Utilitarianism defines good as “the greatest happiness for the greatest number”. It’s an aspiration to make real choices based on an ultimate goal that’s an ideal, not a dogma. This short article tries to explain what that means.Read More
Google: “How do I use your laptop webcam as a camera for your smartphone?” It used to be an art, finding the best wording to put into Google, to narrow down results until they’re on point, no matter how esoteric the info searched for. It’s a major problem: corporatized tech the world over is devolving. It’s the opposite of progress. Tech itself is improving but function is degrading. This must stop.Read More
How did a mere academic movement of the mid 20th-century metastasize – over less than three generations – into a neo-identitarian phenomenon powerful enough to be assimilating venerable institutions whole departments at a time? Public opinion (and therefore policy) is being subordinated to a consensus mediocrity, hostile to talent, individuality and merit. Is society helpless against this confederacy of dunces; or is there a deeper more sapient power dynamic embedded in postmodernism’s banality substrate?Read More
“We simply don’t have the testing capacity for the large numbers dying at home. Now only those few who had a test confirmation *before* dying are marked as victims of coronavirus… means we are undercounting the total number of victims of this pandemic.” – Mark Levine, Chair of New York City Council health committee.Read More
Data on coronavirus test kit options covering the three basic types we’ll need to mass-produce and distribute widely, or else prolong lockdown or be forced into a gamble that might cost millions of lives.Read More
When you move through the world on foot it is slow, but the detail is unparalleled. Distilled into memory, the space and time become navigable at the speed of thought; the fastest speed you can imagine. We can call this taking possession and none of the ‘faster’ modes of travel take ownership of space in this way. Walking is therefore the fastest and the best and the most bohème way to move through the world.Read More
Today, three full generations after its birth in the 1940s, postmodern thinking has engendered a uniquely degraded democratization of creative ambition. It has subordinated individual originality and culture to consumerism. This piece is an exercise in therapy but useful for anyone keen for a definition of post-modernism, the cultural coronavirus against which we have no vaccine. Yet.Read More
In the year 2055, time travel has become a practical reality, and the company Time Safari Inc. offers wealthy adventurers the chance to travel back in time to hunt extinct species such as dinosaurs. In the shadow of a Presidential election, the spectre of America’s first Fascist candidate looms. Eckets, a hunter, hires a guided safari, traveling back 66 million years, to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex…Read More
Conspiracy theories have always existed, filling the unsettling gaps in knowledge of the world with comfortably self-congratulatory explanation. Like nationalism, the conspiracy theory is a mechanism for controlling the non-conformists. This type of thinking has a growing influence on real power structures (e.g. elections). Society is putting its future at risk by allowing these mechanisms to run wild for short-term political gain. But can we ever regulate the groupthink?Read More
Orania in South Africa is a land for whites only. What’s more, it’s for Afrikaner whites, descendants of the first white Boer (Dutch) settlers dispossed by the British 120 years ago. Orania is the expression of the original separatist white Afrikaner dream. It’s peaceful, safe and prosperous. It is also written up around the world as a white racist ethnostate. What’s the reality, behind dichotomy of determined Oranian smiles and universal “woke” condemnation?Read More
All over the world, seemingly mild cases of COVID-19 rapidly morph into severe cases that involve the lower lungs. In a third or more cases this may be attributed to “the cytokine storm.” Find out more here.Read More
What’s the current state of play with coronavirus testing, both for active infection and post-virus antibody immunity? What’s the non-hype non-fakenews status of the various peer-reviewed therapeutics? This piece is full of useful answers.Read More
“We simply don’t have the testing capacity for the large numbers dying at home. Now only those few who had a test confirmation *before* dying are marked as victims of coronavirus… means we are undercounting the total number of victims of this pandemic.” – Mark Levine, Chair of New York City Council health committee.Read More