CitizenCyborg
@citizencyborg
Sociologist, left social democrat antifascist with technoprogressive tendencies. Exec Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.org @citizencyborg on Substack & Threads.
European federalism is evidence that democratic world federalism is possible.
There is no reason to criminalize plural marriage in a liberal society.
When you are winning so hard, and so smooth about it, that your opponents come after you for "arrogance."
Buddhist Myanmar (hostile to Muslims) right up there with Muslim Bangladesh in intolerance, while Buddhist Taiwan and secular China among most tolerant
Even the rich suffer from living in unequal societies with broken safety nets. And the fascists the rich support to protect them from the poors eventually also screw the rich.
This is puzzling. There is no basis for either divine Creationism or intelligent design in canonical Buddhism. In fact Buddhism specifically rejected Vedic claims of divine creation of the universe. (see the Aggañña Sutta)
If the trade off for teens was social media for less booze and church, maybe social media addiction looks a lot better
In a Dem +15 election a lot of the Repuglican gerrymanders become "dummymanders," handing more districts to the Dems not fewer. They are making the blue wave bigger.
Happy Mothers Day to all the moms in my life, and a big thank you to all our foremothers. We should be making it easier to have children.
This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the role of disgust in morality. Neuroscience suggests that feelings of disgust underlie many moral judgments, especially in the treatment of sexuality. Can we suppress disgust? Should we? prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/disgust/
56 years ago today, four dead in Ohio. Students protesting the bombing of Cambodia shot at Kent State University by the National Guard.
Most political killings in the U.S. are committed by white right-wing men
Technoprogressive pols are popping up like Spring flowers poulos.house