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Politics and Society, Spirituality

The 2023 Thai Election: Agency… for Agency

The Move Forward’s political agenda of demilitarization, de-monopolization, and decentralization (3D) is thus key to an understanding of what is different in Thai politics.

Featured Postagency, Authenticity, Mass Society, Move Forward, Pita Limjaroenrat, Thai election 2023, Thailand, Totalitarianism2 Comments
Politics and Society, Spirituality

Elections and a Pragmatic Swing

I am a political pragmatist and for good reason. There is a perfect storm of historical factors that presses a pragmatic political orientation upon us.

Featured PostAlberta, Authenticity, conservative, Intellectual Meekness, liberal, pragmatism, ThailandLeave a comment
Politics and Society, Spirituality

What A.I. Really Threatens: Yuval Harari and the Red Flag of Intimacy

It isn’t our sovereignty that AI threatens (since we never have been sovereign); it is our authenticity.

Featured PostAuthenticity, Charles Taylor, Hannah Arendt, Yuval HarariLeave a comment
Leadership and Business, Politics and Society, Spirituality

Better Capitalism and the Constitutive Value of Work

The production of capital is perhaps a necessary condition of work, but a hyper-focus on capital production will miss its sufficient conditions.

Featured PostA Corporate Agenda, Aaron E. Hedges, Authenticity, Better Capitalism, Paul E. KnowltonLeave a comment
Spirituality

The Only Guilty Man in Shawshank

The people who have most belonged and identified with Christian institutions have done everything to avoid their guilt.

Featured PostAuthenticity, guilt, innocence, Spirituality, The Shawshank RedemptionLeave a comment
Leadership and Business, Politics and Society, Spirituality

Stories, Experience, and Why David Letterman Held Our Attention

There is a sudden realization that our narrative understanding of ourselves, perhaps wrongly occupies a central place in our attention.

Featured PostAuthenticity, David Letterman, Existentialism, Experience, Johnny Carson, NarrativeLeave a comment
Politics and Society, Spirituality

New Life In Christ: An Easter Message

Respectable Christians is not content with faith in the Risen Christ, not content with the grace and love of Christ: he wants the comfort and justification of being on the side of power and convention.

Featured PostAuthenticity, Easter, Mass Society, Resurrection, Thomas MertonLeave a comment
Politics and Society, Spirituality

On the Bridge of Khaza-dum: A.I. and April Fool’s Day

A.I. is the awakening of the Balrog and our greed for control has put our fate in the balance.

Featured PostA.I., Authenticity, Lord of the Rings, Walter BenjaminLeave a comment
Leadership and Business, Spirituality

My Departed Gift

... every “good morning!” needed a response. Every action engendered an obligation...

Featured PostAuthenticity, compassion, Gifts, GraceLeave a comment
Politics and Society, Spirituality

Covenant and the Freedom to Act – Public Talk with podcast links

The irony in my giving this talk in that place, under these circumstances... reaches my heart with a deep and absurd smile. I grieve it, yes. But God's plans are always better than mine.

Featured Postanabaptist, Authenticity, Charles Taylor, covenant, Freedom, Friendship, Hannah Arendt, Mass Society, SpiritualityLeave a comment

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The Sustenance of the Private Sphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inuJk1c7An8

Authenticity and Academic Writing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oklxrBVTAI8

Arendt Beyond the Individual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bsXOHPWYu8

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  • Alberta Election 2023: the Elephants in the Room May 27, 2023
  • The 2023 Thai Election: Agency… for Agency May 22, 2023
  • Elections and a Pragmatic Swing May 14, 2023
  • What A.I. Really Threatens: Yuval Harari and the Red Flag of Intimacy May 7, 2023
  • Better Capitalism and the Constitutive Value of Work May 6, 2023

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