Recent posts tagged Karl Popper
2023
The Rebel (Albert Camus)
How can we live as a species, knowing now the temptation to righteous power will always exist even in (and maybe especially in) the best of us? And how do we let all that not get in the way of us getting very real boots off our very real necks?
2022
The Escapist Imperative
In dire times, some people (me included) feel uneasy about seeking escape from the moment they're in.
2021
The Great Maybe
Skepticism of one's own positions is difficult to cultivate, in big part because the rest of the world openly defies us to doubt ourselves constructively.
2020
Exact Thinking In Demented Times, And Other Delights
On Sir Popper's beautiful mind as an antidote for this terrible moment.
Future Schlock, Pt. 2
More on how SF's main purpose isn't to predict the coming of specific things, but to understand how we might respond to them, whatever they are.
Everyone Knows Utopia Is Nowhere
On those who believe in incremental solutions -- progressive and conservative alike -- and those who believe in burning the whole house down and starting over.
2018
The Price Of Everything And The Value Of Nothing
The difference between a skeptic and a cynic is motives.
The Uncertainty Principle
What did Bertrand Russell mean when he said, "Do not feel absolutely certain of anything"?
2015
The Smartest Guys In The Medium Dept.
"...the doctrine that the genius must be in advance of his time is almost wholly false and vicious..."
