Author Archives: tmlavenz

Patterns of fascist demagoguery and propaganda: 1) The fascist wins support by playing on unconscious mechanisms, rather than by presenting ideas and arguments. Compared to the emotionalized, psychological stimuli applied to the crowd, the ‘content’ of the propaganda, the ‘platform’, … Continue reading →

SPIRITUO-MATERIALITY It’s difficult to countenance the divide between atheism and theism as a real one any longer, given the degree to which things have sunk into opinion on these matters, and when those preparing the next stages in thought are … Continue reading →

ENLIKENMENT (after Wallace Stevens) 1 Some call the opacity of reality ‘God’, some call it ‘matter’. If you dig down deep enough, what do you find? Top-spinning quarks or Ishvara’s playing cards? A category like ‘quarks’ is made of resemblances … Continue reading →