philosophy
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Good, Ai, and the Assault on Reality
Reality used to be a place one visited when one’s mind became too self-serving, toxic, tiring, or simply boring. Then one day an aggressive cancer composed of digital media inserted itself between us, our minds and the reality of the… Continue reading
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Good and Death by Disconnected Detail
This writer’s adult life has spanned the birth of the personal computer, invention of internet, and the spread of social media, so the concept of a society drowning in an ocean of detail stands out in near perfect relief. From… Continue reading
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Good, Democracy and the Fallacy of “My Own Morality”
The question becomes: Can one individual have their own morality? The short answer is no. Only a narcissist can have “their own static morality” and that becomes a diagnosis rather than a morality. Ultimately morality is a social word and… Continue reading
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Good, Dancing Presidents, and Calibrating the Value of a Human Life
When this reader sees bombs exploding and flames leaping across buildings and habitat for some reason I see no reason to celebrate. “Not one American life lost” is presented as the ‘good news’, but later in the news story in… Continue reading
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Good, the Parasite and the Public Ethic
A good parasite does not kill its host or at least not immediately. A good parasite knows at some primitive level that for as long as the host lives, the nutrition flows. But like all other communities of life, some… Continue reading
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Good, Xenophobia and the Gold of Common Ground
The price of gold has had a wild ride in these contemporary economies. That is largely because with gold we can fake it but we can’t make it (yet). Like gold, common ground exists and in terms of value to… Continue reading
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Good, Pure Capitalism, and People as Problem
The unavoidable flaw in pure Capitalism is the spreadsheet is not the whole story even when it is the only book you read. The unavoidable problem for people right now is they are facing a competition that has never existed… Continue reading
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Good and the Fallacy of the Financial Elite
The highest standard of elite in a democracy is the authentic distillation, expression and codification of the public’s authority. Democracy is a public service. Yes, private individuals may have the power to trash the United States White House, but they are not… Continue reading
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Good, AI, and Fogging while Flogging Truth.
The error of this age is the conflation of information with capital “T” Truth. This error is being exponentially accelerated by the misuse of AI combined with the practice of nihilism in our current government. Nihilism as an unspoken philosophy… Continue reading