Category: politics
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The Obsession with Hierarchy
“There is always a bigger fish.” “The natural order.” “The top of the food chain.” Let us talk about the “natural order” of things.Community is not intrinsically hierarchical. Yes, there are people who are more adept at carrying out tasks more than others. But hierarchy implies such a thing as an “ideal” leading the top.…
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“Someone else’s problem…Not my responsibility.”
The quest for profit has normalized a lot of mentalities across the board. One of the most troubling, for me, is territoriality. The territory has not become something that is marked by a trail of urine unlike in nature but by a trail of cash. This is most evident in contractually binding responsibilities. Now let…
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Who Watches the Watchmen?
The nature of the Maltese language is wonderful. It says a lot of what is at the roots of being Maltese. It has one foot divided between gothic and romance languages, roots from an imperialist way of life that translates into language by having the subject exert its nature over the object(“my heart”), and semitic…
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Silence Expanded
Censorship is counterproductive We all know that learning is an encounter with the “other”. Knowledge is gained by an encounter with something other than one’s own self. By meeting differences. This is also on a behavioral level – how can one know what NOT to do when that thing that should not be done is…
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The (De)volution of Capitalism
The primary focus of capitalism is the generation of wealth with the least government regulation possible, with each private entity exerting complete governance over its means of production. As established before, this overlaps with socialism in a move from decentralization, but renders private the acquired means (hence, privatizations). Therefore, access to the means of production…
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Bodily Autonomy
A phrase we have heard quite a lot rather periodically, really. Sometimes I wonder if it is yet another rhetorical bomb we are thrown to simply divide people. However, I feel, it is not something we should shy away from discussing especially when we toy with the idea of abortion and other taboo subjects. You…
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