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Triumph of the Impersonal

James Brody, a movie review­er for The Atlantic, com­ments that Rid­ley Scot­t’s “The Mar­t­ian,” “seems to be offer­ing a sort of adver­tise­ment for tech­ni­cal achieve­ment as a mod­el of human achieve­ment, but it’s one in which the human fac­tor is left out.” Brody laments how the main char­ac­ter’s inner life while strand­ed on Mars is… Con­tin­ue read­ing Tri­umph of the Impersonal

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On Dogma

Our ten­den­cy is to believe we are oper­at­ing from a foun­da­tion in val­ues — but this foun­da­tion may not be val­ues so much as dog­ma. Dog­ma, as you know, is incon­tro­vert­ible truth, and it is noto­ri­ous­ly cor­rupt­ible on the basis of per­son­al gain. My truths are truer than your truths. My truths are bet­ter, supe­ri­or, more… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Dog­ma

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Contagion

It’s usu­al­ly around 3 AM when the dream begins. It is the mid­dle of the night, both inside and out­side the dream, and I am again being chased by Nazis. The dream has many vari­a­tions. In a few there’s a dis­tinct fig­ure of pow­er that cap­tures me and from whom I must escape, but in most… Con­tin­ue read­ing Con­ta­gion

Relationships — Reciprocity and Conflict

Let’s say there is a scale of effec­tive relat­ing — it goes from high trust and col­lab­o­ra­tion at one pole to destruc­tive hos­til­i­ty at the oth­er. In between there are some inter­me­di­ary points, so that we get some­thing like the fol­low­ing. Please click on the graph to make it larg­er. What the graph dis­plays is… Con­tin­ue read­ing Rela­tion­ships — Reci­procity and Conflict