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Oct 26, 2019

What Would Happen if White Men Disappeared from Earth?

For much of recent history, certainly since industrialization, it isn’t hard to find a white hand somewhere in the chain of command leading to many of the world’s atrocities, or at least those that we in the west are the most aware of. Often it is the significant hand, the…

Racism

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What Would Happen if White Men Disappeared from Earth?
What Would Happen if White Men Disappeared from Earth?

Oct 11, 2019

Are We Doomed?

Arctic ice melting like Mr Whippy on a stove, Ocean life extinguished lightning fast like Messi facing goal, Night temperatures rising like the price of granary rolls, Psychopaths delight in buying shares in black gold. Paris climate talks took place at a time When global temperatures were 1 degree above baseline. They…

Climate Change

2 min read

Are We Doomed?
Are We Doomed?

Oct 8, 2019

Power and Free Speech

Two conjoined twins, Mohamed and Kristina, often argue, but share a beating heart. — On this occasion, they are arguing about who gets to eat the one candy bar they have left. Their evil stepfather Josef snaps it in half and offers one piece to each of them. Just as they are about to enjoy their share, Mohamed notices that Kristina’s piece is a…

Power

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Power and Free Speech
Power and Free Speech

Mar 26, 2019

The Likelihood of a Computational God

For the purpose of this essay, the word ‘God’ is defined as an entity capable of creating realities in which subjective experience is possible. This piece does not claim to address the likelihood of a prime mover; only to discuss the possibilities of a creator of this particular subjective reality…

Artificial Intelligence

11 min read

The Certainty of a Computational God
The Certainty of a Computational God

Feb 25, 2019

We Need to Talk About VR Porn

Not long ago I wrote an article about ‘Hubris’, an as yet unofficial (in terms of the DSM manual of psychological disorders) condition in which symptoms similar to those found in psychopaths and narcissists may present themselves in individuals with high status. …

Pornography

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We Need to Talk About VR Porn
We Need to Talk About VR Porn

Feb 5, 2019

The Left are Laying an Authoritarian Framework for Their Opponents

As someone who spent much of their twenties drifting in and out of activism, generally about issues related to corporate excess, violent discrimination, oil wars and climate change, I have grown frustrated to see left leaning political dialogue now mostly dominated in the mainstream by voices seemingly more concerned with…

Politics

6 min read

The Left are Laying an Authoritarian Framework for Their Opponents
The Left are Laying an Authoritarian Framework for Their Opponents

Feb 1, 2019

Beauty and the Patriarchy

If we remove any subjective morality and ideological leanings from our interpretations of this video, and look at it through an evolutionary lens, it is fascinating to say the least that a group of individuals within any species would consciously take an action that serves to limit the number of…

Feminism

11 min read

Beauty and the Patriarchy
Beauty and the Patriarchy

Sep 3, 2018

Should You Draw Mohammed?

In our imagined ideal worlds, our future is rosy with progress being achieved on all fronts. We expect our standards of living, our tolerance and understanding of others, and the extent of world peace, among many other societal yardsticks, to gradually improve as the years and decades roll by. So…

Politics

7 min read


Aug 27, 2018

Lifestyle Habits to Prevent or Beat Depression

How low have you ever been? Perhaps you are at your lowest point now, or you have yet to experience a truly low period of your life. …

Mental Health

15 min read


Aug 22, 2018

Why are Some Places More Relaxed than Others?

And with the power cut comes an increase in the already prevalent inactivity. Why are some countries so relaxed that they haven’t even got some of their most basic shit together, such as a power grid that doesn’t suffer remarkably frequent outages? Cultural memes behave similarly to genetics, in that…

Laziness

3 min read

Why are Some Places More Relaxed than Others?
Why are Some Places More Relaxed than Others?
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