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Underdeveloped Truth and Image Based Digital Communication Is a Bad Combination: More Thoughts on “Post-Truth”

April 20, 2017 culture, Current Events, Ecology, integral theory, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Theory, Thoughts

“The idea is the same: Truth is not found, but made, and making truth means exercising power […] The reductive version is simpler and easier to abuse: Fact is fiction, and anything goes. It’s this version of critical social theory that the populist right has seized on and that Trump has made into a…

The Cultural Dimension of Radical Islam

March 5, 2015 Art, Current Events, Philosophy, Steve McIntosh, Theory

While there are many ways that the growing ideology of radical Islamism can be countered and resisted, my focus here is on the cultural dimension of the problem. Although Muslims have been keen to adopt the technologies of modernity, they have yet to adopt the cultural values of modernity. However, it is the liberal values…

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