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The Dukkha of Driving
The road traffic system is designed for greed and impatience, since traffic lights work on an economy of seconds and the maximum speed limit is also the baseline—there’s even a special lane that is designed to go over the maximum. Going below maximum is something reserved for people who are stoned, drunk or green because…
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Physiology of the Generational Gap
I’ve been reflecting on what separates me from the younger generation and it centers on our respective relationship to pain. Kids have intense emotional outbursts which would derail my day if I were to experience as an adult; my nervous system doesn’t bounce back so quickly, nor do the consequences disappear so conveniently. Whereas kids…
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The Christmas that Killed God
The fateful Christmas of 1864
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The Nature of Creativity
What is creativity and where does it come from?
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The Moneyed Mind
Nothing is immune from capitalist alchemy!
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The Nietzschean Architect
A brief summary of the controversial Italian architect Giambattista Ludovisi
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The Happy Wageslave
What does happiness mean for a worker?
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Nietzsche and the Black Panthers
How did Nietzsche influence Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party?
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The Love of Humanity
The “religion of pity” to which one would like to convert us—oh, we know the hysterical little males and females well enough who today need precisely this religion as a veil and make-up. We are no humanitarians; we should never dare to permit ourselves to speak of our “love of humanity”; our kind is not…
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Heraclitus in the Danube
An essay about my great-great-grandmother Katinka, the origins of Romania, abortion, Darwin, whiteness, the Nazis, and using philosophy as a way create identity.
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Confessions of a Biological Failure
What is biological success?