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Political Capital Flow Management and the Importance of Yutting

24 August, 202117 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 17 Comments

I discuss how you can dismiss, acknowledge, or generalize from the particular to the general, and how this matters for the way political capital is created and accumulated. Read more (11 min, 2800 words).

A Quickie on Cancel Culture Questions

27 January, 202117 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 9 Comments

A quick, improvised post inspired by a question put to me on Twitter. Read more (4 min, 1000 words).

Fantasia for Two Voices

17 November, 202017 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 12 Comments

A dialog on how everything is. Read more (6 min, 1600 words).

Turnabout Trash: An Exercise in Lowbrow Cryptonormativism

18 August, 202017 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 11 Comments

I roleplay being a culture warrior in response to something unusually irritating, and decide not to do it again. Read more (15 min, 3800 words).

Picking Apart Eugenics

17 February, 202017 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 13 Comments

A quick-and-dirty piece on what the hell people mean by "eugenics", promted by the fallout from a tweet by Richard Dawkins.
Read more(7 min, 1700 words).

Erisology, Round Three

22 November, 201917 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 1 Comment

Third attempt at a relatively user-friendly introduction to what "erisology" means.
Read more (10 min, 2600 words).

Cat Couplings

30 October, 20196 May, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 15 Comments

"I prefer honest argumentation to dishonest rhetoric." Do I mean that rhetoric is essentially dishonest, or am I talking about the kind of rhetoric that's dishonest? That's a cat coupling. Read more (7 min, 1800 words).

Interpretation Matrix: Free Trade Benefits Everyone

12 September, 201917 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 8 Comments

Many disagreements are complicated by terms having several meanings. What if a claim is made up of more than one such term? How would we deal with that complexity? I look at an example about the benefits of free trade.
Read more (7 min, 1800 words).

The Prince and the Figurehead

19 August, 201917 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 16 Comments

When we misrepresent other people, is it a mistake or do we do it on purpose? Neither explanation feels right to me. Rather, I think we should consider that we often perform "semitentional" actions, which is the result of our agency being more distributed than we think.
Read more (6 min, 2900 words).

A Disagreement About Disagreement

26 June, 201917 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 6 Comments

I comment on a critical article and take the opportunity to further elaborate on decoupling, charity, bad faith motives and complex disagreements. Read more (17 min, 5800 words).

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