Do We Lack a Zeitgeist?
“Nothing else in the world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo Politics is a struggle of ideas. Political struggles are conflicts of ideas that provide day-to-day battles with ongoing guidance and intensity. Value struggles often disguise themselves as legal disputes, geopolitical conflicts of interest, or economic and redistributional disagreements. Yet […]
Impossibly Happy–Why Pressure To Be Happy Fails Us
I’m a psychologist and I work in a café. Yes, these two things do not fit perfectly, and yes, it does get tedious to serve multiple coffees a day and answer the same questions about the WiFi password again and again. No, it’s not the job I had dreamt of, yet Denmark still reminds me […]
Regime and Era
While the political regime is a mode of operation, the political era is its spirit and general principle. Concrete political power is effective if embedded in a favorable cultural course. In short: because SPIRIT > MATERIAL, consequently CULTURE > POLITICS. Valeriu Marcu, a Romanian Jew who went from Leninism to the fringes of the Conservative […]
Unexamined Lives In a Tech World
If Socrates were to examine the present state of affairs, life, what would he ask the person sitting next to him? The texts of Plato, which describe his personality, indicate he didn’t think much of the state and its group-thinking. He challenged the assumptions and asked people he met to think for themselves, question everything […]
The Blue Screen of Death
Waking up and seeing the first light is an everyday experience. The mind has rebooted and the fragmented memory has been put in order to receive new input. A first breath combined with one’s closing of the eyes introduces the beauty of the internal memory filled with distant dreams, but dreams they are, and they are of a real […]
Isolated Community Values
So integral a part of human experience is the internet today that we not just meet and socialize on screens, but are them. Within the many layers of them, millions of communities reside with intent to unify individuals through shared sentiments on different topics. Incel communities has become one of them. They typically consist of […]