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Authenticity isn’t Legibility
Many performances of authenticity are protective. They arise not from vanity, but from fear. People learn to reveal enough to appear honest, but not enough to risk being known. Performed vulnerability then becomes a shelter. It looks like openness while preserving control over exposure. Continue reading
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The Human Being Is Not the Source of Meaning: Heidegger and Sartre
For Sartre, authenticity is bound up with self-creation. The authentic person accepts the burden of freedom and refuses bad faith. They do not pretend that their choices are dictated by some fixed essence or external authority. They own their freedom and act. But for Heidegger, authenticity is not primarily self-creation. It is a more truthful… Continue reading
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Interpretation: Between Facts and Freedom
The central issue is not simply what is happening. It is how what is happening is being made intelligible. Because events, on their own, do not arrive with meaning already attached to them. They must be interpreted. They must be narrated. They must be placed within some kind of framework that allows people to say… Continue reading
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Air at 49
You have always walked your own road,not the easy one,but the one that asked something of you …and you answered. Not with noise,not with spectacle,but with a steady couragethat reshapes the world quietly. You carry distance in your bones …miles from where you began,threads of home stretched across time zones …and still, you stand,rooted in… Continue reading
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Action in an Age of Systems: Anthony Giddens, Hannah Arendt, and the Problem of Technocratic Rationality
Her analysis of totalitarianism underscores how thoughtlessness and procedural obedience can replace moral responsibility. But her critique extends beyond extreme regimes. Whenever politics is reduced to technique, something essential is lost. Continue reading
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Sovereignty: The Power Beyond Ownership
” Sovereignty and ownership overlap in everyday speech, but philosophically, linguistically, and practically they point to very different kinds of authority and relation.” Continue reading
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Secularism and Pluralism: Divergent Social Imaginaries
My faith as a Christian cannot be privatized. My relationship with God is personal, but it isn’t private. Continue reading
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For Alan and Jolly
“Welcome, Foon ying, Swagaat! I especially welcome those people who have come from far away to be here today, from abroad and from places outside Edmonton. My name is Ray Klassen, and I am so honoured that Alan and Jolly have asked me to help them celebrate their wedding today. As I have come to… Continue reading
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The Problem with Mass Pop Music isn’t that it’s “Pop”: Mass Culture and Mass Society
Republicans don’t annoy me; Democrats don’t either. Conservatives don’t annoy me, neither do Liberals or New Democrats. But…. technocrats annoy me. The Problem with Mass Pop Music isn’t that it’s “Pop”: Mass Culture and Mass Society Continue reading
