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	<title>Isegoria &#187; Bruce Charlton</title>
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		<title>But what do you want?</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2014/03/but-what-do-you-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Countless modern stories hinge on the protagonist&#8217;s response to the question, But what do you want? First two thirds is about the individual struggling under the oppressive weight of expectations and rules imposed by their background, society, church, boss, parents, spouse or even children &#8212; then comes the decisive moment in which the protagonist asks [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Disappointed with modernity</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2014/01/disappointed-with-modernity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Charlton is disappointed with modernity: I have this strong feeling, which goes way back into my early teen years — that I was very lucky to live in a period of peace, abundance, comfort; and that the existence of this &#8216;safety net&#8217; this gave me great opportunities to strive to do the best work of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Treating one Disease by Causing Another</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2013/05/treating-one-disease-by-causing-another/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treating one disease by causing another is a mainstream therapeutic strategy, Bruce Charlton notes — especially in psychiatry: Malarial Therapy of GPI (“General Paralysis of the Insane” — cerebral syphilis) Patients with incurable and fatal GPI were deliberately infected with malaria. The very high pyrexia (temperature) killed the syphilis germ, but (hopefully) not the patient. The patient [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>War in the East</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2012/12/war-in-the-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The books generally say that biological warfare is ineffective, Gregory Cochran notes &#8212; but then they would say that, wouldn’t they? There is reason to think it has worked, and it may have made a difference. Once upon a time, it was spring 1942, and the Germans were on a roll. Timoshenko had attacked from [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost a Psychosis</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2011/02/almost-a-psychosis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As societies become more complex — moving from hunting and gathering, to herding and slash-and-burn agriculture, to complex agriculture with division of labor, to modern industrialism and post-industrialism — the individuals within those societies seem to become more intelligent and less impulsive, which, Bruce Charlton says, is both a blessing and a curse: It is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce Charlton’s Concept of Political Correctness</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2011/02/bruce-charltons-concept-of-political-correctness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Charlton&#8217;s concept of political correctness, or progressivism, starts from the notion that only the intelligent can truly internalize the abstractions of PC thought — but that doesn&#8217;t make PC thought right: PC is atheistic and this worldly — but is trying to be good. For PC the ultimate evil is selfishness — therefore the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Carlylean Atheist’s God</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2011/01/the-carlylean-atheists-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I mentioned Bruce Charlton&#8217;s four tough questions for the secular right. What I didn&#8217;t realize — until Kalim Kassam mentioned it — is that Mencius Moldbug swooped in and answered them, by saying that he wants a sovereign corporation rather than a democracy, because coherent authority is not fissiparous: Radicalism, etc, are tempting because [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Western Civilization be saved?</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2011/01/should-western-civilization-be-saved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should Western Civilization be saved?, Bruce Charlton asks — even if it could be saved: It is purportedly the baseline belief of the Secular Right that the major goal of conservative or reactionary politics should be to &#8216;save&#8217; Western Civilization. Yet this is not a coherent belief, nor is it possible, nor is it desirable. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginning of Reality-Proof Morality</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/11/the-beginning-of-reality-proof-morality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Charlton presents the Abolition movement — which originated among English Quakers and spread to evangelicals, then to mass support in England — as a precursor to modern political correctness: [T]he abolition movement was ruthless in its self-confidence, its desire to impose its reality globally: slavery was abolished everywhere in the world (except for some [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Talk-Radio Host in Your Head</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/08/the-talk-radio-host-in-your-head/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our rational faculty isn’t a scientist, Jonah Lehrer says — it’s a talk-radio host: Wilson and Schooler took the 1st, 11th, 24th, 32nd, and 44th best tasting jams (at least according to Consumer Reports) and asked the students for their opinion. In general, the preferences of the college students closely mirrored the preferences of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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