Inversion occurs when we ban some methods (killing, drinking) instead of re-orienting toward a goal. If you say that war is ...

Means-over-ends thinking begins with this desire to morally/emotionally exclude certain methods because we fear them, like ...

15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the ...

It turns out that we can see this most clearly with AI/LLM, which is shaping us as much as we are shaping it. Specifically, ...

In Southern cities, people have a culture that emphasizes fairness including ensuring that your group does not get ...

When one is an outsider, openness leads to wanting to understand the other. Once one is inside the society, all the ...

Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

“Conflict” seems to imply war and genocide. If disease killed them, it would be very odd for another group to move into their ...

The third world operates by a different system: every social institution is rotted, so you have warlords who dispense favors ...

A mono-ethnic society allows culture to predominate fully. “Culture” is always ill-defined, but basically means a set of ...

For those who enjoy a good lively discussion, I was on the Necropolis AD podcast episode DEATH TO POSEURS this morning ...

For the first time in Western history crime has become a product. We may have had dictators, Tyrants, Kings and Popes in the ...