cool with that? Or is voting ineffective at stopping them?

What about a majority of people agreeing that adults should leave each other alone?

… which had an army bigger than Britain’s.

Replace “economic” with “political” and this is obviously a false equivalence. Historically, everyone dies. The right question is “which systems have produced the most new wealth f…

At the risk of saying something taboo here, it is the belief among lots of people that the system is totally fine except for one bad mechanism which has polluted everything. This b…

At what point did Wikileaks become the bad guys? Was this a change in their behavior, or a change in American political attitudes towards the role of journalism?

Bitcoin is people striving for financial self sovereignty. “Crypto” is a bunch of people trying to get rich using some cool new technology they nobody understands. See how much big…