A person is the temple of God. Inasmuch one neglects his or herself or others they abandon God. When born, a person has native tendency and capacities, referred to in developmental psychology as core knowledge (Spelke & Kinnzler, 2007). These are innate structures that guide learning in specific areas. This is a natural consequence of … Continue reading The Neglect of the Soul and the Robbery of Agency
The Mockery of a Rules-Based Order, Human Rights and a Free State in the Persecution of Julian Assange
The United States of America was founded by people seeking religious and economic freedom. The vagrants, rejects and hopefuls of European society got on boats to start a New World, to wipe the slate clean and begin on a level playing field. The hereditary lines, the aristocracies and the monarchies of their past would not … Continue reading The Mockery of a Rules-Based Order, Human Rights and a Free State in the Persecution of Julian Assange
The Failure of the University
"名不正，則言不順" Translation: If names be not correct, language is not in accord with the truth of things. Paraphrased: The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. Confucius, Analects, 5th millennium BC, Chapter 13 The university does not work as it does not mean its name. Uni-, -versity refers to a single … Continue reading The Failure of the University
Life is Not a Show
Modernity denotes an age that never ends. It is just contemporaneity. To that extent, modernity, postmodernity, the ancients: all of it fails to describe their epochs: the temporal markers are derivative streams that lack substantive content. Philosophical definition sought final anchors, necessary and sufficient conditions that identify the subject according to its content, not relative … Continue reading Life is Not a Show
The Lost Project of Psychology
As a discipline, psychology considers the nature of the mind: its origins, function and relationship with the world. It has a long history, though its experimental setting was established in the mid-19th century by the German researcher Gustav Fechner. Beginning his research as a physicist, he established the discipline of psychophysics: mathematizing the mind through … Continue reading The Lost Project of Psychology
My Renunciation of The Academy
When I became interested by the power of truth in my high school economics class, I became enamored with the Ivory Tower. Not the faux-, immature form as insulated elites, but the near military truth-based social-educational organization that taught its members and discovered and codified knowledge. This tower began in North America as centers of … Continue reading My Renunciation of The Academy
The Fruits of Knowledge
The consequences of technology are plural, with many cascade effects. In this essay, I examine the synergy of technology and humanity. Our use of technology involves the fundamental principle of technological use: their primary human cost and secondary technological gain. Broadly speaking, technology undoes original human capacity and enfolds it into technological power. There is … Continue reading The Fruits of Knowledge
The Errors of the Federal Reserve
It was 1913, and the Progressive Era was in full swing. Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft had been cracking down on big business for a decade, workers’ rights were increasing through enlarging governmental power, and President Woodrow Wilson, in response to the banking crisis of 1907, drafted the Federal Reserve Act into law. The ideals … Continue reading The Errors of the Federal Reserve
Veracity as Virtue 