Since the COVID pandemic and the uprising of social justice causes, especially after the events of George Floyd in 2020, I have been reflecting on this strange shift in society and trying to understand this change on a deeper level. From COVID and all of the messages from companies to ‘do the right thing’ with … Continue reading The Web That Binds Us: Origins, Explanation, and the Psychology of Doomed ESG Investing.

Over the past year or so, I have been wanting to make an essay on my views of economics and touch on some of the problems I see within economic systems today. This started when I wrote about Jeff Bezos and how he could learn a thing or two about classical capitalism, and the ideas … Continue reading A Treatise on Economics: For the 21st Century

In this work by logician and philosopher C. I. Lewis, the process of analytic learning is introduced through a pragmatic and rational idea of knowing. This took place at the 1926 Howison Lecture at the University of California and opens us up to an idea of learning – away from abstraction and into logic. At … Continue reading C.I. Lewis’ Analytic Epistemology in The Pragmatic Element in Knowledge (1926)

In my academic thesis: Reviewing the Interdisciplinarity of Professors at Colleges and Universities Globally Through a Meta-Analysis of Current Literature, I observed the concept of natural sustainability and what sustainability actually means in the world of education. I connected epistemology and the role of sustainability in education by reverse-engineering the phrase outside of its left-wing … Continue reading Taking Back Sustainability: A Common Buzzword Among the Affluent, But They Really Don’t Understand It.

After my American election predictions from last year had the correct score, wrong candidate, I decided to redeem myself through predicting the Canadian election for 2021 -- hopefully with less failure. What an election to pick, considering I usually rely on polls for projections, and polls this year may be obsolete. The surge in PPC … Continue reading 2021 Canadian Election Predictions

United Nations ID2020 Summit - New York City, 2018 The recent discussion around vaccine passports being introduced – predominantly through technological means – seems to have taken hold of the entire world in this stage of COVID-19 pandemic. My recollection – from what I observe in media – is that this is widely rejected by … Continue reading Let Us Have a Talk About Digital ID’s

Laurentian University in Canada: https://laurentian.ca/newstags/school-architecture This day started out gloomy as I just finished watching a video where ethics professor Dr. Julie Ponesse from The University of Western Ontario was dismissed from her position as she – within her rights as a Canadian – does not accept forced medical treatments as a mandate for her … Continue reading University Creation Simulator: Can This Pipe-Dream Become a Reality?

The “noble but flawed” goal of cosmopolitanism is to embrace a fundamental “respect for humanity” says philosopher Martha Nussbaum in her work: The Cosmopolitan Tradition. She reflects on the historical philosophy of cosmopolitanism -- and its deep roots -- extending as far back as Immanuel Kant’s philosophy on universal perpetual peace, to Diogenes conceptualizing the … Continue reading Afghanistan, COVID-19, and the Error of Neo-Cosmopolitanism

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, by George Frederic Watts (died 1904), given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1895. "Incompetence in leadership is no place for the old and weary." This is a theme I see in Lord Alfred Tennyson's poems Ulysses and Charge of The Light Brigade. Although poems take place in different … Continue reading Lessons of 2021 Through Lord Alfred Tennyson’s Poems: Ulysses (1842) and Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)

A recent post from the Twitter handle NYC Angry Mom - please follow her @angrybklynmom - posted quite a salient thread that everyone needs to read. It has been something I have been waiting to see; a compendium of all the social media backlash from concerned COVID doomsdayers who cannot comprehend good news and are … Continue reading When they present COVID Concerns, Give Them Effective Answers