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Tomorrow, I will be starting a new conversation-group which is an offshoot of the Extinctionati. The Organon is a group discussion happening on Saturday mornings at 11:30 AM (PST), over the Jitsi app (you can download this or run it via a browser interface). We will...

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This is a weird moment for me, but if most of society operated like Amazon customer service, I’m pretty sure it would be like living in paradise… I’ve never experienced anything other than them simply taking care of every problem. Which, when I stop...

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While the practice of monotheism can produce astonishing individuals and insight/wisdom … a much darker and lethal aspect is its propensity to act as a focal fetish for the rage and violence of aspects of what might be called the Id or SuperEgo. If one imagines...

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Posting your outrage on facebook is like sending your bank details to your enemy with a note on it that says ‘I don’t like you’.

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Any generalization about ‘people’, which incoherently extends a single derivable ‘feature’ to characterize all people, is a misuse of the valid purposes under which generalizations may provide insight. Such ignorance should be stopped at the...