What is Liminality?
Our World in One Word
If you’re feeling lost and aimless in today’s world and [...]
Addicted to Apocalypse
Why we have a psychological need for the end of the world
“the problem of the Ufos is, as you rightly say, [...]
Lenin, Marx and America’s Rural Poor
Conservative reactionaries or the driving force of leftist revolution?
The far-left in America is famous — some say infamous — for being partial [...]
Structure vs. Communitas/Antistructure
Victor Turner on the two modes of human society
The anthropologist Victor Turner’s work turns up a theme of [...]
Vegans vs Carnivores: the Culture War’s Strangest Frontier
The bizarre fight for the essential human
In this week's instalment we're going to visit one of [...]
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Long Version)
A compass for navigating Nietzsche
Creating an overview of Friedrich Nietzsche presents unique challenges. There [...]
A Psychological Mirror — Jordan Peterson and Olivia Wilde
The culture wars as a co-dependent mirror of two groups hungry for meaning
Hello and welcome to another instalment of The Living Philosophy. [...]
Why Humanity is Special – de Chardin and the Birth of the Noosphere
And de Chardin's Evolutionary Singularity — the Omega Point
Teilhard de Chardin was a philosophical bridge builder. His [...]
Thomas Sowell – A Conflict of Visions
The Constrained and Unconstrained Visions
At the core of every moral code there is a [...]
Humanity Isn’t Cancerous; We’re Bacterial
And why what makes us special is our only hope for survival
“Growth for the sake of growth is the philosophy [...]