Jan 06, 2024 from nutcroft Manifesting democracy We cannot presuppose a democratic society before its existence. We can only identify a democratic system in a society after such society has existed for a nontrivial amount of time; insofar as demo...
Jan 01, 2024 from nutcroft On the essence of decisions and hope What is a decision and why does it matter? I. One could claim that decisions do not matter insofar they are not actions. Decisions are not facts. They are just something someone said and maybe some...
Dec 11, 2023 from nutcroft Applied anthropology On my way to an anthropology lecture today, I learned much more about humans than I could expect of the lecture. To clarify: the content of the lecture was great yet, with respect to understanding ...
Nov 22, 2023 from Silence Calling Compulsions Like the desire to drink liquor Or the irresistible pleasure of sex
Oct 09, 2023 from Joybuke Stuckism: What Conservative Action Really Is Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, some on the question of Industrialism, others on the corrosion inherit to progress-...
Sep 24, 2023 from Silence Calling Taking Off A plane crawls on ground during taxi But in the same distance it takes off
Sep 24, 2023 from Silence Calling Fire and Speed The plane taking off starts moving fast and fast Increasing speed and moving wings Takes off
Jul 23, 2023 from nutcroft Laniakea Books: Public domain books for everyone Laniakea Books is a publishing house in London, England, which publishes public domain books only. Public domain books are books which their author has relinquished all copyrights and allows everyo...
Jul 19, 2023 from Joybuke Radicals Are Losers Radicals, at least the core base of them, have to, by definition, be losers. People usually only take stances for changing society, especially fundamentally changing society, if they see a problem ...
Jul 18, 2023 from Joybuke The Gardener's Trap Humanity has convenience and choice to such a point it borders on vice. Humanity assumes, due to said convenience and choice being an easy-to-digest abstraction over the complex reality of the worl...
Jul 01, 2023 from nutcroft A birthday invitation 1 July 2023 is a totally not important date for the world but it just happened that I was born exactly 29 Earth circles around the Sun before that date. The thing is, while the Earth is rotating ar...
Jun 27, 2023 from nutcroft Fight Club has the answers It’s a few hours after watching the Fight Club for the second time in my life that I write these words. It's been more than decade since I watched it for the first time and even though I had liked ...
Jun 04, 2023 from Joybuke Lefties Always Come to Meetings Armed Imagine that two kingdoms are at war, let’s call one the Kingdom of Letoid (The Letoids), and the other kingdom is the Kingdom of Righcuk (The Righcuks). These two kingdoms have been at war for 30 ...
May 31, 2023 from nutcroft The misery of applications Our world is now one full of applications. Not the computerised ones, although it’s full of those too. The form-that-you-need-to-fill ones. Applications for jobs, for universities, for conferences,...
May 18, 2023 from nutcroft Negations and characteristics of democracy Let’s attempt to paint what democracy is through its various characteristics and facets. Let’s also talk about the negative space. Understanding what democracy isn’t will help us see the limits of ...
May 03, 2023 from Joybuke The Anatomy of the Rot Concisely, precisely, this article will explain the anatomy of the rot that afflicts society as a whole. The source of this rot, how the rot manifests itself, and the conclusions of what the rot wi...
Apr 11, 2023 from Joybuke Virtue's Accessibility Problem “Vice is easy, virtue is hard” is a common mantra that I don’t believe to be true. The default perception of virtue is that it’s a thing to struggle towards, while vice is very easy to pick up and ...
Apr 08, 2023 from nutcroft A new startup lifecycle I. The philosophy of Posthaven II. The reason startups get acquired III. Sympathy for Posthaven’s founders IV. Suggesting alternative futures for startups V. Conclusion I. The philosophy of Posthav...
