A quick announcement of my return, and intentions for forthcoming episodes...

A consideration of Michael Polanyi's tiered ontology and its implications for positivism...

A reflection on the hazards of myopia which sets in with the birth of scientific perspective in Galileo as glosses by Herbert Marcuse...

A review of the major themes in Chapter 5 of One Dimensional Man in which Marcuse tracks the development of formal logic as leading to a logic of domination...

Some thoughts on the grounding of optimism in the indeterminacy of human essence or nature described by existentialism...

Some quick thoughts on the connection between optimism and intelligence

A recap of some salient themes in the third chapter of Herbert Marcuse's "One Dimensional Man"...

A very brief recap of the major theme of the second chapter of Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man, namely, the technological suffocation of the political by subordinating freedom to pleasure...

An examination on the themes in he books introduction, looking at how emotional intensity can blind us to how we conspire in the creation of the very problems we seek to solve...