Category: Ethics
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On the World
The world is what it is, there ought to be no denying that. A grand chemical reaction, a giant mixer of intentions and powers acting upon each other trying to minimize risk while increasing their powers as much as possible. It’s a grand tapestry of blood, flesh and steel, longing for softness and grace but…
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On Freedom
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…
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On Moral Temperance
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…
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On Modern Budgets
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…
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On Structural Absurdism
Musings on Philosophy The universe is both ordered and absurd. Such a universe cannot create a “should” or an “ought” on its own; it can only determine what “is.” To create an “ought” requires intent, which is only effective within one’s own mind. When acting upon itself, the will has the potential to exert control.…
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On Art and Corruption
This is a much older piece from when I lived in Nelson BC, musing on the nature of art and corporate corruption, trying to think of how artists and spiritualists could go about making true art and achieving moral insight without depending on the world of money and capitalism. I have since developed a much…
Jack's New Ethos 