Ethereal Insights

An art of dragons on a ceil in Kyoto ( 建仁寺 ) Sunday: Is the future Asian? | September 7, 2025 I want to continue with my mini-mini-series on the future or what the future will be like and today I intend to cover the question about/of Asia, or really the Asian tiger or dragon. But first let's refine the heading a little bit better: what do I mean by Asia? First and foremost, Asia is the biggest continent in both size and population and I believe 60% of the world's population live in Asia and I also believe the majority of that 60% lives within a diameter that covers the axis of New Delhi and Shanghai. In yet other more words: the world revolves around Asia and will only continue to keep revolving around Asia, and from a completely material point of view the world is now entering a new cycle as I covered the other day : the world is revolving around the western world still, but that will change and Europe and North America are dying out. It is therefore easy to conclude that the...

Nanjinglu Street, Huangpu, Shanghai ( 上海市 ) Saturday: My views on the future – September 6, 2025 It's fancy to talk about the future in terms of a bright future (a good future) or a dark future (a bad future), and I don't quite understand the point in doing that, and I also don't quite understand what people mean by a "good" or a "bad" future. First and foremost: what is a good or a bad future, and secondly if something is good for me, does that mean that it has to be good for everyone else, and conversely if something is bad for me, does that mean that it has to be bad for everyone else? For me, trying to figure out or rather gain some insight into the future isn't about being an optimist or a pessimist, it's about being a realist: trying to actually figure out what the future will look like and be like, not because I can know but because as a human being I like to try to understand how the world actually works, and that's hard to do if I am...

Tibetan depiction of the Black Vajrapani ( वज्रपाणि ) Friday: What does it mean to judge other men? | September 6, 2025 In my post about discrimination I stated that for a man to functionally interact with the world, specifically the human context, he needs to clearly prioritize those aspects of life in the material domain that brings him better circumstances, and that this ordering of the world was the fundamental foundation for the strictly hierarchical way in which the world makes itself apparent : indeed without this ability to order the world into sense, to make sense of the world, man would invariably fall into mental illness as the boundaries of the world would fade into each other and the material order would fall apart completely. Indeed, even the most liberal men, the proponents of the humanist axiom , would and do discriminate with great diligence against those men that object to the tenants of the liberal and the material order, for they recognize that they must kee...

Liberal Unionist poster depicting the British Bulldog Thursday: What are Post-Political Units (PPUs)? | September 4, 2025 Before I can answer that question let's explore post-politics again briefly: post-politics is really my vision for a world beyond the medium of mass politics or really mass mobilized opinion, and such a world used to exist , particularity prior to the 20th century, and even more so prior to the advent of the modern nation-state , in the 18th century, as the fundamental unit of political organization. Most men today, particularly in the imperial core , would take the existence of the nation-state and mass politics for granted, for with the nation-state comes the citizenship and the citizenship, the relation between the individual and the state, is the carrier of the humanist axiom : with the citizenship each man becomes an atomized individual and all the rights of man, in full accordance with the humanist axiom , applies to him under the law set forth by other ...

Photograph of a Parochial School Wednesday: My views on conservatism – September 3, 2025 Conservatism, as the word implies, means to conserve, or rather it means that one seeks to conserve something, often the status quo, such in the case of politics , but also when it comes to other aspects of life. Verily, when you really get down to it, it's actually quite impossible to separate politics from life: indeed life is politics and all decisions in life are an act of politics. I am of course a proponent of anti-politics, or really post-politics , but even I recognize that it's not quite possible to never be political, and what I mean by post-political is not to never be political or rather not to never engage in politics: post-political simply means moving beyond or really past the 20th century junction of mass politics , where the medium of change was and continues to be the mobilization of opinion, often derived not from good reason or even ideological principles, but from the e...

Sino-Tibetan depiction of Lohan ( 十八羅漢 ) Tuesday: My views on Antinatalism – September 2, 2025 Is life worth living? Or is perhaps life worth living but not starting? These are some of the questions that proponents of the philosophy of "Antinatalism" deal with. First and foremost: what does antinatalism mean? Anti is a prefix that essentially means to oppose something: it is Greek in origin and means to oppose. Natal is a Latin word that describes someone's birth or really to birth, which if you put 2 and 2 together you would understand that anti-natalism means to oppose having children, and of course ism is just the suffix describing a distinctive practice or school of thought, such in this case the philosophy of opposing creating more life. There are a couple of reasons as to why some people claim to be of this persuasion, and the most common reason seems to stem from the truth that life, life in the material domain , is mostly suffering , or rather it is mostly living ...