Sunday, 24 October 2021

Calibrating measures of success (and failure) as a dissident intellectual.

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A lot of these people have ended up with a much smaller audience than myself… despite the fact that they really are pandering to the crowd (...
Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Just the facts: a follow-up to Vegan Footsoldier's Boast that He Has More Subscribers than I do.

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Here's the screen-shot of the particular boast this was prepared in response to (below).
Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Getting hate mail from a fellow vegan youtuber: "Vegan Footsoldier".

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[Footsoldier writes:] I am indeed totally unaware of your previous videos on util [i.e., the critique of Utilitarianism ] because I haven...
Monday, 18 October 2021

I am not a nice guy, but I'm nicer than these guys. I am not a tough guy, but I'm tougher than these guys.

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 This was in response to two different videos posted to my youtube channel in close succession: (1)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy7yohk...
Monday, 11 October 2021

Elitism: My Changing Approach to "Micro-Fame".

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[Note: a few other mean-spirited (and seemingly crazy) messages have been omitted, to leap to the relatively "happy ending" to the...
Sunday, 10 October 2021

You do realize the intellectual caliber of criticism I'm facing here.

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[I've put the messages from the "fan" in italics, just to make the contrast between the two authors easier to see.] ——————————...
Thursday, 23 September 2021

Remember 2013? My Final Judgement on Buddhism.

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This was an email sent to a "professional Buddhist" layperson: someone who is neither a monk nor a scholar, but who has a lifetime...
Thursday, 29 July 2021

I am (still) working on the book full time (i.e., No More Manifestos).

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I had thought I was at the stage of final editing --just removing a few typos, etc.-- but I now can read the book as a whole (from start to ...
Tuesday, 13 July 2021

Don't Make Excuses for People who Make Excuses: the Slogan, the T-Shirt, the Lifestyle.

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Did I coin this slogan?  According to Google, I did: this is one of many (MANY!) turns of phrase that the internet has no record of before I...
Monday, 28 June 2021

Political freedom of speech: if this isn't permissible… WHAT IS?

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