Commentary
Video, Culture, Parenti
On 'entertainment'[video]
In his excellent essay "The Myth of Redemptive Violence", Walter Wink draws our attention to the fact that we are taught from a very early age to accept and...
Video
On the Game of Thrones ending[video]
(Note: this post probably won't be interesting to people who haven't read (part of) ASOIAF and watched most of Game of Thrones. Before reading this, please f...
Video, Nvc
Nonviolent Communication -- an introduction[video]
One of the main reasons why I created this blog is in order to introduce people to, and explain the personal, cultural and institutional consequences of taki...
Violence, Veganism
Where the Logic Is Most Complete: Animal Use and Meritocratic Reasoning
As I've explained elsewhere, pretty much everyone is taught how to systematically devalue the equal needs of (at least some) others. By the time we reach adu...
Liberalism, Video
On education, ideological control and debt peonage in liberal societies[video]
Up until 2008, I had mostly been ignoring economics as an area of study, as the subject bored me, and I found the mindset too unpleasant. The 2008 financial...
Life under Meritocracy -- embodied edition[video]
I am a dutch white guy from a lower middle class family, among the first in my extended family to go to uni, who was strongly encouraged to embrace petit-bou...