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Wrestling for Truth with ChatGPT
September 2024Every technological development, at least up until now, has created a new tool that can be pressed into the service (or disservice) of man.
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Junkspace: The Empty Slogans of Our Politicized Linguistic Regime
May 2024To live in the truth, we must want the truth. That means doing what we can to get at the reality hidden behind the empty slogans of partisan ideology.
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Householding in Action
October 2023The working household constitutes a specific physical locus intimate enough to be personal but capacious enough to be a haven from the vicissitudes of market forces.
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Terms of Service: A Discussion of Social-Media Subterfuge & Death-Dealing Democracy
May 2023Our morally bankrupt political leaders lie for a living and call it the “fact-checked” truth.
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‘Tis Pity We’re All Whores
July-August 2022If we want our dignity — and our freedom of speech — back, then we have only to stop giving it away to the Internet.
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Looking Beyond Our Fragile Shelter
June 2022Bringing down the price tag for colonizing Mars has made it a seeming solution to several social and even metaphysical concerns.
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Reverie Under the Shroud
December 2021We can resist what Pope Francis has called the “technocratic paradigm,” a technology-inspired ideology of acquisition, consumption, and control.
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What “Old Books” Have to Teach Us About Being Human in the 21st Century
September 2021Although we have more books available to us than at any time in history, fewer and fewer of us read great literature, distracted as we are by screens.
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A Perfect Media Maelstrom
July-August 2021The Joplin tornado of May 2011 showed the populace had come to rely on media in place of their own eyeballs for weather reports.
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All the World Is Staged
May 2021Most of us probably spend more time each day looking at screens than at anything, or anyone, else. Our thinking is curdled out of online scenarios.
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