Essay
Created Risk, Inherited Risk, and the Moral Line We Keep Erasing (A Society That Tells the Truth: Chapter 3)
The Distinction Modern Rules Refuse to Make One of the quiet failures of modern rule making is the refusal to clearly distinguish between risk created by choice and risk inherited by existence. When this distinction collapses, responsibility becomes confused, guilt spreads outward indiscriminately, and ordinary behavior is treated as morally suspect. This is not a minor philosophical oversight. It is the foundation beneath many of the injustices people now experience in public life, from transportation and health policy to everyday regulation and enforcement. When systems fail to differentiate between what someone causes and what simply exists, moral clarity erodes at every level.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Critique
A Lesson Not Learned
At the time of this article's writing, there is a rather strong push against President Trump in the United States. The reason for this pushback is due to a lot of factors that happened early in the year 2026, and I don't have time to go through all of them right now. I will talk about some of them, but more importantly, what I want to talk about is why this phenomenon is happening, how it's happened before, and why it's important to remember what happened for the future.
By ChampionElCid6 months ago in Critique
Cold Shoulder
Tow the line. Stay active. Don’t miss too many days, or you'll be out of the circle of trust. You're thinking about college, right? Maybe the club popped into your head, or a social circle. Maybe it’s social media that makes you hear those words in your head. None of the above. Church. That has been the one thing that has failed us all along.
By Alexandra Grant6 months ago in Critique
Kristi Noem's Never-Ending Saga:
Kristi Noem's Never-Ending Saga: Tactical Failure, Not Moral Failure Meda Parameswara Reddy, Ph.D. Kristi Noem's fall from Cabinet secretary to national punchline was not the story most people think it was. It was not a story about cruelty, or corruption, or ideological extremism. It was a story about a capable, tough, operationally effective leader who could not stop getting in her own way — and who paid for that failure with a career that deserved a better ending than the one it got.
By Meda Parameswara Reddy Ph.D.6 months ago in Critique
The Bureaucracy of Nothing: When Procedure Replaces Reality
In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson presents Fedland as a grotesque remnant of state authority, a bureaucratic afterlife in which the former power of government has collapsed but its rituals of surveillance, procedure, discipline, and obedience continue with absurd intensity. The result is not simply satire of administrative inefficiency but a philosophical image of power after meaning has departed. The state no longer governs the world, yet it still governs the gesture, the parking space, the staircase, the workstation, the memo, the bathroom break, and the body of the worker. What remains is not sovereignty but procedure, not authority but compliance, not purpose but measurement.
By Peter Ayolov6 months ago in Critique
WHAT'S GOING ON?! Chinese Scientists Are Also Dying Mysteriously.. Sparking More Wild Conspiracy Theories!
So, this latest spate of conspiracisms involves scientists with mysterious deaths in the United States, China, and elsewhere. What is happening to them? Are governments trying to stop rational thought and investigation in our world or what?
By Skyler Saunders6 months ago in Critique
Brian McKnight files lawsuit against son, ex-wife, Marc Lamont Hill and others over ‘smear campaign’ against him
Again, you’re nobody ‘til somebody sues you. Brian Mczknight is going on a tear suing Urban One, his ex-wife, his son, Marc Lamont Hill, and Tasha K.
By Skyler Saunders6 months ago in Critique
Apocalypse as Argument
Apocalypse as Argument: A Critical Review of the SNEAKO–Jiang–Dugin Dialogue The long-form discussion hosted by SNEAKO with Jiang X and Aleksandr Dugin unfolds as an ambitious attempt to synthesize theology, geopolitics, and contemporary cultural anxiety into a single explanatory framework. Framed initially as a structured exploration of eschatology—the study of end-times across religious traditions—the conversation gradually expands into a sweeping diagnosis of modern civilization, touching on everything from Enlightenment philosophy and global finance to media manipulation, war, and metaphysical evil. What emerges is not merely an interview but a layered narrative in which apocalypse becomes not an event, but an argument—a way of interpreting reality itself.
By Peter Ayolov7 months ago in Critique
Beyond the Tupperware Trap
There’s a scent that follows the fitness industry around, and if you’ve been in it long enough, you probably don’t even notice it anymore. It’s not just the smell of iron, rubber mats, or dried sweat. It’s the lingering aroma of cold broccoli and steamed chicken wafting from a plastic Tupperware container in the middle of a gym lobby.
By Feliks Karić7 months ago in Critique
You Brought a Pen, I Brought Glasgow
So here's the thing. I have another piece waiting in the wings of my brain about challenges on Vocal and in general—about the thoughts we have on winning and losing. My own thoughts as well. But I remembered this challenge from Harper. And given my love for ISIS—irony, sarcasm, being an iconoclast and subversive—I could not resist. Yeah. I dropped an ISIS acronym joke. Let’s look at what Harper has asked of us:
By Paul Stewart7 months ago in Critique
