Jack's New Ethos

Tag: culture

  • 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 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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    Jack Neoveris
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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 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…