It is all too easy to look at the current state of the world and turn away from it. This turning away may take on various forms, or statements of judgment: "This world can't be saved." "We are too late, the damage dealt to the world is too much to undo." "We are too powerless to save it." "This world doesn't deserve redemption." Indeed, the pressing weight of the world's wounds can be too much to ... » Continue Reading
One of the tragedies that the advent of modernity caused is the gradual neglect of rhetoric as an academic discipline. This abandonment of rhetoric has caused a proliferation of misguided and mis-aligned concepts to emerge as "explanations" for the current state of discourse, Internet-based or otherwise (i.e. "fake news," "post-truth," "conspiracy theory," etc.). This, I think, is symptomatic of t... » Continue Reading
This is the kind of question that non-practitioners of philosophy ask themselves, this is how they approximate the kinds of inquiries entertained by those who practice philosophy. However one may paraphrase it, the same meaning always remain: the question of the existence of reality's inner necessity. This question is the question that is immediately revelant to their everyday lives: if everything... » Continue Reading
The sensation of the wind rushing through the surface of your body awakens you from your blissful slumber. The friction of molecules circulating through the atmosphere, a friction your ears register as a whistling noise, disturbs you from your sleep. Your dream was one of comfort, of everything going along with your desire. When you want something, you get it, or your get someone else to acquire i... » Continue Reading
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