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2020-07-27

Nostalgia reimagined

Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Anticipatory Nostalgia, fake news, Future of community, Future of Democracy, Future of Governance, Future of Identity, Honest Accounts, honest evidence, Marketing, Nostalgia, propaganda, Restorative Nostalgia, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-02-26

Perennial philosophy

Aldous Huxley argued that all religions in the world were underpinned by universal beliefs and experiences. Was he right? When I was a teenager, I came across Aldous Huxley’s The Perennial Philosophy (1945). I was so inspired by its array of mystical jewels that, like a magpie, I stole it from my school’s library. I still have […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Anticipatory Nostalgia, Faith, Future Faith, religion, Restorative Nostalgia, Skeptism, Universal Values, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-07-30

Is the Modern Mass Extinction Overrated?

We are ignoring the gains that balance the losses. If you want to measure how the state of the world is changing, and that’s a valuable thing to do, you need some kind of reference point. It’s natural we take some past point and monitor things into the future. But when you reference back to […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Biological Evolution, Cultural Evolution, Fear of the Future, Human Evolution, Restorative Nostalgia, values, Valuing Value Leave a Comment

2018-10-14

THE INTELLECTUAL WE DESERVE

Jordan Peterson’s popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape How does one even address material like this? It can’t be “refuted.” Are we ruled by a dragon of chaos? Is the dragon feminine? Does “the ‘state’ of preconscious paradise” have a “voluntary encounter with the unknown”? Is the episodic really […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Anti-Feminism, Fear of the Future, Fear of Uncertainty, Patriarchal Masculinity, Restorative Nostalgia, Traditional Values Leave a Comment

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