Category: Ethics
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Solidarity
If you want to boil down the American problem to a single issue, then that issue is solidarity — or the lack of it. First, though, it is important to establish context, and that can be explained by paraphrasing Karl Marx (from The German Ideology, 1846): The ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling…
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The Cultural Assumptions That Hold Us Back
I’d like to highlight some of the cultural assumptions that prevent the United States of America from moving toward a better society. While I do believe that it is too late to rectify these issues, addressing them would be a first step in any movement that intended to bring about a more democratic, just, and…
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The Slappening
There was a recent yearly media event wherein the culture of celebrity doubles and even triples down on itself creating a feedback loop of vapid, self-congratulatory bullshit that people who are into that kind of thing cannot help but watch. I’m talking about the Oscars. At said celebrity event, a wealthy celebrity smacked another wealthy…