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Modernity as Fragmentation (Revolutionary Aristotelianism Part 4)

If we separate out our individual selves from our larger social context we cannot reason together morally about the things that are social by nature. As modernity erodes our shared social existence it also erodes individual identity and the capacity for a shared moral framework.

Congress Must Stop Electronic Animal ID Mandate

You may have heard that the last omnibus funding bill included electronic ID, which is unfortunately true … but it still hinges on the USDA rule going into effect. So we can still stop it if Congress takes action in the Farm Bill!

The world out of kilter: occupation and zombification

This ruling gang, which is essentially nothing but an occupying force, shares neither the specific local moral codes of the various peoples it rules over, nor the general human sense of right and wrong that would once have been shared by its own ancestors.

The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News

We have become guinea pigs in a ruthlessly calculated, carefully orchestrated, chillingly cold-blooded experiment in how to control a population and advance a political agenda without much opposition from the citizenry.

Israel’s Architect of Ethnic Cleansing

Thanks to Weitz’s obsessive commitment to the mass expulsion of Palestinians he became known as the “architect of transfer” — a euphemism for ethnic cleansing (a recognised form of genocide) that would reach its apotheosis in the Nakba of 1948.

What makes a control experiment?

The importance of control experiments cuts both ways. In the same way that a control experiment can save the results of a pseudoscientific experiment from being disregarded, a well-designed control experiment can demonstrate that a particular experiment proves nothing of value whatsoever.