The Anatomy of Radical Movements
A movement seeking fundamental change can be visualised as a Mayan pyramid, with each tier comprising a theatre of war, or plane of operation. At the top of the pyramid are the philosophers, who develop the theoretical bases for the movement.
Equality: The Way to a Meaningless Life
By Alex Kurtagic In a book he wrote some twenty years ago, Jonathan Bowden said that meaning originates in difference, or inequality. This interests me because, prior to discovering the text, I made a very similar argument in an essay, published about a year ago, where I attacked the idea—almost universally accepted in the West—that equality is a moral good. My argument was that the nature of value is both qualitative (subjective) and quantitative (objective). Qualitative…