why we should

part one -- Do it for the house. part two -- get rid of the sweorlfds part three -- art part four -- paranoia and cult In part 1 or ‘Do it for the house' I discussed a narcissist who did really well out of a working bee or two, which he advertised as “doing it for the house". This…

In part one I described a sweorlfd or narcissist and his world-parasitising methods of extracting labour from his new-agey targets or marks, by saying to the fools, I mean volunteers, “Do it for the house.” I restrained myself from quoting directly from Marx or a Marxist canon or any Marxian contributions on the labour theory of value, wanting to example…

We'll take the owner of a new age business as our model. He ran a crystal, candle and incense shop for a decade, but had a hankering to run his own… —special personality cult. He tried grandstanding over a men's group for about the same time, but decided he needed more him than them. So, he sells the shop and…

A reaction to a paper that came my way. I am working my way through a to-do list of them. Well let’s start with those two first sentences… I know this is an abstract but… So, not sure if you can leap from co-ordination, nor even from unnegotiated co-operation, to “a moral structure inevitably develops.” Chicken/egg? I’ll keep reading with…

A reaction to a paper that came my way. I am working my way through a to-do list of them. So this is from 1993. I was in my late twenties. Never read any of this stuff back then. This is before primatologists and paleo-anthropologists came up with the idea of the Egalitarian Revolution of the Paleolithic among Homo species.

Michael Vlerick's “Better Than Our Nature? Evolution and Moral Realism, Justification and Progress.” in Ruse, Michael, and Robert J. Richards, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 9781107132955. Cambridge Handbooks in Philosophy. [via academia.edu] Puts forward an “innate ‘moral compass’ ” or “ ‘moral sense’ ”as a way to allow an evolutionist to…