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Tag Archives: decline of the West
The Grandest Narrative (II: Decline and Fall)
I’m not an architect or a construction engineer, but I know enough to know that if you want to erect a tall building, you start with a sturdy foundation. The foundation must be in place to hold stable all that … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotelianism-Christianity, Books, Christianity decline influence, Civilization and Christianity, Collapse narratives, decline of the West, first principles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Humanity made in God's Image, Mutually Assured Destruction, Nietzsche, Nietzsche "advent of nihilism", Philosophy, post truth, power unleashed, Religion, Russell "A Free Man's Worship", social constructs
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Auguste Comte’s Law of Three Stages: What It Is, Why the Third Stage is Dying, What Comes Next. (A Major Statement.)
[Note: this may be the longest blog post I have ever made on this site. The result of several weeks of effort, it may be read as a progress report on what may turn into my life’s work: if I … Continue reading
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Tagged abiogenesis, capitalism vs. socialism, Christianity and Human Rights, Comte, Darwin, decline of the West, Dmitry Orlov, Edward Bernays, existentialism, God and philosophy, Law of Three Stages, materialism, meliorism, political economy, R Buckminster Fuller, science and religion, stages of collapse, stop abortion now, sustainability, The Enlightenment, theory of evolution
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