Jack's New Ethos

Tag: Freedom

  • 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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    Jack Neoveris
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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 Art and Corruption

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    Jack Neoveris
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    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…