Everything Studies

“Public debate is how societies do their thinking.

I really mean it this time.

Another year comes to an end.

Happy new 2024 everyone 🙂 It feels weird to write a summary of 2023 since my archive contains exactly 0 posts from 2023.

I sum up the year and give an overview of the contents of the book I'm writing.

Building on two articles by Holden Karnoffsky, I argue that utopian fiction fails because it's trying to depict something impossible.

Four classes of forces shape our selves, which do we think of as the most important?

Saying that "language evolves" is no enough to dismiss complaints about the misuse of words, since "language erodes" is just as valid, but without the suggestion of progress.

People experience the nature of their wants, needs and desires very differently, and when they generalize the specifics of their own psychology onto everyone else it has a profound effect on their political beliefs.

In which I announce that I'm going to write a book.