"We now live in a technologically prepared environment that blankets the earth itself. The humanly contrived environment of electric information and power has begun to take precedence over the old environment of "nature." Nature, as it were, begins to be the content of our technology."
- Marshall McLuhan

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Not totally a fan...but he's right about some things.....

ennui "On-WEE" : A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement — boredom, but with a heavier existential weight to it.

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Does it? Maybe some places....

The cannibalistic nature of life is actually really disturbing....

"For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?"
- Desiderius Erasmus

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I love Emil, but I can't get behind this relativism. Disapproval of somebody's haircut or clothing is not a reason to kill them. Severity is everything....

In that missed necessity or worry about potential problems is uncontrolled stress and suffering.....also, whether you understand or not MONEY can solve this issue as well without understanding......

Well, the states have to maintain justice...

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"By involving all men in all men, by the electric extension of their own nervous systems, the new technology turns the figure of the primitive society into a universal ground that buries all previous figures."
- Marshall McLuhan

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Respecting the humanity of the amoral is self-defeating, but a good humanist takes the hit...to a point.

What you mean is the people you hate you make ridiculous to yourself.... praying to "God" to do the work you did already....

Alright....here's the piece I referred to earlier...Universality is unquestionable! I'm not even going to waste time entertaining arguments against....

https://open.substack.com/pub/axiomaticpanic/p/universality-is-unquesti…

When I say "Universality is unquestionable!" that bothers a lot of people. Identity particularities like nationalism, classism, religious groups have a vested interest in assuring everything in philosophy remains questionable...especially WITH the support of those who do the right thing by choice. When it's right...it deserves to be crystallized.....identity particularity shouldn't control all unquestionable truths....Substack piece inbound...

I struggle with this too, as it is necessary for me to call the Board of Word Creation and make an appeal to add to the word "Universality" so it can fit the role I've assigned to it....creating new words won't work when current words fill specific spaces.....

"If it is my interest to have a farm, it is my interest to take it away from my neighbour; if it is my interest to have a cloak, it is my interest also to steal it from a bath. This is the source of wars, seditions, tyrannies, plots."
- Epictetus

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A revised utilitarian perspective that reseats the ideal and supports universality....

axiomaticpanic.substack.com/p/eve…