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I think one must engage in politics — using the word in a wide sense — and that one must have preferences: that is, one must recognise that some causes are objectively better than others, even if they are advanced by equally bad means. As for the nationalistic loves and hatreds that I have spoken of, they are part of the make-up of most of us, whether we like it or not. Whether it is possible to get rid of them I do not know, but I do believe that it is possible to struggle against them, and that this is essentially a moral effort. It is a question first of all of discovering what one really is, what one’s own feelings really are, and then of making allowance for the inevitable bias.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

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Orwell, George - Essay (1945-05), "Notes on Nationalism," Polemic Magazine (1945-10) | WIST Quotations

I think one must engage in politics -- using the word in a wide sense -- and that one must have preferences: that is, one must recognise that some causes are objectively better than others, even if they are advanced by equally bad means. As for the nationalistic loves and…

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦May 4

“ #Intersubjectivity is not the meeting of already constituted subjects, but the ground from which #subjectivity emerges.”

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Photography Lessons From ‘The Lord of the Rings’ https://petapixel.com/2026/05/03/photography-lessons-from-the-lord-of-the-rings/ #lordoftherings #subjectivity #Educational #narrative #Opinion #tolkien #story

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Philosophics Apr 25

I’d like to share a NotebookLM summary of an early draft of Chapter 1, which serves as an introductory chapter: Authoring Displacement and the Cake Grammar or some such. Have a listen.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/25/the-architecture-of-willing-an-early-peek/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

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Philo Sophies Apr 23

⛓️Trapped in your own #consciousness🧠? – Why #solipsism becomes the most radical #limitsofknowledge

In the #Zoomposium with #GerhardRoth, it becomes clear: The real challenge isn’t just what consciousness is—but how far we can actually perceive with it.

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/

📺https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik

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Viktor Stogov Apr 22

@nastasime If we extend the author’s logic, it follows that Ukrainians cannot write about Russia, nor Armenians about Azerbaijan, nor U.S. citizens about the UK. We are all guided by personal experience, which can make opinions seem distorted. Moreover, even citizens speaking about their own countries often express subjective views that their compatriots might find fundamentally incorrect. #opinions #subjectivity

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