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Author Archives: Steven Yates
Back to Basics (3). Self-Improvement As a Core Value
Self-improvement is the final core value, and so this completes this series of three articles. Stoicism is the ancient philosophy that merges philosophy generally with self-improvement, and perhaps this is why there is so much interest in Stoicism today. Continue reading
Posted in applied philosophy, personal development, Philosophy
Tagged applied philosophy, better every day, core values, Dale Carnegie, Darren Hardy, David Hume, Four Cardinal Errors, influence and persuasion, Is man a rational animal, Medium, personal development, self help and philosophy, self improvement, Steven Yates, stoicism, systems theory, systems thinking, What Should Philosophy Do?, Zeno of Citium
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Back to Basics (2). Freedom As a Core Value
Is freedom one of your core values? Why or why not? What is freedom? What’s so great about it? If you are not free, what is blocking your freedom? What can you do to remove the blocks to your freedom, be they personal or societal? Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged bad parenting, Brave New World, core values, digital ID, Do we live in a democracy?, Frederic Douglass speech, Freedom Philosophy, global ID, globalism, H.L. Mencken, helicopter parents, Orwell 1984, revolution vs reform, self-help, self-improvement, separatism, Steven Yates, surveillance and control, Technocracy, vaccine conspiracies, What is freedom?, What Should Philosophy Do?
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Back to Basics (1). Truth-telling: A Core Value
Truth-telling is a core value, and remains such despite the frequent difficulties of finding out what the truth is and then communicating it. Continue reading
Posted in analytic philosophy, Philosophy
Tagged C.S. Peirce, C.S. Pierce, censorship, censorship arguments against, core values, fallibilism, G.E. Moore, In Defense of Common Sense, John Stuart Mill, Plato Descartes Kant, Platonism, realism, Richard Rorty, theories of truth, truth, truth and reality, truth telling, truthtelling, What Should Philosophy Do?
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Philosophy “Still in the Doldrums”
Is “philosophy still in the doldrums”? Arguably so. Based on a blog post and a comment from seven years past. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Continue reading
Essay: Reading Richard Rorty’s “Achieving Our Country” Published on Medium and Substack (and announcing The Clarity Factory)
This essay examines the late philosopher Richard Rorty’s alleged prediction of the rise of Donald Trump as well as the background. This includes Rorty’s conception of the difference between Right and Left, the Two Lefts that have influenced American politics and culture respectively, and how the inability of the Cultural Left to speak to matters of economic concern to mostly rural and working whites fueled Donald Trump’s rise. After an assessment of what Rorty got right versus what he got wrong, I conclude with a few remarks about where we might go next. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Election 2016 and Aftermath, Philosophy, Political Economy
Tagged Achieving Our Country, Cultural Left, Globalism and Leftism, Globalization and Leftism, Reformist Left, Richard Rorty, Rise of Trumpism, Rorty on Left and Right, Rorty predicts rise of Trump, Rorty predicts Trump
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The Five Stages of COVID Vaccine Compliance/Coercion Explained: A Dialogue
COVID-19 vaccines known to be experimental are being distributed worldwide, with mandates, passports, and passes going into place. This is becoming increasingly coercive, and is being resisted by certain segments of the population. Are the resisters simply repeating misinformation they found on the Internet, or is something really deadly and dangerous going on here that we should all know about? Who or what is really behind what has become the biggest crisis of our time? A dialogue to explore the issues. Continue reading
Posted in Coronavirus, Media, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Science and Technology, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Anthony Fauci lied, Coronavirus and New World Order, coronavirus COVID-19, coronavirus COVID-19 conspiracy theories, Covid-19 bioweapon, COVID-19 dystopia, COVID-19 engineered collapse, COVID-19 Great Reset, COVID-19 lockdown, Covid-19 vaccines, Covid-19 vaccines and mandates, EcoHealth Alliance, Event 201, globalists and Covid-19, Great Reset, systemic coercion, vaccine passports, Wuhan virus
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Peter Singer on Making COVID Vaccines Legally Mandatory
Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer has argued that COVID-19 vaccines should be mandatory for essentially the same reasons that seat belts in automobiles are legally mandatory. In this short comment I respond that his argument collapses under scrutiny that reveals numerous disanalogies between seat belts and the COVID vaccines. Continue reading
Lost Generation Philosopher Looks Critically at Critical Race Theory
Critical race theory: exposure of American racism and its history? the latest form of academic Marxism?… or a major distraction from the real problems we face? Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Philosophy, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged 1619 Project, Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Theory and Philosophy, Critical Theory, CRT, Cultural Marxism, Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse, Identity Politics, Kimberle Crenshaw, Marxism classical versus cultural, Nikole Hannah-Jones, philosophy of race, political correctness, power elite, superelites, systemic racism, white privilege, whiteness
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James Howard Kunstler – Everyone Interested in Truth Should Be Reading His Writings
James Howard Kunstler exploded the myths of our culture of mass consumption and disposability years ago; more recently, he’s been exploding those of the cult of wokery, the oh-so-convenient pandemic, and the idea beloved in elite media that last year’s election was honest and above-board. So what happens next? Continue reading
Mother. Snapshots of Lives Outside the Limelight #1
Author’s note: this was written on April 14, and is the first in an occasional series profiling ordinary people whose lives touched mine one way or another, sometimes in a big way, helping shape who I am and the views I presently hold. It is something of an experiment. If people like it, I will continue with it. I post it here for Mother’s Day. Continue reading
Lost Generation Philosopher 