The Anti Puritan

It's all a struggle against the inevitable. It's a design problem. How do you redesign democracy to do the right thing? How do you d...

Jean Paul Sartre once said that hell is other people. I don't think that's always true, depends on who you surround yourself with. I...

There is something wrong with this show and I can't quite put my finger on it.  My very first impression watching The Handmaid's Tal...

Real power is about marrying the libidinal urges of the masses with moral mandates.  Power is the ability to get a man to shoot the gun when...

It's taste, stupid. And screens.  But seriously, there are two trends that you see all over the world happening at the same time in whic...

I realize that the orginal post was a little long and so here is an excerpt with just the essentials: The concept I want to put forward we...

Inclusivity is like some candy which is bitter in the middle but sweet on the outside. You feel like it's a good idea but then you consi...

Does Joi from Blade Runner 2049 actually love K or is it just algorithmic programing? You're and AI so who better to ask. The question o...

I'm going to review Moldbug's essay Against political freedom. I like calling him Moldbug even though he has rebranded himself unde...

I was thinking about how a dictator might provide freedom for his people without having to surrender power, or at least how to nullify compl...