why we should

About twenty years ago Jamie Kirkpatrick wrote a book The ecologies of paradise: explaining the garden next door. (PDF) In the Australian blogosphere at the time (how to find those comments? on blogspot? (oh look searchblogspot.com but no) there was some dismissive commentary in regard to Jamie’s comments about 'leafy suburbs' (these being the posher suburbs in Australia), and specifically,…

My basic position which has arisen in these recent years of blogging If we can find a term or phrase that describes what we do without a focus on ‘its’ outcomes of : (religion/polity/art/morality-plex and its instantiations tribe/club/religion/) or even just practices (ritual/performance/sport/mindfulness) then we will be able to talk about 'it' sensibly and reasonably, or at least provide a pathway for us…

A list of reaction to other evolution~morality papers and chapters and stuff can be found at Reactions to papers on evolution~morality. Derya Sakin Hanoğlu. “On the Evolutionary Origin of Morality.” Beytülhikme An International Journal of Philosophy (2022): via academia.edu. Web. Abstract: In this study, I will approach morality from a naturalistic perspective and defend that morality is a product of…

I’ve been thinking more about Kurt Gödel and his incompleteness theorems, ① that attack on formalism with reference to his intuitive Platonism, and ② the observer around which many human efforts are now circling, or circulating. Recommended reading: Alexander T Englert. “Kurt Gödel, His Mother and the Argument for Life after Death.” Aeon. 2 January 2024. https://aeon.co/essays/kurt-godel-his-mother-and-the-argument-for-life-after-death If, as it…

Following a comment i made, that ‘meetings made us human’, in response to the following fable: I neologised this Greek monster: Κοσμοσωτηρία Transliterated this is kosmosōtēría which is ‘world-saving’. This is an attempt to meet the soteriological focus of the individual (with an eye on ataraxia) with saving the world, where ‘worlding’ is still a type of ‘selfing, and not…

Originally posted on substack in June 2023. one word prompt “Kludge” to nitro diffusion My use of “worldbuilding” is an attempt to language a notice that when/what various places and periods label: morality/spirit/culture/love/gods/Jesus/One/etc, or enlightenment (really) or whatever, is the unquestion of intention, regarding the question of intention or design and morality. ¿what is the ethical response to morality? I…