I recently had a brush with people trying to use morality to justify their closed minds. It looks like calling things “problematic” and implying that you’re part of the problem for not abstaining from it like they are. The problematizing of all is a softer version of far more sinister patterns.

by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from spiritualsoap.substack.com

Perpetually Uninspired: Hollow Art, Sour Souls. Where does the art we need come from when the art world itself is part of the cultural moment troubling us? Instead, most art today leaves me overwhelmed, unnerved, or uninspired.

by Chipit to /s/Art from spiritualsoap.substack.com

Weird & Güd - In Defense of Attacking Science. "I’m a fan of science. Part of my time in university was spent studying experiment design and interpreting research results. Knowing how something works often makes you equally aware of how it doesn’t."

by Chipit to /s/science from spiritualsoap.substack.com

There are the unabashedly authoritarian arguments for censorship based on “bad words” and “unsafe” ideas. The case of Leopold and Loeb is a perfect example of why society should never be built around the dangers posed by its most depraved.

by Chipit to /s/censorship from spiritualsoap.substack.com

When we can’t tolerate the freedom of others to believe in what we hate, it’s not others, but their freedom that we become intolerant of. A society where everyone is forced into agreement may enforce your views today, but it won’t be free, and neither will you.

by Chipit to /s/censorship from spiritualsoap.substack.com

For most of its history, an innate distrust of the man who could do nothing with his hands but only with his words was closely tied to a distrust of the very class of people early Americans fled. Yet today, that upper class whose hands are never dirtied are home-grown.

by Chipit to /s/Education from spiritualsoap.substack.com

If you want to build a different world than the one you have now, the biggest obstacle is that world. China’s shining communist future hinged on eradicating China’s less-shiny, less-communist past. How can you usher in an era of equality with statues still standing from a time of inequality?

by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from spiritualsoap.substack.com