In the US, the old Puritan ideals of commitment to faith and “divine favour” through hard work (e.g., the Protestant work ethic) have morphed into modern prosperity gospel teachings, which hold that money is a sign of God’s blessing and so on. This majorly clashes with Jesus’s
AI is a tool; it’s a great one, like fire, printing press, and so on. But why do we use it only to create capital? Could there be other, not-so-bullshit ways to enjoy life? In 2025, AI was cited as a contributing factor in nearly 55,000 U.S.
It’s not a far reach to say that PC (politcal correctness) enforces a subtle totalitarianism through its logic of “I know better what you really want.” It demands internal sincerity, not just external politeness, alongside the social coercion that feels non-authoritarian but is more insidious. As Žižek (1997) argues
I’ve heard now too many times how psychoanalysis is unscientific and I wanted to express my thoughts on the issue. Especially why falsifiability is not a good indicator whether or not a thing is scientific or not. That fucking word (falsifiability) keeps getting thrown around like it's