Francesco Politi | Debunking Reality One Rant at a Time

The term ‘history’ refers to communities, states and geographical areas. They would have us believe that there is such a thing as Black History. But not just because you can coin a new term you can turn that object into existence. This is yet another ideological lie, as we have seen there are many. There…

Suppose you could have a conversation with God, or a god, or your deity, whatever. Which would you say would be the one question to ask? Why did you create me? I don’t think so. Me? My only question would be: who created you? In other words: how can creation stop at the first deity…

The more I study, the less I know. The less I know, the worse I feel. The worse I feel, the less I like you.

In one word: economy. In two words: contemporary economy. It is beneficial – if not essential – to contemporary economy to make use of these new, readily-available masses as consumers. Those very people who were once used to propel past forms of economy in a very different guise. To enslave them – along with anyone…

A different type of post today. Not a rant by any stretch. Something positively funny, for a change. I’ll assume I’ll be excused for the the catchy title, designed to lure you into reading this post. However, the actual content isn’t that far from it. For the rest of this post, I’ll just use my…

I watched, the other day, Network, a 1976 film with Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway – among others – telling the story about a fictional UBS TV network programme and the struggle for securing TV shares and ratings. This film is remarkable in many ways. The aspect that interests me here, however, hasn’t to do…

The idea that you can build a machine that has self-awareness, consciousness and beliefs like humans do, is fallacious. It is not unlike the classical philosophical urge of asking questions formulated in relation to individuals as singles, abstracted from their species and not regarded within the Theory of Evolution, that is, at some stage of…

I have been thinking about making a list of the most corrupt words of our language that most easily can be deployed to support this or that ideology (i.e. a vision of nature, or of the world, as a conceptual foundation of one or another vision of society). For now, I’ll just jot down a…

So much has been written about these three concepts. Obviously too much and, obviously, that makes me a late offender. But I’m not publishing this for a profit or lustre. I’m just ranting in the end, you know. So, they – in the high temples of philosophy – go about this triptych with endless statements…