@mattsh4393
Aussie. PhD Philosophy, Social Theory, MA Public Policy (focus: higher ed), Dip Counselling. Author of books and articles on history of ideas, political theory, Stoicism & bullying/mobbing, and the ideologues of the far right. Concerned about democracy.
Eagleton wrote in 2010: "Fascism must be resisted, but are conventional liberalism and humanism really up to the task? Isn't liberalism as much a spineless doctrine as an honourable one?" The US's answer 2015-26, #democrats, is "no," + "yes". All the civics was predicated on it not bg threatened.
300 years in let’s call it. The enlightenment has been defeated.
u have to wonder about the humans who hate our condition so much that they are spending trillions on overcoming it, or supplanting it with superintelligent machines. Such misanthropy, behind the glitz.
1500 words on Why Camus Matters (Bloomsbury, April) and why Camus does matter more than for decades.
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The fog of war #Iran #epsteinfiles
Unclear whether it any longer natters in the US, but c’etait vrai.
I am old enough to remember when honesty and decency mattered. Over the hill.
Shame. Shame. Shame. When will principle stand up to moronism, contempt, and the rule of force? bringingthemtheplague.medium.com/nobel-panel-...
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"When Cruelty Seems Like a Joke" Disturbing. Gloating derision 4 o hmnbeings (+cold bureaucratisation) sms necy 4 perps in mass atrocities. psych defence v realities? in-grp bonding? symbolic dbling of physical indignities visited on victims? all of above?
I love the high school level abuse these guys sell at the highest levels of power.-callong Spirngstein a "loser". Oww, scary!! What a farse. One day they will be gone, and no one will remember them except with scorn and derision. Terrible to c the US fall so low.
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My latest from my Newletter, Kal Draws The Line. To see more cartoons like this, check out the link in bio and comments below.
"To gain that tremendous energy of greatness in order, thru breeding &....the extermination of millions of failures, to shape the man of the future & not perish of the suffering one creates, the like of wh has never existed!" #Nietzsche 1884. HowTF did postmodern liberals sanctify this man?
"Where is someone...among us who would deprive himself like Julian, Antoninus & M. Aurelius, of all the refined accommodations of our delicate & luxurious ways...? Who would, like them, sleep on the bare ground?…where are the sages...the just and tolerant, serene and undaunted souls? #Voltaire
bringingthemtheplague.medium.com/7-ways-to-fi... #creativity #innovation #invention #francisbacon
so unwise to have given so much power to people who are misanthropic, and accepted "Freedom" as a free pass for irresponsible innovation which disregards social effects, or scorns them. www.thenerdreich.com/you-dont-nee...
“What is the object of philosophy? It is to bind people by an exchange of ideas, and by mutual beneficence …” Denis #Diderot. How Diderot would have despised what has become of the love of wisdom in postneoliberal academe.
"He that cld force us to good, cld force us to evil. The 1st despot, fair, firm, & enlightened, is a scourge; a 2nd, a bully, ...is a greater scourge; a 4rd that looks like the 1st 2, by forgetting the rights of the people, consummates their slavery" Denis #Diderot. It can be done in one man too.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
ICE Detention Facilities
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A royal herald is seen in full 18th century regalia, reading from a scroll: “Hear ye hear ye! By order of his royal highness Donald Trump, champion of the grift and perpetuator of nonsensical things: Climate change is herby cancelled and planet Earth shall immediately return to normal conditions! Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Crowning Achievement in Denial.
Pam Bondi
For @rawstory.com
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Just us. #DOJ
Finally some moral clarity and fight as yr democracy is pulled apart by gangsters. medium.com/bouncin-and-...
"History shows that wars can b lost before they r...declared if defenders surrender...terrain w/out a struggle. 4 #universities, that terrain is.. Hmn intelligence itself. If we do not fight...now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
