Jack's New Ethos

Category: Ethics

  • On Amorvera

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    Jack Neoveris
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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 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 Structural Absurdism

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    Jack Neoveris
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    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.…