Everything Else

Whether deliberation makes something unnatural, and whether it’s enough to be genuine to be natural.

Discipline and truth, force and natural inclination.

The neighbour as a metaphor against elitism and abstraction

The terms and conditions for caring.

The question of what to work on.

Markets are about voting.

Keeping faith amidst pointlessness.

Recognition isn’t devoid of value.

What the automation of work entails – for work and for people.

“For if anything becomes brilliant by additions thereto, the praise for the brilliance belongs to the additions.”

Does it matter if a plunge is chosen or not?

Irony as an easy way out.

Not all sincerity is the same.

Correcting the mistake of confusing abstraction for objectivity.

The stupidity of seeking and taking offence.

What being ethical actually means.

An unsuccessful person’s take on what it means to be successful.

Why quantity seems to always erode quality.

The sacrifice of the individual at the altar of the group.

If you reflect someone else’s light you never know why you do what you do.

The sieves you use to see the world determine the world you see.

The expansion and contraction of the things that bring pleasure.

The difference between holding strong opinions and imposing them.

The conflict between collective good and individual choice.

How friendship and acquaintanceship differ.