Hannah Arendt
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Work, Democracy and Inequality: A Message for the Center-Left, Part 1
“Progressive parties and movements used to be the parties of working people…. but in recent decades, that’s changed in a way that also parallels education.” Continue reading
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The Corporate Leviathan: How Corporations Became the True Artificial Intelligence of Our Time
In response to AI: Are you on a journey to reclaim authenticity and defy corporate dominance in a world teetering on the brink of mass conformity? Continue reading
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Inadequate Political and Moral Categories in Palestine and Israel – Part 1
We need to bring the entire Palestinian population back into the state of legality – not into a family of nations nor with pointless and virtue-signalling categories of human rights, but with a reconsideration again of what it means to be human. Continue reading
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Inadequate Political and Moral Categories in Palestine and Israel – Part 2
For it is quite conceivable, and even within the realm of practical political possibilities, that one fine day, a highly organized and mechanized humanity will conclude quite democratically – namely, by majority decision – that for humanity as a whole, it would be better to liquidate certain parts thereof. Continue reading
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Organized Lying About Palestine
If we are paying attention, we should have noticed the practice of organized lying. Continue reading
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The Avatar, Authenticity and Why Palestinians are Returning to Northern Gaza
Authenticity, as the Palestinians are manifesting, invests in home, in land, and in community instead of ideological notions of a “Zionist” state, Continue reading
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Al Aqsa Flood, Day 3 continued: Israel is Telling us that it’s a Genocide!
We should understand that they have placed the entirety of Gaza (not just Hamas) under siege: no food, no water, no electricity, no safe shelter. It is now a concentration camp. Continue reading
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Al Aqsa Flood, Day 3: the Siege and the Danger of Innocence
Claiming innocence to justify any action will make us morally culpable because it is an abdication of our responsibility to think. Innocence is our greatest danger. Continue reading
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Authenticity, Scapegoating, and Peace
To practically everybody, peace simply means the absence of any physical violence that might cast a shadow over lives devoted to the satisfaction of their mimetic desires for comfort and pleasure. 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
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,
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