Abolition of Man
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The Quiet Crisis of Value In our age of algorithmic nudging and “post-truth” discourse, we are often haunted by the suspicion that our moral compass has been replaced by a mirror. We treat objective value as a phantom, preferring a “subjectivist solvent” that reduces every truth claim to a mere matter of personal preference or…
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It is a rare treat to dive into the deep end of the “sovereignty of the self” with a student before they head off to the university “jungle.” Recently, I’ve been reading through Nietzsche with a Grade 12 student who was eager to tackle the heavy hitters before her first year of university. I have…
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We live in an age of unprecedented cognitive surplus, yet we are haunted by a singular, hollow paradox: we have more information than any generation in history, but less “drive” to do anything meaningful with it. We are masters of the digital scroll, experts in the irony of the meme, and sophisticated deconstructors of every…