17 notes tagged "authority"
a number that is consuming life
Oct 2023
Money is just a number created by humans, with no meaning outside the human mind absorbing intelligent and highly defined living beings to grow its
#money
#currency
#society
#authority
#economics
confused dictatorships of prosperous liberal democracies
Dec 2022
over the years, we have seen huge setbacks … yet, liberal democracy has endured and come back repeatedly, because the alternatives are so bad …
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#culture
weaknesses at the core of seemingly strong authoritarian states
Dec 2022
key weaknesses at the core of seemingly strong authoritarian states Russia and China both have argued that liberal democracy is in long-term
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#society
#power
we have never been liberal
Dec 2022
Trump: the injection of racist, misogynistic, and xenophobic language into legitimate discourse threatens to undo strides made toward social
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#philosophical
#myth
the end of history
Dec 2022
Francis Fukuyama 1989 & 2022 the phrase “the end of history” was coined by Hegel (the first philosopher to speak the language of modern social
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#culture
#hegelian
white supremacist capitalist patriarchy
Dec 2022
a term coined by the late feminist critic and social theorist Bell Hooks that describes a system that benefits from inequality and exploitation, and
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#feminism
#culture
the right to dominate
Nov 2022
The Right to Dominate: How Old Ideas About Sovereignty Pose New Challenges for World Order, 2020, Roland Paris (Canadian political scientist) writes
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#society
new middle ages
Nov 2022
Umberto Eco’s essays “Living in the New Middle Ages” and “Dreaming of the Middle Ages” … decline of Westphalian sovereignty … replaced by global
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#medieval
#subject
individual neighbours separated actual self
Dec 2021
family I won’t accept these simple opposites—either individual self in control or a totalitarian , mindless mob. This kind of fantasy keeps us
#family
#authority
#dionysian
community and authority over art
Aug 2021
The barbarous conception of authority and the recognition of popular authority are fatal. It comes from the natural inability of a community
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#individuality
#artist
authoritarian regimes engineer desires
Aug 2021
Authoritarian regimes can only stay in existence so long as they can control what people want. We normally think of these regimes as controlling
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#change
directed desires kulturnost and consumption
Aug 2021
Russian scholars Catriona Kelly and Vadim Volkov have pointed out in their essay “Directed Desires: Kul’turnost’ and Consumption” that the
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#change
tyrannies over body and soul
Aug 2021
There is the despot who tyrannises over the body (Prince). There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul (Pope). There is the despot who
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tech engineers desire
Aug 2021
engineering desire, is the approach of Silicon Valley, authoritarian governments … happens in labs, with cold, lifeless instruments … use
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#technology
#society
#culture
the state as a voluntary association
Aug 2021
There is no such thing as governing mankind, as a wise man once said, there is such a thing as leaving mankind alone. All modes of government are
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#society
the etiology of the existential vacuum
Oct 2017
in contrast to an animal, no drives and instincts tell man what he must do .. unlike man in former times, he is no longer told what he should do by
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#existential
#mimetic
#dichotomy
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