dehumanization – CALL ME MAGGIE

July 5, 2025

Anti-Reason in Our Times: The Renaissance of White Supremacy

Karl Jaspers warns in “Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time” (1952) of the unphilosophical spirit that favors comforting myths over uncomfortable truths. Contemporary white supremacist movements exemplify this “anti-reason,” exhibiting ideological rigidity and rejecting dialogue. Through the Browning’s work, “The… Continue reading

September 10, 2023

The things to work out in family history

There is a great deal that every person must do to struggle against the holdovers of diverse bigotry’s in our social structures. However, we must also grapple with the familial history that each of us has, which contains sometimes egregious… Continue reading

July 4, 2023

The Devil and Thomas Jefferson

America is ruled by Mammon wearing the skin of Christian Nationalist Jesus. But that doesn’t mean all hope is lost… Continue reading

March 8, 2023

Loving as heeding the vocation of humanization

Lecture from PHIL 2306, Intro to Ethics, 07March2023: Finding the ground for ethical theory and moral action. I propose that most “vicious” / vice-ridden reactivity to our circumstances arises from dehumanization. Therefore, if there is a place where we can… Continue reading

July 16, 2017

AnarchoCynic as Queer or recognizing the gravity well of domination

We are forsaken to our existential condition. We can simply make-do with what is already underway, or we can accept responsibility for having the power to explore in a fashion otherwise than tradition teaches. Anarchocynicism only works so long as… Continue reading