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Kory James

Jul 2410 min

The Purpose of the Universe: An Argument for Objective Meaning

How can the isolated singularity of the Big Bang result in time and space, in consciousness, in everything we have today?

Kory James

Jul 28, 20234 min

Oppenheimer: Technological Determinism & The (Nuclear) Power of Symbols

The Urn of Invention: Imagine, if you will, a faded urn of substantial size containing within it marble spheres of varying color, each...

Kory James

Jan 12, 20235 min

Amused to Death: How Entertainment Will Lead to our Downfall

“No Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As [Huxley] saw it, people will come to love their...

Kory James

Oct 13, 20224 min

Tolkien and the Long Defeat

Middle-Earth is a realm in perpetual decline. One beginning in benevolent magic and bliss yet succumbing over time to mundanity and shadow.

Kory James

Aug 5, 20223 min

Lucid Dreaming: How Inception Gets It Wrong

Let me start out by saying I’m a sucker for any Christopher Nolan movie, Inception included. Nolan’s capacity to condense complex,...

Kory James

Jul 22, 20223 min

Brave New World: Our Dystopia of Comfort

If asked what the most prophetic dystopian fiction classic of all time is, most would likely point to Orwell’s 1984 or Bradbury’s...

Kory James

Jun 2, 20224 min

Everything Everywhere All at Once: The Many-Worlds Interpretation and Existentialism vs. Nihilism

It’s been a while since a trip to the movie theatre left me like this. Eyes teared up, jaw sore from laughing, and wonder-induced...

Kory James

Apr 28, 20223 min

The Ring of Gyges: Should the Internet be Transparent?

It’s a hot topic, and temperature’s only rising: should the Internet stay true to its founding virtues of decentralized mass anonymity or...

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