why we should

The last book report on was some analytical philosophy, the book A Moral Theory of Liveliness: A Secular Interpretation of African Life Force by Kirk Lougheed. So time to try to read some more continental philosophy, what better than Slavoj Zižek and his 2022 work on our topsy-turvy world Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed. This one I found in…

Input In recent years I have acknowledged my discomfort attending performances is mostly due to my inability to be at all comfortable in an audience. I am audience-phobic. It would be much easier to be on the stage. Note this is not a preference to be on stage, I have little desire to be on stage. Or perform for others. I would…

pre-put Back in September (2025) I read the following piece on the new work in philosophy channel. "A Moral Theory of Liveliness: A Secular Interpretation of African Life Force" by Kirk Lougheed. Fellow in Clinical, Organizational, and Research Ethics at the Center for Clinical Ethics which is housed at Unity Health Toronto, Academic Fellow in the the Department of Family…

When we see the day in our world and the world in our day, we have no need to should. One might say we should… —should, but this is too much. Chill. Relax. Smile. In giving this moment to the day we are open to the world. The biggest part of the world is the day. ① the day in…

Put up Today is a quick take or a reaction piece, a bit like I do at evolution~morality pieces papers. I am going to look at some dogmatic selfing. It follows from seeing an unknown term 'Argumentative ethics' I saw in someone’s comment someplace as an aside to something completely unconnected, what is this 'Argumentative ethics' I thought? Perhaps this…

There is a constant effort between all efforts, to call it war is to miss the point. War is a failure of effort, when our efforts forget themselves in the name of loyalty or some other type of dogma. To engage in a culture war is the laziest effort, a value of no value. All values are an effort, it…