Good and Nihilism: Belief’s Default and the Mind’s Hammock

philosophy

  • Good and Nihilism: Belief’s Default and the Mind’s Hammock

    Nihilism, as this writer understands it, is simply giving up on critical thought, meaning, purpose, or any activity that hasn’t a discernible paycheck or minimally the thrill of retribution on the backend of the effort. Nihilism is apparently making a… Continue reading

  • Good, AI, and When a Secretive Force becomes a Secret Police

    When you hear of secret deportation flights, plain clothes agents, masked enforcers, cyber investigations and attempts by government to breach the the firewalls of citizen privacy in Social Security, IRS, and Human Services, than the current secretive enforcement campaign can… Continue reading

  • Good, Gold, and Gilding: A Deception

    The Gilded Age entertainments so popular these days, are in reality, shows of obscenely wealthy people living in golden bird cages mounted on the backs of the working poor and middle class.  Those glittery people’s lives are made possible by… Continue reading

  • Good, Thriving and The Cost of “I”

    “The master trend in recent Western culture has been to emancipate the individual from the group, and now we are paying the social and spiritual price.”   David Brooks, New York Times It is as if a meteorite just hit North… Continue reading

  • Good and Submitting to Nature and Wilderness

    My wife and I climbed a steep arroyo yesterday just above Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.  There were a few things for us to always consider in the back country in New Mexico.  The first is to stay together if… Continue reading

  • Good, Ethics, Breaking the Law and Country

    Ethics are mediating devices through which  humanity can prevent the rule of law from becoming a tyrant.  Every human person is infinitely complex and every human law is profoundly  limited due to that individual complexity.  The law is most definitely… Continue reading

  • Good, Discovering Reality, Justice, and Imagination

    This country could only end up in this set of circumstances through the lazy neglect of imagination.  The working phrase is: “Imagine how you would feel if . . . . . .?”.   The alternative to imagination, particularly in deciding… Continue reading

  • Good, Faux and True Authenticity, and Survival

    One of our political parties is looking at the attribute ‘authenticity’ to strengthen their political approach. The challenge with authenticity is that it is nearly impossible to fake or predict. Our current leader is probably where he is because he… Continue reading

  • Good, Empathy, Conscience and War

    This writer scans the news for actual facts and waits for the information to either contradict or confirm existing versions of what might be true. This morning of course, the headlines screamed WAR. And below that prospect were the news… Continue reading

  • Good and What is Deeper than Opportunism?

    Capitalism and the American system take heavy criticism for being opportunistic.  Some of that criticism is profoundly merited and some slightly hypocritical.  We all tend to love opportunity when it serves our cause.   The legal system is being exploited and… Continue reading