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Tag Archives: Ethics
Consider the Chickens
Intelligence, ethics, and the inner lives of animals By Rafia Zakaria Source: The Baffler I OWE CHICKENS AN APOLOGY. Not only have I been eating them until very recently, but I have refused to even consider the possibility of a … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged animal rights, cognitive science, Consciousness, culture, environment, Ethics, Evolution, Intelligence Community, Justin Gregg, Nietzsche Were a Narwhal, Philosophy, science, society
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RESISTING TYRANNY DEPENDS ON THE COURAGE TO NOT CONFORM
By Barry Brownstein Source: Waking Times Social psychologist Roy Baumeister begins his book Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty, with a proposition that will be counterintuitive to many: “Evil usually enters the world unrecognized by the people who open the door … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, divide and conquer, Dystopia, media, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Conformity, Covid-19, culture, dehumanization, Ethics, evil, fascism, Freedom, Gordon Allport, Government, Morality, Nazi, obedience, Philosophy, police state, Roy Baumeister, society, surveillance state, Vaccines
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The semi-satisfied life
Renowned for his pessimism, Arthur Schopenhauer was nonetheless a conoisseur of very distinctive kinds of happiness By David Bather Woods Source: aeon On 13 December 1807, in fashionable Weimar, Johanna Schopenhauer picked up her pen and wrote to her 19-year-old … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Spirituality
Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, asceticism, Buddhism, dukkha, Ethics, happiness, Pessimism, Philosophy, psychology, recollection, Schadenfreude, Stoicism, Suffering
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The Heart of Darkness: The Sexual Predators Within America’s Power Elite
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensating to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered territories) will do … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Law, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Alexander Acosta, Bill Clinton, Brave New World, child sex trafficking, conspiracy, culture, DC Madam, Donald Trump, Dystopia, elites, Ethics, Eyes Wide Shut, Government Corruption, Jeffrey Epstein, Oligarchy, Patriarchy, pedophiles, Plutocracy, police state, Sexual Predators, society
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When the state is unjust, citizens may use justifiable violence
By Jason Brennan Source: aeon If you see police choking someone to death – such as Eric Garner, the 43-year-old black horticulturalist wrestled down on the streets of New York City in 2014 – you might choose to pepper-spray them … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Law, Philosophy, police state, Revolution, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged active self-defense, Authority, civil disobedience, Eric Garner, Ethics, Government, Injustice, law, Philosophy, police state, Police Violence, racism, Social Change, When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice
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Newsletter: From Neoliberal Injustice To Economic Democracy
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Source: Dissident Voice The work to transform society involves two parallel paths: resisting harmful systems and institutions and creating new systems and institutions to replace them. Our focus in this article is on positive work that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, culture, Economics, Energy, Philosophy, Revolution, society, Sociology
Tagged activism, Community Land Trusts, Cooperatives, Decentralization, Democracy, Economic Democracy, Economics, empire, Empire Economy, Ethics, Friedrich Hayek, imperialism, John Maynard Keynes, Mutual Aid, Neoliberalism, Public Banks, Public Finance, resistance, Solar Energy, Styagraha, Swaraj, Universal Basic Income
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Keeping The Portal Open: Erik Davis on TechGnosis and the Blurring “Real” & “Virtual”
By Michael Garfield Source: Reality Sandwich Erik Davis is the author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, & Mysticism in the Age of Information (recently reissued by North Atlantic Books with a new afterword). An investigation into how our transcendental urges play out in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Environment, Film, History, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Anthropocene, civilization, Consciousness, Dystopia, Economics, Entheogens, environment, Erik Davis, Ethics, Internet, media, Psychedelics, Quantified Self, Science fiction, surveillance state, Techgnosis, technology
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#ACAB: Why the Institution of Policing Makes All Cops Bastards
By PM Beers Source: AntiMedia All cops are bastards because all cops, if ordered to, will enforce laws that oppress poor people. Many people would like to believe that there are good cops and bad cops. I’m going to explain … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil liberties, conditioning, Corruption, culture, divide and conquer, Economics, History, Law, Militarization, police state, Social Control, society
Tagged activism, Anarchism, Anarchy, Authority, Class Warfare, Cops, Ethics, Institutional Racism, law, police, police state, Policing
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