Discourse didn’t die from censorship.
It died from convenience — from reacting faster than we can think.
A new essay on capitalism, comment sections, and the death of thought.

🔗 philosophics.blog/2025/11/10/when-nobody-reads-capitalism-comment-sections-and-the-death-of-discourse

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Capitalism doesn’t kill with guns or gulags. It kills with forms, policy, and plausible deniability. The machine is efficient precisely because no one feels responsible. When an insurance executive cuts 'unprofitable' coverage, it’s not an atrocity – it’s 'cost optimisation'.

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/08/excess-deaths-attributable-to-capitalism-a-case-study-in-deflection/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social

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My proof copy was perfect. The system disagreed.

Every age has its priests; ours wear badges that read Process Engineer.
New at Philosophics.blog: The Prison of Process

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/03/the-prison-of-process/?utm_source=mastor&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lights

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The machine flagged my book for a 'possible' spine error. It wasn’t wrong; it was procedurally right.

New post: The Prison of Process — how Enlightenment Reason became 21st-century workflow.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/03/the-prison-of-process/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lights

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Finished Desmet’s The Psychology of Totalitarianism.

Great setup, disappointing aftertaste: reason torn down, intuition enthroned.
The therapist can’t stop therapising the world.

🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/29/psychology-of-totalitarianism/

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“I choose to obey, therefore I am free.”

The latest in the Anti-Enlightenment Project explores how obedience becomes virtue and submission masquerades as freedom.

🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/26/the-will-to-be-ruled/

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I've assembled a dedicated page to house the Anti-Enlightenment project essays. Check it out.

https://philosophics.blog/%f0%9f%9c%8f-the-anti-enlightenment-project/

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“Freedom becomes loyalty; truth, consensus; courage, obedience to the prevailing order.”

This is a concept in my latest essay, The Will to Be Ruled.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/24/the-will-to-be-ruled-totalitarianism-and-the-fantasy-of-freedom/

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