Essay, “Permanent Speech: Politics in the age of permanence.” A new world is emerging. The intersection of technology and modernity is almost complete. A new generation of politicians is beginning to emerge. The very nature of civil society is changing. Permanent speech is about to become a reality. Everything, every moment, every utterance an...
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Permanent Speech Essay
Restructuring News Presentation
The following represents a few initial thoughts on news presentation. Oversupply creates a certain degree of crowding within the news reporting industry. A simple solution exists to the problem. Change the methodology of news presentation. Change can start with websites devoted to the aggregation of news related content. Editors should divide news related content...
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A Community of Purpose
A Community of Purpose: A collection of daily academic notes about society
Notes, a few notes written down about the problems of today. Rarely does the individual navigating society take the time to write about celebrations of success. Most observations about society tend to focus on the negative aspects of daily life. Individuals should celebrate...
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Equitist Confessions of a Futurist Mind
This highly anticipated frequently revised essay is an open letter to society, truly a written plea for rational coherent thought that is desperately necessary to move from subject objection to an Equitist solution framework using the broader fabric of logic. The minds of autonomous thinkers must feel the pressure to move forward realizing a...
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Is Nihilist Contempt a Social Ethos?
Could nihilism be part of a social ethos? This essay is not a journey into philosophical argumentation. Asking a broader general question about when reality meets philosophy is the only way to understand how nihilism has influenced classical theory. Providing an explanation for the form and function of modern society requires more than dividing...
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Faking Capitalism: Critical observations written by an American tourist in China
The last few days represent an important period in the history of international relations. A time of celebration and loss told from the unique perspective of journal style observations of a college student. During this unique period of history, an American tourist visiting the Peoples Republic of China for the first time...
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The Normative Game: Motivation and social preference theory
It works like this society wants to promote normative values. The social animal is compelled to endorse the normative project. In fact for the structures of society to bind that social animal to its norms the project must be perpetuated. Now if a rational, coherent, autonomous subject is merely a castle in the air,...
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Functional Utopia: Technology and the Future
Chapter One: Understanding the tenants of functional utopia
When considering the most basic ideas of what the future will hold it is impossible to dismiss the ideas of utopia. Questions of the future may be necessary but some certainty can be placed in the rational that at some point utopia has to be considered. To...
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