Author: Ashley Messinger
Date: April 28, 2020
20% of the Saudi parliament was female in 2019, and it has been significantly above 0% since the turn of the millennium. Most of their universities are coed, and some are women-only. Apparently certain high-profile individuals failed to realise it until this year, even though much of this information is accessible through a source as […]
Author: Ashley Messinger
Date: February 25, 2020
When all is said and done, environmentalists are guaranteed to be disappointed. Nature is fucked. Your recent ancestors who lived in the earlier half of the 20th century may have farmed land that nature has now reclaimed. What happened? Labour was cheap then. People were willing to work for whatever money they could get. Since […]
Author: Ashley Messinger
Date: February 17, 2020
Ethicists tend to view issues such as abortion through a utilitarian lens strictly, which has always struck me as odd since there is no reason to suppose a priori that any monoaxiomatic moral system is true. Most people do not seem to need their morality to be governed by a single all-encompassing axiom such as […]
Author: Ashley Messinger
Date: January 8, 2020
All experiences whether good or ill, in their essence, can be equated to the inter-relations between external stimuli and the internal states of consciousness created by our brains and, in an ultimate sense, by our genes. Most people will concede that no amount of overpowering stimuli, no amount of pretty sunsets, will bring a smile […]
Author: Ashley Messinger
Date: January 5, 2020
In 2018, the redoubtable Carl Benjamin, for reasons that are not clear to anyone and not least to him, paid for membership to a British political party that was struggling to stay relevant at the time and is now dead. He was joined by several others – namely: Mark Meechan, Paul Joseph Watson, and Milo […]