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Preference falsification and cascade

Jeffrey A. Tucker -

Tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen posted the following: “We are living through the most dramatic preference cascade of my life. Every day I am hearing...

Schopenhauer: Humanity’s fall to irrationality

Bert Olivier -

In the third section of The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (1872) Friedrich Nietzsche quotes the ancient tragedian, Sophocles, where...

The Boy Who Trapped Death in a Nut

Hayley Kynefin -

There is a Scottish folk tale that provides an apt metaphor for the ethical-philosophical problem of the Covid era. It is called “Death in a...

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