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superfluousman (54)in #philosophy • 5 years ago
Group Identity and Collectivism
Some time has past since I wrote an article about the misuses of social terms as a way to quickly sketch out an idea about how identifying into certain groups often morphs…
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superfluousman (54)in #politics • 7 years ago
Economism: The Philosophy of Wealth Being Everything
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible to a class of citizens to give to another—Voltaire @Vieira's recent post on how social hierarchy works…
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superfluousman (54)in #life • 7 years ago
The Four Monsters and its Cures
Eastern and Western ways of thinking, or any kind of cultural characteristics, are usually separated as two distinct modes of interpreting what one understands. This supposedly…
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superfluousman (54)in #anarchy • 7 years ago
How to Increase Social Power
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.—Voltaire The State is…
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superfluousman (54)in #nature • 7 years ago
For the Students of Human Nature
Anthropologists, archeologists, philosophers, and all others studying the nature of man quite often take the mainstream approach that humans has been evolving for the last…
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superfluousman (54)in #psychology • 8 years ago
Opinion and Temperament
Whenever I browse social media, even here on Steemit, it's interesting to note how people give their opinions and arrange their thoughts in a manner in which they believe to be…
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superfluousman (54)in #writing • 8 years ago
Why Write?
Writing is done by nearly everyone becoming so ubiquitous that you forget it's anything substantial or unique. After speech, writing is our only means of communication that…
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superfluousman (54)in #freedom • 8 years ago
An Original Contract
The use of contracts is the common way individuals, especially those engaged in business functions, come together and set forth conditions in which each side agrees on. Its…
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superfluousman (54)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
The Unpleasantness of Certainty
A criticism you'll often hear about people who hold onto firm beliefs without looking at the possibilities is that they are being overly dogmatic, rigid to the point of…
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superfluousman (54)in #education • 8 years ago
Starved From the Humanities
Don't read your fellow-strivers, fellow-workers...—Goethe I've been noticing recently, a yearning for intellectual and spiritual support among those going along with the…
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superfluousman (54)in #education • 8 years ago
A Great Labor Saver
One of the most common things about our age, increasingly so as everything becomes digitized, is the impatience among people in regards to seeking information and knowledge. I…
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superfluousman (54)in #money • 8 years ago
Truth and Marketability
During my relatively short time on this planet I've come to realize truth is a never ending search, this should be obvious to anyone who engages in a life of ideas; but a…
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superfluousman (54)in #life • 8 years ago
The Art of Letting Things Alone
What makes things work on their own is natural, simple, and beautiful aspect of life. It's a sophisticated aesthetic present in all things, it just takes a good eye to notice…
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superfluousman (54)in #health • 8 years ago
Chasing the Symptoms
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.—Amos Bronson Alcott Medicine, under the conventional way it's been understood, is the body of knowledge and…
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superfluousman (54)in #freedom • 8 years ago
Necessities in Humanity
I was watching some seagulls on a pier, it seemed like they were just chillin', but after paying close attention it came to me that they were waiting for something, either food…
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superfluousman (54)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
Thoughts on Natural Rights
Thinking about the subject of "natural rights" and the way justice is suppose to work, it's sort of trying to understand a misnomer; no such thing as rights exist in and of…
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superfluousman (54)in #technology • 8 years ago
The Triumph of Standardization
...an offensive against the unpredictability, unpunctuality, general waywardness and cussedness of living nature including man.—E. F. Shumacher Over the past three centuries…
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superfluousman (54)in #art • 8 years ago
Style, Workmanship, and Enjoyment
I was recently watching some of the Pipeline Masters, the last stop on the World Surf League tour in North Shore, Oahu, where I became sort of disturbed at the lack of general…
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superfluousman (54)in #history • 8 years ago
A Parallel America
In North American vernacular it's common to distinguish South and North America as a separate continent. I don't remember the exact details of where or how this came to be…
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superfluousman (54)in #education • 8 years ago
The Educational Caste System
A lot has been said about the current state of education, how bad it is or how things need to be changed. Not being part of its official milieu anymore, whenever I hear people…
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