Poleis Blog on States, Language & Politics

Greatest Difficulty

“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. The subordination of morals to politics, the reign of terror and the technique of propaganda and psychological aggression can be used by...

Cultivated Pissing

Sometimes I think all of history is a pissing match, but one cannot say that in polite society. No time and no space, just a pissing match. The kind that we can recognize from having observed a pack of stray dogs. Or, simply, dogs: city animals that are allowed to...

COVID19 Updates

COVID-19 Updates: * Seattle Times Daily News UPDATE * Patient Impact & Hospital Capacity Module FOR REPORTING CASES * Federal Request for COVID-19 DATA REPORTING FEMA Guidelines - Quarantine and Isolation: * Quarantine and Isolation | Quarantine | CDC * Isolation and Quarantine, Prep Toolkit FEMA * Final Rules for...

University of Schopenhauer

First a quote from a more recent scholar1: “Philosophy has long suffered, as hard sciences have not, from a wavering consensus on questions of professional competence. Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the...

Harris & Peterson

Ethical search - how can it not arrive at god? Is it possible for science not to have an endgame? For Harris it need not to; the Church of old is over, confessions (e.g.) do not have the same function. Now people rather seek god by “searching.” And so many...