...where the Two become the One
In the modern political landscape, terms are often wielded as weapons, their original meanings obscured by the fog of partisan conflict. Few terms have suffered this fate more than “liberalism.” To understand the world today, we must look back to its philosophical ancestor: classical liberalism. This is not merely a historical political position but a comprehensive philosophy of freedom, rooted in the Enlightenment, that champions the sovereign individual as the […] Read more »
Tikkun olam, a Hebrew phrase meaning “repairing the world,” is a Jewish ethical concept emphasizing acts of justice, charity, and social improvement to fulfill moral responsibilities. In practice, it often inspires advocacy for progressive policies, which some critique as leaning toward legislated morality rather than voluntary action. Legislating morality refers to the use of government laws and policies to enforce ethical or moral standards, often prioritizing collective compliance over individual […] Read more »
In a way, AI has provided a means to integrate the process of writing and the outcome into one thing, but only as long as the question is pure, and the AI being queried has some capacity to reason in a multilogical fashion. This makes it seem like “magic”, much like the 9th level of consciousness in spiral dynamics, which is called “the return to magic”, but it isn’t magic […] Read more »
From a Charlie Chaplin movie — hint, he was an anarchist. Read more »
Fascism is a form of socialism, that’s why “Nazi” stood for the “National Socialists”, and they are no further on the right of the political spectrum than the other forms of socialists, communists included. Ironically, those on the left may claim that their socialist State should or does serve their interests, but that is a farce, as the State is always served in all forms of Socialism; its “motherly love” […] Read more »