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Tag Archives: alienation
Modernity
Many philosophers and other authors use the term modernity for the state of civilization to which the later Enlightenment and the industrial revolution gave rise. The Enlightenment was fundamentally about the rise and presumed applicability of reason and empirical methods … Continue reading
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Tagged absurdism, Albert Camus, alienation, Auguste Comte, Beat Generation, Christianity, Dadaism, disco and philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche, history, liberal democracy, Modernity, myth of progress, nihilism, Philosophy, politics, popular music, punk rock and philosophy, science, scientific philosophy, Sigmund Freud, technology, William James
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Superpowers (With Notes on Rules Versus Controls)
What are superpowers? Do we all have them? How do we develop them? How does formal education interfere with them? How has industrial civilization interfered with their free development and use within populations? Do the activities of ruling elites have something to do with this? How do we take our lives back? Continue reading
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Tagged alienation, alienation in industrial civilization, dystopian science fiction, economics of abundance, free energy, free energy technology, Horace Mann, industrial civilization, kindergarten word origin, Nikola Tesla, psychology motivation, public education criticisms, public schools criticism, ruling elites, scarcity and abundance, superpowers, utopia and dystopia, writing as a career
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Lost Generation Philosopher 