Today is the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. Apparently. The "bourgeois" revolution was "progressive" for its time. And...here we are.
Goodbye!
Saturday, July 4, 2026
Dedunking the drama
Eagerly awaiting the next round in the recent ("recent") drama between "Professor" Dave and Dan "Dedunking". I know, I know. I´m a sinner. As in guilty pleasure. Might have karmic consequences later!
En liten påminnelse
Från SVT Nyheter idag:
Efter den uppmärksammade våldtäktsdomen - FN ändrar sina riktlinjer
Aftonbladets reaktion förra året:
It´s over
Ten minutes in, Thomas Sheridan claims that people who hate on him on the interwerbs essentially drop dead. Maybe from cancer. The reason? Curses bouncing back on the person uttering them. So whatever you do, fam, don´t insult Tyzo Ward or Barry Drewmore!
Of course, pro-vaxxers probably have an alternative explanation...
Sister Shroom
Apparently, this atheist chic takes magical mushrooms. She proceeds proposing a natural explanation to the weird patterns appearing in psychedelic visions. Interesting, to be sure. But note that her explanation is perfectly compatible with pantheism. Here we go again: "spiritual atheism" is either shame-faced spirituality or a quasi-religous LARP. Or perhaps both.
Or as a sixties hippie would no doubt have put it: Dude!
No-nonsense atheism?
Ultra-super-duper ateista Matt Dillahunty calls out "spiritual atheism", arguing that it´s an oxymoron since spirituality is simply nonsense. But note that even my man Matt de facto believes in...psychotherapy.
The second video is c/o Britt Hartley and clearly shows her peculiar eclecticism. On the one hand, the universe is meaningless, free will doesn´t exist, there is no soul or "self", und so weiter. She even calls herself a nihilist! On the other hand, this is apparently untolerable, so Hartley says atheists should "steal from religion" and become "spiritual" anyway. Which includes both meditation, ritual, community-building, et cetera. Note also the references to psychedelic drugs.
There is also a discussion on patriarchy and gender differences in relation to spirituality. Here we go again...
In other words: atheism (as in consistent atheist materialism) doesn´t work even for atheists. Conclusion has been drawn.
Friday, July 3, 2026
Deconstructing atheism
An atheist content-creator calling out the really existing atheist subculture online. I noted some of these things myself. For instance, the rather obvious fact that the US atheist milieu is dominated by young White middle-class males. Or the dogmatic, cock-sure and "fundamentalist" character of much atheist discourse, which sounds like zealous Christianity in reverse.
Recent research suggests that there is also a divide between "closed" and "open" atheists, the latter being agnostic and more positive towards spirituality. At least online, it seems that particular space is mostly female. In other words, the divide between male / male-coded atheists and female / female-coded religious believers is reproduced *within atheism itself*.
If you can even call the so-called "spiritual atheists" real atheists at all - on *that* score, the dogmatic atheist-materialists may have a point. If you start (re)exploring spirituality, you will most certainly end up in some kind of non-atheist-coded milieu, given how the terms "atheism", "religion" and "spirituality" are usually defined in the modern Western world. Compare how difficult it is (in practice) to combine metaphysical dualism with atheism!
Otherwise, I was struck by how stereotypically female-coded this content-creator is. She feels "exhausted" by male discourse, wants to have community even with Christian women, isn´t interested in rationally proving Christianity wrong, and so on. Make of that what you wish.
Naiva poeters sällskap
Det var länge sedan Göran Greider hade något intressant att säga. Flera årtionden sedan, faktiskt. I sin senaste krönika i Aftonbladet (länk nedan) säger han att vi måste lära oss leva med ett imperialistiskt Ryssland?! Kan ju bli lite svårt om Ryssland invaderar sina grannländer, eller hur? Utsträcker Greider samma erkännande även till USA? Sedan skriver han att Ryssland i framtiden kanske kommer att bli demokratiskt. Visst, och Månen är gjord av grön ost.
Greider gör även en märklig jämförelse mellan Ryssland (?) och den invasiva växtarten parkslide, som han menar har "demoniserats" och kan bekämpas med "diplomati". Vilken tur att naiva poeter varken styr vår försvarspolitik eller miljöpolitiken. Gjorde nämligen en liten djupdykning i parkslide och varför arten anses vara invasiv. Verkar vara en väldigt bra metafor för "folkutbyte", måste jag säga...
De andra länkarna är till Naturvårdsverket. Här är förresten ett citat:
>>>Parksliden kan konkurrera ut andra växter på platser där den etablerarat sig och bildar ibland rena monokulturer. Detta kan förändra livsmiljöerna för arter som groddjur, kräldjur, fåglar och däggdjur mycket negativt.
>>>Parksliden har även negativa effekter på ekosystemtjänster. Områden kan helt växa igen och möjligheten till markanvändning begränsas; det går inte längre att promenera i områden och trädgårdar kan inte längre odlas.
>>>De kraftiga rötterna kan också tränga in i byggnader och vattenledningar men i Sverige är detta fortfarande ovanligt. Problemet kan framförallt uppstå i äldre byggnader där det redan finns sprickor och håligheter för parksliden att ta sig in genom.
Bekämpa både krig och parkslide med diplomati
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