Author: defaultfish

Both Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias and Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations are great examples of complementary literature that spans a time frame of 1650 years of stoic thought. To read from the translated words of Aurelius and apply them as context to which Ozymandias is written about personifies the sonnet in a way that Aurelius expressed very […]

The ongoing erosion of the human middle class which incorporates an emphatic, often romantic, entrainment of of the living and intelligent formations of nature into the foundational identity of these same folks has fostered meritocratic (plutocratic) social dynamics which don’t always align with this digital millennium. This misalignment is evidenced by a high retention of […]

What is going on, in these American cities? The wind picks up and they burn, then the news reports losses surpassing hundreds of billions of dollars and even worse is the loss in life. It’s clear that these cities are not experiencing Natural Disasters. Nations that claim to be able to destroy the world are […]

All too often, folks use descriptions that refer to human senses through elevated language to start conversations about things that have nothing to do with senses. This can be on referring to a genre as having a flavor or insinuating that one may have a taste for an author or media outlets variety. The practice […]

One thing that stands out to me about essay writing as an exercise in ones freedom of speech is that the request to write such, without a narrowing of the scope, surreptitiously clashes with learning how to effectively “fit a bit of oneself into a pre-determined mold” for a little bit of time. I’ve spent […]

Archaeological sites that have been found using modern Computer Archaeology techniques including magnetometry, computer imaging, satellite imagery, as well as stratification and other dating techniques, when cross-examined by applying modern scientific techniques such as cariology, botany and genetics, suggest that if humans and domesticated animals had lived underground for extensive amounts of time during a […]

Life on Earth is rapidly entering an era where computer intelligence on it will excel the collective capacity of human intelligence. In an interview on CBSs’ 60 Minutes, 2024 Nobel Laureate Geoffrey Hinton says, “I think we’re moving into a period when, for the first time ever, we may have things more intelligent than us.” […]

What William Cronon lacked when he wrote The Trouble With Wilderness was an interdisciplinary analysis of his astute insights that incorporated the socioeconomic, theological and psychological impacts of his concepts. His essay reflected an emotional response to history and lacked a scientific basis that instead conflated the perceived loss of unnatural wilderness with the religiously-rooted […]

Dr. Jack’s Texas Sharpshooter approach to discussing organized monotheism in his TEDxCLE talk trivializes religious systems like polytheism and animism. Dr. Jack asserts a deontological basis for people to balance their interests across science and religion. He supports this using scientific data he collected across his experiments that contained cherry-picked data that omitted history by […]

Cicero idealized a stoic viewpoint that was prone to misinterpretation and translation errors. He is less convincing than Gandhi in regards to political violence, because his stoic rhetoric indicated that he had little concern for justifying political violence beyond name-calling. He indicated political violence is applicable in some situations is in his De Officiis, Book […]