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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 105 We all know Communism is perhaps the world’s deadliest ideology, but what makes it that way? As it turns out, there’s a simple reason Communism leads to mass murder, starvation, and death, and it’s this: Communists believe Communism can never be wrong. What this amounts to in practice is that when Communist programs start to fail, it cannot be that they were bad ideas in the first place. It can only be that someone failed to do them right, and, as it always happens, that hidden enemies are causing the problems. The result of this self-aggrandizing and paranoid belief is always …

OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 137 Book Club Series, Episode 5 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members Welcome back to another episode of my James Lindsay OnlySubs Book Club! I’m still reading Frank Dikotter’s “People’s Trilogy,” specifically in this case The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957. In this vignette I want to share with you from the book, near the end, Dikotter explains the appeal of Communism, at least to the Chinese in the 1950s, even though all around them was failure, starvation, …

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In this episode, I take a look at the “ultimate questions” of religion and philosophy: Who are we? Where are we going? How does one live a meaningful life in a world that is marked by loss and death, but also goodness and beauty?  Throughout history, humanity has come up with many different and often conflicting answers to these questions. Early humans perceived a spirit world where the ancestors were present and available. Traditional cultures posited a transcendent reality – Godhead or Nirvana – with death as an opportunity for liberation from evil and suffering. Modernity deconstructed religion and spirit …

In this episode, I take a look at the “ultimate questions” of religion and philosophy: Who are we? Where are we going? How does one live a meaningful life in a world that is marked by loss and death, but also goodness and beauty?  Throughout history, humanity has come up with many different and often conflicting answers to these questions. Early humans perceived a spirit world where the ancestors were present and available. Traditional cultures posited a transcendent reality – Godhead or Nirvana – with death as an opportunity for liberation from evil and suffering. Modernity deconstructed religion and spirit …

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We all become compost — but who among us feeds regeneration for the Earth?We are all at risk with the Coronavirus. It cannot be contained at this point in time — though there is still much that can be done to slow its spread with social distancing and quarantines to avoid overwhelming our health care systems. The fact of the matter is (a) all of us are pretty likely to catch it; and (b) some of us will not survive.My question in this essay is “What if there was a mechanism for regenerating the Earth that could make these deaths …

photo by Gary WilsonIN ONE OF LONG NOW’S MOST MOVING TALKS, Ostaseski began: “I’m not romantic about dying. This is the hardest work you will ever do. It is tough. It’s sad and it’s messy and it’s cruel and it’s beautiful sometimes and mysterious, but above all that, it’s normal. It’s a boat we’re all in. It’s inevitable and intimate.“ He said that people think it will be unbearable, but they find they have the resources to deal with it, and “they regularly — not always — develop insights into their lives in the time of dying that make them emerge as a much larger, …