17 notes tagged "authority"

1. a number that is consuming life  
   Money is just a number created by humans, with no meaning outside the human mind absorbing intelligent and highly defined living beings to grow its
   October 16, 2023 money currency society authority economics
2. confused dictatorships of prosperous liberal democracies  
   over the years, we have seen huge setbacks … yet, liberal democracy has endured and come back repeatedly, because the alternatives are so bad …
   December 18, 2022 authority culture
3. weaknesses at the core of seemingly strong authoritarian states  
   key weaknesses at the core of seemingly strong authoritarian states Russia and China both have argued that liberal democracy is in long-term
   December 18, 2022 authority society power
4. we have never been liberal  
   Trump: the injection of racist, misogynistic, and xenophobic language into legitimate discourse threatens to undo strides made toward social
   December 18, 2022 authority philosophical myth
5. the end of history  
   Francis Fukuyama 1989 & 2022 the phrase “the end of history” was coined by Hegel (the first philosopher to speak the language of modern social
   December 18, 2022 authority culture hegelian
6. white supremacist capitalist patriarchy  
   a term coined by the late feminist critic and social theorist Bell Hooks that describes a system that benefits from inequality and exploitation, and
   December 18, 2022 authority feminism culture
7. the right to dominate  
   The Right to Dominate: How Old Ideas About Sovereignty Pose New Challenges for World Order, 2020, Roland Paris (Canadian political scientist) writes
   November 11, 2022 authority society
8. new middle ages  
   Umberto Eco’s essays “Living in the New Middle Ages” and “Dreaming of the Middle Ages” … decline of Westphalian sovereignty … replaced by global
   November 11, 2022 authority medieval subject
9. individual neighbours separated actual self  
   family I won’t accept these simple opposites—either individual self in control or a totalitarian , mindless mob. This kind of fantasy keeps us
   December 21, 2021 family authority community dionysian
10. community and authority over art  
    The barbarous conception of authority and the recognition of popular authority are fatal. It comes from the natural inability of a community
    August 11, 2021 authority individuality artist community
11. authoritarian regimes engineer desires  
    Authoritarian regimes can only stay in existence so long as they can control what people want. We normally think of these regimes as controlling
    August 11, 2021 authority change
12. directed desires kulturnost and consumption  
    Russian scholars Catriona Kelly and Vadim Volkov have pointed out in their essay “Directed Desires: Kul’turnost’ and Consumption” that the
    August 11, 2021 authority change
13. tyrannies over body and soul  
    There is the despot who tyrannises over the body (Prince). There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul (Pope). There is the despot who
    August 11, 2021 authority
14. tech engineers desire  
    engineering desire, is the approach of Silicon Valley, authoritarian governments … happens in labs, with cold, lifeless instruments … use
    August 11, 2021 authority technology society culture
15. the state as a voluntary association  
    There is no such thing as governing mankind, as a wise man once said, there is such a thing as leaving mankind alone. All modes of government are
    August 10, 2021 authority society
16. the etiology of the existential vacuum  
    in contrast to an animal, no drives and instincts tell man what he must do .. unlike man in former times, he is no longer told what he should do by
    October 31, 2017 conformity existential mimetic dichotomy authority

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