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Kory James
Jul 2410 min read
The Purpose of the Universe: An Argument for Objective Meaning
How can the isolated singularity of the Big Bang result in time and space, in consciousness, in everything we have today?
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Kory James
Jul 28, 20234 min read
Oppenheimer: Technological Determinism & The (Nuclear) Power of Symbols
The Urn of Invention: Imagine, if you will, a faded urn of substantial size containing within it marble spheres of varying color, each...
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Kory James
Jan 12, 20235 min read
Amused to Death: How Entertainment Will Lead to our Downfall
“No Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As [Huxley] saw it, people will come to love their...
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Kory James
Oct 13, 20224 min read
Tolkien and the Long Defeat
Middle-Earth is a realm in perpetual decline. One beginning in benevolent magic and bliss yet succumbing over time to mundanity and shadow.
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Kory James
Aug 5, 20223 min read
Lucid Dreaming: How Inception Gets It Wrong
Let me start out by saying I’m a sucker for any Christopher Nolan movie, Inception included. Nolan’s capacity to condense complex,...
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Kory James
Jul 22, 20223 min read
Brave New World: Our Dystopia of Comfort
If asked what the most prophetic dystopian fiction classic of all time is, most would likely point to Orwell’s 1984 or Bradbury’s...
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Kory James
Jun 2, 20224 min read
Everything Everywhere All at Once: The Many-Worlds Interpretation and Existentialism vs. Nihilism
It’s been a while since a trip to the movie theatre left me like this. Eyes teared up, jaw sore from laughing, and wonder-induced...
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Kory James
Apr 28, 20223 min read
The Ring of Gyges: Should the Internet be Transparent?
It’s a hot topic, and temperature’s only rising: should the Internet stay true to its founding virtues of decentralized mass anonymity or...
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