The Marxian Model: Base and Superstructure
The following quote is the famous passage that seeded the famous base and superstructure model in Marxian theory. “The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic Continue Reading
Why do enlightened people say that we are one with everything?
When answering this question modern mystics rarely if ever pay any attention to the material world when making the claim that ‘we’re all one thing.’ They tend to consider the Continue Reading
A POLITICIANS GUIDE TO THE ANGER OF THE WORKING CLASSES
I want you to imagine briefly, for a few moments if you will, how it feels to do the most menial work that you can imagine, whether that’s washing dishes Continue Reading
POLITICIANS, THE WORKING CLASSES AND THE WILL TO POWER
The working class are not ‘Woke,’ which is supposed to be ‘alert to injustice,’ on account of the fact that they don’t need to be, having experienced much more discrimination Continue Reading
What is the self really?
In everyday non-philosophical parlance, when we speak about a self we are generally referring to an individual. When we are speaking about selves, we are talking about individuals that are Continue Reading
As the years go by so do people…
As the years go by; so do people… How many people have you come to have known since you came into this world after your birth? And how many of Continue Reading
Socrates, Nietzsche, The Will to Power and technological gods.
Pretty soon in the UK we’ll see the arrival of motorcars that know the speed limit and will warn you not to exceed it, eventually these will be replaced by Continue Reading
Epictetus and his crutches
I’ve been waiting for roughly ten weeks to write this piece, the result of a recent accident in which I broke my wrist, causing a permanent disability. It wasn’t the Continue Reading
The Lotus-eaters and the static utopia
Within the entertaining world that is Greek Mythology, there is of course the great classic of Homer’s Odyssey. The story focuses on the titular protagonist, Odysseus, Greek hero of the Continue Reading
To the human race, this universe is not yours…
The idea that the world belongs to the human race is not a new one; in the Holy Bible, book of Genesis, it explicitly states: Then God said, “Let Continue Reading
Out Now! – Happy Nihilism!
‘Negate to liberate’ is the motto of the happy nihilist! Most people seeking the meaning of life never stop to consider that perhaps there never was one to begin with. Continue Reading
The Flow of Experience…
Experience… Just stay in the present moment and you’ll realise by direct awareness that experience is not episodic. To those practitioners paying mindful attention to the present, they will soon Continue Reading
The Origin of Love…
We’ve all had those moments when without warning we meet the gaze of a random stranger and time seems to stop. Without so much as a word they empty their Continue Reading
The psychological reason why you shouldn’t force your religious beliefs on anyone.
When I was a kid growing up in the 1970’s and 80’s there was a popular saying doing the rounds that went along the lines of ‘never discuss religion and Continue Reading
What is Nihilism?
We’ve all head the term nihilism, sometimes liberally thrown about as a synonym for pessimism or defeatism. But in philosophical circles worthy of the name, it’s an actual philosophical system Continue Reading
What is philosophy for?
Let’s begin by saying something bold, philosophy is first and foremost about using the rational faculty that all human beings possess to determine personal happiness. In order to find happiness, Continue Reading
Monty Python and the Holy Grail of postmodernism
The 1975 film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a classic postmodern film. Making use of its characteristic Pythonesque comedy to subvert traditional storytelling, religion, time and Arthurian myth. Continue Reading
Do I give assent to this?
Among the tools of the stoics is Epictetus’ Discipline of Assent. Now the Greek work for consent or approval is sunkatathesis, but in the stoic context it means agreeing with Continue Reading