HeyJaredFuzzy Democracy
1. Electoral reform: Parliaments without parties. 2. Character & Ethics. 3. Rescuing Checks & Balances. Please note: I write from an Enlightenment perspective and, well-versed, am hostile to what is commonly called Christianity. And to anything occult.
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Models of Masculinity (opens the original)
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The life of a woman is always quite different to the life of a man. She may assume manly virtues and roles, but this assumption does not change the fundamentals, which are not even-handed. In one regard the life of most women is simpler; not easier, but by default better defined. Certain imperatives are imposed by nature. It is the absence of definition which makes masculinity challenging.Until middle age the life of a woman is shaped by monthly rhythms and interruptions. More importantly, ferti
Beauty is truth, truth beauty (opens the original)
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“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know.”Closing lines of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats200 wordsCertainly, one needs to know a great deal more. But there lies one difference between poetry and philosophy.As Western civilisation nears its likely end, attention has passed, in the manner of a rearguard action, to the imperative of truth against those who care nothing either for truth or reason. Strictly speaking, what counts is not the imperative
Simone Weil on Political Parties (opens the original)
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Simone Weil : On the general suppression of political parties “A political party is a machine to manufacture collective passion. “A political party is an organisation designed to exercise a collective pressure on the thought of each human being who is a member. The first aim, and, in the final analysis, the sole aim of every political party is its own growth, and this without limit. “Through this triple character, any party is totalitarian by nature and aspiration. When it it not, it is simply b
Against Universal Love (opens the original)
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The starting point of the deliberations below is that human beings are enormously varied. Putting animal needs and instincts aside, it is not the case that we all share so very much and can unite on common ground.On the contrary, it is better to think in terms of archetypes which are not all compatible with each other. We can rejoice in many people being different to ourselves because they bring talents and behaviour which create a prosperity that would be impossible if we depended only on kindr
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