Authenticity
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Human Time Can Mean Anything
“Effective altruists, … say the threat of artificial intelligence is that it may someday become conscious…. The Right to Be Lazy suggests that machines have already been used to that end for nearly 250 years.” Yet a machine cannot enjoy its time off. Continue reading
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Work: The Technocratic Perversion of Human Life
Technocratic capitalism can either overrun humanity or it needs to be forced back into its lane. Continue reading
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Alberta Election 2023: the Elephants in the Room
The UCP will keep ignoring the elephants in the room. The smoke is out of sight because it rained, but we better understand that it is going to come back worse. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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The Only Guilty Man in Shawshank
The people who have most belonged and identified with Christian institutions have done everything to avoid their guilt. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
About me: I am a career educator and traveler at heart. My written work includes academic writing in philosophy and linguistics, English acquisition, and most intently in the areas of spiritual engagement with reality and what that means for our public lives.
My education is a mixture of formal study in philosophy, political theory, Biblical studies, and history, along with professional teaching certification in TESOL and in cognitive testing, and international teaching.
My travel experiences include a range of countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. I have lived in Canada, the United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Thailand. From those places I have traveled to many others besides.
I am a child of the 70’s and a “family man.” That means I have two wonderful kids who have been round the world with me.
Lastly, I am married to a wonderful woman since 2004. She is my partner, my friend, and my muse.
Thanks again for stopping by,
Raymond Klassen - Ideals and Identities 