Tag: progress
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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 Subterfuge
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…
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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…
Jack's New Ethos 