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superfluousman
@superfluousman Sep 2, 2020, 4:36 PM UTC

Group Identity and Collectivism

Some time has past since I wrote an article about the misuses of social terms as a way to quickly sketch out an idea about how identifying into certain groups often morphs into a political issue; how…

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@superfluousman May 28, 2018, 2:16 AM UTC

Economism: The Philosophy of Wealth Being Everything

>The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible to a class of citizens to give to another—Voltaire @Vieira's recent post on how social hierarchy works got me thinking. If you r…

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@superfluousman May 9, 2018, 2:46 PM UTC

The Four Monsters and its Cures

Eastern and Western ways of thinking, or any kind of cultural characteristics, are usually separated as two distinct modes of interpreting what one understands. This supposedly contrary division migh…

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@superfluousman May 1, 2018, 5:19 PM UTC

How to Increase Social Power

>Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.—Voltaire The State is easily the most destr…

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@superfluousman Apr 16, 2018, 5:19 PM UTC

For the Students of Human Nature

Anthropologists, archeologists, philosophers, and all others studying the nature of man quite often take the mainstream approach that humans has been evolving for the last thousands of years and the…

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superfluousman
@superfluousman Mar 22, 2018, 1:57 AM UTC

Opinion and Temperament

Whenever I browse social media, even here on Steemit, it's interesting to note how people give their opinions and arrange their thoughts in a manner in which they believe to be true. This is fine of…

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@superfluousman Mar 9, 2018, 6:20 PM UTC

Why Write?

Writing is done by nearly everyone becoming so ubiquitous that you forget it's anything substantial or unique. After speech, writing is our only means of communication that codifies our thoughts into…

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@superfluousman Feb 27, 2018, 5:13 PM UTC

An Original Contract

The use of contracts is the common way individuals, especially those engaged in business functions, come together and set forth conditions in which each side agrees on. Its primary purpose is to over…

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@superfluousman Feb 23, 2018, 5:37 PM UTC

The Unpleasantness of Certainty

A criticism you'll often hear about people who hold onto firm beliefs without looking at the possibilities is that they are being overly dogmatic, rigid to the point of restricting or even causing ad…

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@superfluousman Feb 18, 2018, 8:26 PM UTC

Starved From the Humanities

>Don't read your fellow-strivers, fellow-workers...—Goethe I've been noticing recently, a yearning for intellectual and spiritual support among those going along with the reactionary sentiment aga…

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