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What do we Know
One or two centuries ago, progressive people were hoping that, eventually, everyone would be able to receive a decent education. It certainly appeared logical to them that if everyone was provided with the intellectual tools to understand and act rationally in the world, then this could only lead to knowledge progress and to more peaceful relations between humans.
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Why we might want to do without loyalty
Are you a loyal person? Probably you see yourself as loyal, since it’s fair to assume that most people consider loyalty as a good moral value to have. It seems like a good thing to be loyal, that is to be faithful to your people and to your ideas in general. Loyalty is a commitment, it is about staying firmly faithful even in difficult times. The typical scenario in which someone’s loyalty is tested is when they face a dilemma in which they have a strong reason to ditch their earlier commitment; if they stand committed and accept to suffer consequences for it, they are loyal. If not, they might enjoy some reward for reneging on their commitment, but they also become a traitor, and everyone hates a traitor.
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St Patrick's Night
Consensual celebrations, like Christmas or the national day, tend to annoy me. Socially mandated happiness feels hypocritical and slightly nauseous. People happily forget the often ludicrous patriotic or religious origin, and instead let advertisement tell them how money should be spent on this joyous day.
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The Conservative Vision of the World
The conservative vision of the world values order above all. There is a logic to it, of course: the world is actually chaotic, with a lot of things happening by chance or for no clear reason, and this uncertainty is scary for us humans.
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Future Tools of Democracy
People sometimes forget that democracy is by construction always imperfect, it is a forever unfinished system.
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Embracing Shame?
We all know shame. It’s a totally universal feeling. For the most part, shame is a feeling that we inflict on ourselves for no good reason, it’s a self-harm addiction.
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Depressive Thought Number 1
Among other curious idiosyncrasies, fertile humans can have child-free sex thanks to various contraceptive methods. Therefore pregnancy is usually a more or less conscious choice, and usually not an accident anymore (happy or not). So why do humans want to have children?
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How Breasts Are Seen
It shouldn’t be embarrassing and this is actually my point, but ironically I don’t know how to start this text. Most of us have been preprogrammed to consider the topic of breasts as sexual, so we tend to talk either too little or way too much about it (the latter is avoidance too actually, just a different kind).
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Ignorants
We often live as if we know what living is about. We like to appear as if we wisely chose the life we have, as if we studied all the options, then carefully evaluated them before decisively saying ‘I made up my mind, I’ll take this one please.’
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Road Trip
Can you imagine a world where owning a car is frowned upon?
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