‘Mass Formation or Mass Atrocity?’ is a multi-authored review of ‘The Psychology of Totalitarianism’ by Mattias Desmet, which seems to acknowledge a reality and significance of the phenomenon he calls mass formation, while rejecting his characterisation of it as “the essence of the problem of totalitarianism” and supports this position…

Blood, guts, abuse and trauma will all be more or less the same till the battle is won for good at the level of ideas and then, as an eventual result, on emotional and physical levels. In the meantime, confluence of agendas will have a very similar effect to comprehensive…

Just about everyone Is a practice monster for someone else Though they’re not a real one Sometimes they seem like it Which does the trick in the other person’s head Same for groups, countries and religions The sum of all bad things in the world makes it a big monster Quick, blow it up! No wait!! The sum of all good things makes it an angel Our great human family is both at once! Maybe we can just blow up one country?

Personality implies immanence and thus logically excludes absolute transcendence. Hence there is no absolutely transcendent personal (or therefore strictly non-metaphorical) god of the classically monotheistic type. Neither personal nor absolutely transcendent deity is thereby addressed, however, except insofar as it can never be categorically both at once. …

Any simulation must cause a passably similar analog of whatever it simulates, which in our case is being in a universe governed by the law of physics. However, just to store the value of each calculated variable, even in a one bit representation, will require its own memory register. …

Physical states are either 1) fully determined by laws of physics and prior states, or 2) not. If 1 is true, physicalism is correct and consciousness is merely abstract, hence largely illusory. Call that type of sentience F, for figment. If 2 is true, something beyond physics makes a non-abstract…

Covid injections are safe and effective enough for governments to force their citizens to choose between having them and losing employment. According to most of the media, at least in subtext, that is a fact long settled by experts. However, the Supreme Court of India would beg to differ, if…

Updated April 11, 2023 Since he came to notoriety as Wikileaks’ founding editor in 2006, Julian Assange has been a controversial figure. Yet certain misconceptions about his plight should now be dispensed with, for timely assurance that nothing is untoward about relevant conduct of the UK. His legal situation is…

The UK Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal against the extradition of Julian Assange to the US. …