Ethereal Insights

Photograph of the Atlas globe Will the ceasefire in the Middle East last? Tuesday – October 14, 2025 While I'm not a fortune teller I do believe that I can make some predictions about the Middle East, in this case the Israel-Palestine conflict. Let's just look into the history of Palestine. The State of Israel was officially established in 1947 on the behest of the newly founded United Nations organization following WWII. Of course, creating this nation-state in Palestine didn't happen easily or overnight, and a lot of force, violence, and war was required in order to really establish a Jewish foothold in Palestine. Of course, there have always been Jews in Palestine, Israel, or Canaan as it's referred to as in the Old Testament. I am an anti-nationalist so I do not support the creation of Israel or indeed the creation of any states, particularly nation-states, but that doesn't really have a real world impact; Israel is a nation-state that exists today just like any...

Picture of baby playing by Anna Mysłowska-Kiczek Are designer babies a good thing? Monday – October 13, 2025 The short answer to that question in the heading is yes, designer babies are a good thing, but they're only a good thing within the very human confines of the material domain. Why should a man wish harm and hardship on his prodigy? Should a man expect to be treated with respect if he is short? No, not in the material domain, and this problem will only intensify as time goes on, and that's why I believe that any man, even a beastly man, that claims to have good intentions in regards to himself and his prodigy should consider this step towards post-humanism, because let's not kid ourselves here: while designer babies are inevitable, they're only a step towards the post-human future. Indeed, the plebeian horde may be defined by a certain and characteristic ugliness, and ugliness that can only mean one thing: nature, for anything that makes itself apparent in the wor...

Photograph of the Atlas globe Are there fewer wars in modern times? Sunday – October 12, 2025 The short answer is yes, but the long answer is as usual more complicated. There are indeed fewer wars between states (interstate wars), but there are likely more wars within states (intrastate wars, i.e. civil wars), and civil wars are often more brutal and deadly than interstate wars, perhaps with the exception of the world wars, but it should be noted that those wars didn't directly kill every casualty; a lot of people perished indirectly in WWII in particular due to the political mass mobilization of hatred in that war. But generally it does seem to be the case that the political mobilization of hatred is somewhat more acute, though on a far smaller scale, during civil wars, and often a civil war can be fought down to the street level. Really, a civil war is when the societal stratification has become so acute and inflamed that violence inevitably has to erupt, and this has surely been...