Fred Guerin
Obama’s ‘More Perfect Union’ and Trump’s Dystopian Nightmare: on Political Consciousness, Rhetoric a
Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller’. — George Orwell, 1984 Listening to Trump’s...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 201910 min read
The Magical Invisibility Cloak Utilitarianism Wears in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism
In a philosophy seminar many years ago I called utilitarian ethics ‘the moral view from nowhere’. Like so many smart-ass undergrads I was...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20196 min read
Beyond the Bern: How Progressive Movements Leap Ahead of Electoral Politics
Following Hillary Clinton’s primary victories this Tuesday in Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and Missouri, some new questions...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20198 min read
The Canadian Ministry of “Truth”: 'Reality Is Whatever We Say It Is'
One of the frightening aspects of ideology is how easy its governing principles can be obscured behind tautologies and reality-denying...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 201917 min read
On Roboethics and the Robotic Human
In the preface to a piece in the Tyee “Roboethics’ Not Science Fiction Anymore,”Emi Sasagawa asks three interesting questions: Can a...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20198 min read
The Charitable Society or 'How to Avoid the Poor and Perpetuate the Wealth Gap'
One of the most potent, propagandistic memes advanced by the corporate well-to-do in the United States today has been the projection of...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 201918 min read
The Compelling Conclusion About Capitalism That Piketty Resists
The idea of capitalism as an expression of economic freedom that also secures moral and political freedom of thought, or the notion that...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20195 min read
On Edward Snowden: Whistleblowing as the Highest Form of Civic and Political Engagement
What would it be like to live in a world where dissent was no longer permissible? We appropriately associate the right to dissent with...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 201914 min read
Retrieving a Moral Comportment in an Age of Violence and Bullying
In a recent “Report to the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Ministers Responsible for Justice and Public Safety,” the Canadian government,...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20199 min read
The Human Being as Unwitting Research Object for Industrial Chemistry
In the popular science-fiction film The Matrix has its origin in a provocative philosophical thought-experiment called the “brain in a...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 201918 min read
Bureaucracy, Autocracy and Neoliberal Canada
We must not only intervene, resist and oppose neoliberal governments and corporate capitalist hegemony; we must finally put an end to...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 24, 20198 min read
B.C. can help point the way to a democratic eco-socialist future
It is clear, looking at the present election results, that the majority of British Columbia residents wanted a radical change from the...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 23, 20197 min read
On Equity, Empathy and the 'Moral' Robot
There is a great deal to be said for living one’s life according to certain generalized or universal moral principles. Thus, the demand...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 21, 20193 min read
Not 'Wars' but Crimes Against Peace
Okay, let's stop talking about America 'going to war' with Iran. We are not referring here to two belligerents, but only one. We are not...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 20, 20191 min read
Album A Day #38 David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRcPA7Fzebw
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Fred Guerin
Jun 20, 20191 min read
THE COLONIZATION OF RECONCILIATION
“Reconciliation is about establishing and maintaining a mutually respectful relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 20, 20193 min read
On Parasitic Capitalism
Capitalism, we have been told by those who have benefitted most from it, is 'the worst economic system...except for 'all the others'. We...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 18, 20193 min read
Neoliberalism and Community
If there is one thing neoliberalism cannot abide it is community. What is it about community that so threatens this aberrant ideology?...
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