Philosophical Speculations

Communism can only be realized in a highly developed economy with abundance of goods where there would be no competition for resources. This is exactly what Marx taught actually, but his mistake was the assumption that a socialist society can still be built before such abundance happens as a "...

Four more interesting links: https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/14/ukrainian-leftist-war-russia-us/ https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/09/former-nato-military-analyst-blows-the-whistle-on-wests-ukraine-invasion-narrative/ https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/09/ukraine-the-broader-geopolitical-conflict/ h...

Addressing this mostly to fellow idealists, because we've heard the potential answers a million times from materialist scientists. Do you think that if idealism is right this also has consequences regarding this question? To clarify, I mean only life in this universe, not other "spiritual dime...

Whatever we experience is real, but we have to set up certain degrees of "how real". We can, I assume, agree that while a dream is a real experience, from the waking state you can realise that while the experience was real, the actual events that took place in the dream are at a lesser le...

Well said. Perhaps that's a good description of Consciousness itself? I would’t think so, Ben. Consciousness IS evolution. We are going to a final participation in the Barfield sense. Then, we are not a loop but an infinite spiral, always finding better ways to connect, toward unification. Or so I’...

I agree. Something that I've been thinking of lately is that while the consciousness states one can experience while on psychedelics can be felt "more real than waking life", to which I can attest, there is simply no way to know whether this is because they are actually more real, or beca...

In one talk - or maybe essay, I can't quite remember - bernardo stated that MAL's primary directive is to deceive itself. Apart from that the choice of words leaves a bad taste in my mouth - it'd sound way better as "MAL's primary directive is to be fully engaged in its imagination" -, th...

A lot of very dubious claims in this interview. Just two of them: Minute 44’ 43”: Intrinsically evil arquetipes in nature. Look at the Serengueti= a blood bath. Seriouslly? Evil dimension in nature? I would think that moral realm appears with human beings. Minute 48’ 24”: Our entire justice system ...

A lot of very dubious claims in this interview. Just two of them: Minute 44’ 43”: Intrinsically evil arquetipes in nature. Look at the Serengueti= a blood bath. Seriouslly? Evil dimension in nature? I would think that moral realm appears with human beings. Minute 48’ 24”: Our entire justice system i...

So I gave Steiner's example. The man claimed that establishing the State of Israel was a hallucination and history proved that he himself was hallucinating. He made a false presentation, apparently believing in it sincerely, that he "sees." But in fact his thinking was stuck in the subjec...