Jack's New Ethos

Author: Jack Neoveris

  • On Rights and Duties

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    Delegation of responsibility is simply how our society allows for more people to do more things and increase the technological advantage of craft. The more technology develops, the more focused people need to become to manage the complexity, and the less people need to generalize to survive. There are then both positive and negative incentives…

  • On Justice

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    A safe and secure society does not come about on its own, and it is not as simple as keeping people safe from bodily harm either. For there to be a just society, there needs to be a philosophy of what aspects of the human condition we protect, and how we go about making that…

  • On Amorvera

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    Linguistic Anthropology informs us that meaning is crafted by human cultures. This means that before human culture crafts meaning as a mode of assigning values to concepts and things, there is no meaning, no value, to anything. The world is then just an absurd chemical reaction, without any intelligence or purpose behind any of its…

  • On Freedom

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    Humanity’s ability to restructure our behaviors is what gives us our advantage in resource acquisition throughout evolutionary time. Though we can format ourselves and grow comfortable in that format, it is human to radicalize and change behaviors when our resource acquisition process is threatened. I’m not sure if this is instinctual or cultural, but it…

  • On Subterfuge

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    Nations are loosely collected, if not rather diffuse, groupings of corporations that don’t necessarily have a common geopolitical objective. Corporations can be bought out quite easily in their interests, as can politicians, as can grassroots movements. The Chinese have grown quite adept at this practice—I know this, after all, I am a Canadian. Algorithms can…

  • On Moral Temperance

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    Pragmatically, there are few arguments for moral excellence. We are not bee or colony animals, so it simply isn’t human to sacrifice ourselves wholesale for the greater good and think of that as a viable strategy. Now, we have jobs to keep and children to protect—survival is important in the average human ethos. Yet, without…

  • On Sufficient Knowledge

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    Between losing focus and grasping an idea is this wandering state of observation. It is as if the mind is just taking in the shape and form of a concept and noting it, not trying to interpret it or grasp it. It’s kind of like when someone is teaching you to put together a machine…

  • On Unity

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    The troubling issue I see is a matter of nations fostering peace, creating unity, and essentially merging into unions. I see the European Union, NATO, even the United Nations as different levels in attempting to achieve this goal. The challenge of achieving this globally is necessary, since only through unity and global trust can disarmament…

  • On Modern Budgets

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    Ive been doing a lot of math lately, studying what the budget of a middle class American was like at the height of the middle class [1972], and decided to figure out what a person could afford today if we wanted to maintain the same purchasing power, considering that they had 30% disposable income and…

  • On Basic Autopoiesis

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    The human mind is a complex entity, capable of great feats and susceptible to significant struggles. Everyone grapples with their mind, and it’s crucial to remember that mental health should never be used as an excuse to let our potential go to waste. We all have the capacity to function with effort, and it’s our…