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Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 10 : Controversial Scientists have the Humble Audacity of Tier Lists (a maddeningly hopeful climax)

I took a class called “Scientific Issues” back when I was in college. It was a philosophy course, I guess. It was pretty engaging. There was some weird logic stuff about “ravenswans”. Debates about “direct observations” with microscopes or glasses. And some general talk about people getting bad vibes from heliocentrism. Perhaps if we hadContinue reading “Spicy Gamer Vibes and the Banality of Karen – Level 10 : Controversial Scientists have the Humble Audacity of Tier Lists (a maddeningly hopeful climax)”

I RISE ABOVE POPULAR CULTURE: How Frustration Over Virtue Explains The Internet, Tradition, Rage, Love, and the Raw Essence of Human Interaction on an Astonishing Level

If you take a look back in time, inside your philosophy textbooks, you’ll find that one of the big topics is virtue. Those people talked a lot about what virtue is, how to acquire it, whether it has value. However, one of the big controversies about virtue was that…..you could never prove if someone hadContinue reading “I RISE ABOVE POPULAR CULTURE: How Frustration Over Virtue Explains The Internet, Tradition, Rage, Love, and the Raw Essence of Human Interaction on an Astonishing Level”